The man who made De Niro pray and Irons suffer finally gets interrogated.
Direction
Griffith lets Joffé hang himself with his own pretension—respectfully.
Production
Rare archival footage of The Mission and Killing Fields productions.
Director
Daniel Griffith
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Joffé was originally hired to direct The Killing Fields after producer David Puttnam saw his BBC play 'The Spongers'—about welfare cuts, not genocide.
The documentary argues Joffé's fall coincided with Hollywood's pivot from 70mm prestige to CGI spectacle—basically, Jurassic Park killed him.
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