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Just how does one make sense of a career that began with short television programs on Jimi Hendrix and abba and ended up in the big-budget world of Hollywood? "Don't even try," Lasse Hallström says with a soft chuckle...
...year-old director's work has uprooted him from his native Stockholm and planted him firmly in filmmaking's élite. My Life as a Dog (1985) first introduced Hollywood to Hallström, but it was The Cider House Rules in 1999, followed by Chocolat in 2000, that cemented his reputation as a master of literary adaptation. Now he's back with another star-studded film, The Shipping News , perhaps his most challenging book-to-big-screen project...
...Hallström grew up on film in the 1950s. In that time "before television," he watched Charlie Chaplin flicks and documentaries by his father, an amateur filmmaker. At 10, he made his first movie, The Ghost Thief, a three-minute thriller on 8-mm film. As a teen, he took his camera everywhere, and his precocity later landed him work in TV, which "was my film school," he says. "I worked the cameras and I edited," mostly on music shorts for Swedish television. Gradually, Hallström shifted his focus from the small screen...