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Peter Jackson  

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Director / Screenwriter / Producer / Cinematographer
1961 - 
Born October 31, New Zealand
Key Production Countries: New Zealand, USA, Germany 
Key Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Epic, Horror Comedy, Fantasy Adventure, Sword-and-Sorcery
Key Collaborators: Fran Walsh (Screenwriter/Producer), Jamie Selkirk (Editor/Producer), Grant Major (Production Designer), Philippa Boyens (Screenwriter), Andrew Lesnie (Cinematographer), Elijah Wood (Leading Player), Ian McKellen (Leading Player), Liv Tyler (Leading Player), Barrie M. Osborne (Producer), Howard Shore (Composer)
Recommended: Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Worth a Look: The Frighteners (1996), The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Links: [ IMDB ] [ All-Movie Guide ] [ TCMDB ] [ Senses of Cinema: Great Directors ] [ Film Reference ] [ The Bastards Have Landed: Official Peter Jackson Fan Club ] [ The Peter Jackson Guide ] [ Your Mother Ate My Dog! ] [ Hollywood Reporter Interview (2004) ] [ DGA Interview ] [ Dark Horizons Interview (2005) ] [ Time Out Interview (2005) ]
Books: [ Peter Jackson: From Prince of Splatter to Lord of the Rings ] [ Peter Jackson: From Gore to Mordor ] [ Peter Jackson In Perspective: The Power Behind Cinema's The Lord Of The Rings ] [ Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson's the Lord of the Rings ]
DVD's: [ Amazon ]
1,000 Greatest Films: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), King Kong (2005)
 
Heavenly Creatures (1994)The Frighteners (1996)The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
 
     
  "Anarchic New Zealand-born director who has made a virtue of the title of his first film - Bad Taste. A few years earlier his films might have been condemned in a body as video nasties - but festival and critical approval has brought recognition and (almost) respectability to Jackson's charnel-house work, a world in which slicing someone's head off with a meat cleaver represents a tame demise...Lord knows where Jackson goes from here, but it's going to be an exciting ride." - David Quinlan (Quinlan's Film Directors, 1999)  
     
  "...Just realize that Jackson has rediscovered the serial epic and given it an energy and dread not known since Fritz Lang's Nibelungen. Maybe that's what he does next - Meet the Nibelungen!." - David Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002)  
     
  "Jackson's achievement in staying put at home and persuading the Hollywood money to come to him bodes well for his country's film industry. Most successful New Zealand directors have used their first major hit as a springboard for Hollywood. Jackson, remaining true to his roots, has set up his own production base (Wingnut Films) in his home town of Wellington. "I choose to stay in New Zealand earning a fraction of what I could make in Los Angeles because I want to do whatever I feel like doing...The freedom that I have in New Zealand is worth millions of dollars to me."" - Philip Kemp (Film Reference)  
     
 
 
 
 

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