Exposure: Peter Jackson
Between his earliest low-budget films and later studio-sponsored efforts, New Zealand-born filmmaker Peter Jackson has blended inventive visual effects (sometimes hilariously over-the-top in nature) and photographic sleight of hand to portray apparitions, both ghastly and ghostly. These treatments have varied greatly down through the years: Bad Taste, Meet the Feebles and Braindead show grotesque horrors through a darkly-comedic glass and a “home movie” approach to filmmaking that is utterly unique. Heavenly Creatures, by contrast, captured the fantasies of teenaged girls in a delicate, even artful approach that was both giddy and ethereal. Jackson’s acclaimed The Lord of the Rings trilogy, along with King Kong (all shot by Andrew Lesnie, ACS, ASC), boldly reaffirmed his ability and inclination to depict fantastic realms within a deeply felt drama, human or otherwise. With his new adaptation of the Alice Sebold novel, The Lovely Bones, Jackson explores a much different “middle earth” than any J.R.R. Tolkien imagined; a Pennsylvania suburb in 1973, where the ghastly takes the form of a serial killer of young girls, and the ghostly the spirit of his most recent victim trapped between life and what lies beyond.
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Tom Stern, ASC and Clint Eastwood re-imagine the rugby match that made a nation. By Bob Fisher
ICG December 2009
FEATURES
INVICTUS
DP Tom Stern, ASC
By Bob Fisher
THE LOVELY BONES
DP Andrew Lesnie, ASC, ACS
By Kevin Martin
BURN NOTICE
DP William Wages, ASC
By Pauline Rogers
GENERATION NEXT
By Margot Carmichael Lester
FILM SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL
By Joseph Lawson
EXPOSURE: Peter Jackson
DEEP FOCUS: Tim Orr
FLASH FRAME: Annika Iltis
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