The Work of Director Spike Jonze
When you experience The Work of Director Spike Jonze, you enter a world where anything can happen and frequently does. From the innovative director of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation., this superior compilation of music videos, documentaries, interviews, and early rarities offers abundant proof that Jonze is the real deal--a filmmaker ablaze with fresh ideas and fresh ways of filming them. Featuring The Beastie Boys, Bjork, Weezer, The Pharcyde, Fatboy Slim and many others.
Spike Jonze
Spike Jonze
Kim Gordon
Roman Coppola
Lance Bangs
Mark Gonzales
Bill Dolan
Casts & Crew
Ashley Barnett
Brian Bell
Björk
Sofia Coppola
Rivers Cuomo
Michael Diamond
FatLip
Norman Cook
Michael Gier
Mark Gonzales
Tré Hardson
Adam Horovitz
DJ Hurricane
Kelley Deal
Kim Deal
MC 900 Ft. Jesus
Spike Jonze
Catherine Kellner
Tony Maxwell
Al Molinaro
Kristine Petrucione
Romye Robinson
Michael Roney
Tim Szczepanski
Christopher Walken
Michelle Weber
Imani Wilcox
Adam Yauch
Also Directed by Spike Jonze
Video Days is a skateboarding video by Blind Skateboards released in 1991. It is considered by many in the skateboarding community to be "the Citizen Kane of skateboarding videos", as director Spike Jonze's format has continued to be the definitive template for most skate videos.
Weezer: Video Capture Device - Treasures From the Vault 1991-2002 contains every one of Weezer's music videos from that time period (including the classic Spike_Jonze directed clips for "The Sweater Song," and "Buddy Holly"). Also included are never-before-released videos, live footage from the beginning of the band's career, acoustic performances, and footage of the band at work in the studio.
In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.
Björk sings "It's Oh So Quiet" in a musical number set in and around a tire store.
A guy and a girl play copycat with each other from opposite sides of the street.
Includes the songs: Djembe, Gratitude (Live), Sabotage, The Hurricane Freestyle, Triphamnmer, Skills To Pay The Bills (Live), Time For Living, Sabrosa, Something's Got to Give, Screaming At a Wall (Live), Namaste' (Live), Futterman's Rule, 5-Piece Chicken Dinner, Jimmy James, Conga + Bass, Mullethead, Ricky's Theme, and So What 'Cha Want (Live with Cypress Hill).
One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters its mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.
Music videos for the album Medúlla. The medúlla videos. A documentary about the making of the "Triumph of a Heart" music video is also included as a bonus feature. Partially a mockumentary, the feature focuses on the auditions for the bar patrons who had to be able to make the noises and sound effects required for the live performance in the music video. The sound effects and noises used in the video were edited for a full remix released on the "Triumph of a Heart" CD single, titled the "Audition Mix". It is currently Björk's only DVD which features subtitles.
A love-lorn script writer grows increasingly desperate in his quest to adapt the book 'The Orchid Thief'.
Here’s a little story they’re about to tell… Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz share the story of their band and 40 years of friendship in a live documentary directed by friend, collaborator, and their former grandfather, Spike Jonze.
Also Directed by Kim Gordon
“Kim's nieces shot this video and Kim and I put it together for Kill Rock Stars' first VHS video comp. I guess we made it in the mid/late 90s. Always reminded me of a Sympathy for the Devil/Le Gai Savoir take on Tony Oursler's "EVOL" or something. Our master was on S-VHS. It's all we could afford.” —Katie Erdman
Also Directed by Roman Coppola
Four Stories judge and executive producer Roman Coppola co-wrote and directed a fifth short film, "Die Again, Undead One," an intergalactic vampire tale. Screenwriters: Roman Coppola and Jason Schwartzman Director: Roman Coppola
A shirt burns. Something is, perhaps, on the rocks.
After an 87 day labor dispute the New York Symphony Orchestra returned to play music. This is the story of that day.
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.
Directed by Roman Coppola. Featuring 'Here Comes The Night Time,' 'We Exist,' and 'Normal Person' from the album REFLEKTOR. Merge Records 2013
Candy is a modern chic french woman. She meets Julius and Gene, who are best friends, and cannot choose between them when both of them are fighting over her love.
A strange combination of techno and New Wave music, the French duo Daft Punk caused an international dance sensation with their catchy hit "Around The World." This fantastic French import showcases the fact that the duo's innovation carries over to the video realm from the musical one. D.A.F.T. features their first four famous videos -- "Da Funk," "Around The World," "Burnin," and "Revolution 909."
Charles Swan III, a successful graphic designer, has it all: fame, money and devilish charm that have provided him with a seemingly perfect life. But when a perplexing beauty named Ivana suddenly ends their relationship, Charles is left heartbroken. With the support of his loyal intimates - Kirby, Saul, and his sister, Izzy – Charles begins a delirious journey of self-reflection to try and come to terms with a life without Ivana. "A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III" is an unconventional melodrama told in a bold and playful style.
Commercial for Stella Artois
The seminal live performance by The Strokes, performing on a brightly lit stage before an intimate audience.
Also Directed by Lance Bangs
Marc Maron returns to his old stomping grounds for an intimate special in which he takes stock of himself. More than ever, Maron is raw and hilariously honest as he dissects his own neuroses and self-loathing while providing outrageous anecdotes from his personal life, in which he starts to realize the hurt isn't real, it's just "Thinky Pain."
Ben Stiller, Mike Myers, Seth Meyers and Michael Ian Black have a roundtable comedy discussion.
25-minute long behind the scenes documentary on the making of Jackass 3D.
A mix of cabaret and standup recorded at Joe's Pub in New York.
Her: Love In The Modern Age chronicles reactions to Spike Jonze's Oscar-nominated film, Her. The documentary, directed by Lance Bangs, features stories and reflections from writers, musicians, actors and contemporary culture experts, including Olivia Wilde, James Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis, on the film Her, and their thoughts on love in the modern age.
For an audience of drummers, comedian Fred Armisen shares and demonstrates his thoughts on musical genres, drummer quirks, regional accents and more.
Live at Jittery Joe's is a video album released in 2001 by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel to battle the high prices of bootlegs on eBay. Filmmaker Lance Bangs recorded it on high 8 video at the Athens, GA venue Jittery Joe's on March 7, 1997 during a live solo performance.
A concert film of Sonic Youth performing their Daydream Nation album in full at the ABC in Glasgow.
Lance Bangs interviews one of the extras whose job is to drive their car in the background of scenes in 'Being John Malkovich'.