Parting Glances
(Film.com)
Working on a $300,000 budget, with 16-millimeter equipment …Sherwood handles every aspect of Parting Glances with the talent and confidence of a pro…you can't help wondering why most films can't move this well or even look this good. Working with a photographer, Jacek Laskus, who never allows Parting Glances to look cheap…
Garden of Redemption
(Variety, Ken Eisner)
...and the lensing and design are far richer than the $4 million budget suggests.
Square Dance
(HR Sundance Film Festival Review, Duane Byrge)
Of particular power and a simple eloquence in this Michael Nezmith presented film, is the sharp eye of photographer Jacek Laskus: scysrapered Fort Worth is often seen through the vantages of power poles and wild untamed desert foliage, which rustles as a visual metaphor for the untamed spirits of this new city’s fringe inhabitants.
Whole Shebang
(Variety, Eddie Cockrell)
Tech credits are incandescent, with Jacek Laskus' camera capturing both the dreariness of the Bazinni compound (Vancouver subbed for NJ) and the bright colors of the fireworks (a fireworks competish was actually shot in Naples) with equal pungency.
(IMDB) Giancarlo Giannini, Stanley Tucci and Bridget Fonda as well as the supporting cast were terrific. A great unexpected ending, beautifully shot…
The Twilight Zone Rod Serling’s Lost Classics - (Variety, Tony Scott)
The smooth production, acting and direction are admirable, …production design's smart, with Jacek Laskus' lensing flirting with German expressionism.
Devil’s Arithmetic
(LA Weekly, Robert Lloyd)
Filmed in Lithuania and Canada in the cold and wet, “The Devil's Arithmetic” is palpably, sometimes numbingly, atmospheric, its most disturbing images also its most beautifully made -- attention has been paid to color and texture and light.
(HR, David Hunter)
…with fine cinematography by Jacek Laskus, "Arithmetic" is a convincing recreation of the Holocaust.
Common Ground
(Variety)
Tech credits, especially Jacek Laskus’ evocative lensing, are excellent.
The Guardian, “Pilot”
(Variety, Michael Speir)
Tech credits are tops, with production design and Jacek Laskus' smooth lensing the standout elements.
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