New Zealand director Lee Tamahori, 75, died on Nov. 7. Tamahori worked his way up as an assistant director and in TV before his first big hit, the dark Once Were Warriors (1994) brought him international fame. He went on to direct Mulholland Falls, Along Came a Spider, Die Another Day, The Devil’s Double, The Patriarch, Billions, The Convert, and an episode of The Sopranos. He became unwillingly known for his kinky private life—he and his girlfriend were into cross-dressing and fetish clubs—which became public when Tamahori was accidentally too nice to an undercover cop in 2006 (he got off with probation; it’s not known if the cop got off at all). Around the time of his 2011 The Devil's Double, about Saddam Hussein's son Uday, Tamahori said that "All film is ultimately entertainment, regardless whether it's The Battle of Algiers or a documentary about penguins. It is all there to manipulate us. I don't want people to leave thinking they have the truth. What they have instead is an illusion of the truth."
