Spike Jonze

The 51st New York Film Festival Is as Varied as Its Hometown

CLASSIFIED MATERIAL

Hear The Tobolowsky Files live

Being John Malkovich

SONIC BOOM

Artists and musicians take over DUMBO

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE

Karen O and company take on opera

Today Through Sunday, You Can Buy Watch The Throne At Something Resembling A Record Store

​To celebrate Watch The Throne being available in physical form today, Jay-Z and Kanye West have transformed the space at 201 Mulberry Street into a record store that, naturally, is selling that album and that album only. The windows are outfitted in the gilded, Riccardo Tisci-designed pattern ... More >>

Behold, The Video For "Otis"

"I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT HOW MUCH MONEY WE HAVE AND LAUGHING"​It's finally here -- the Spike Jonze directed video for "Otis" from two of the greats, Jay and Kanye, after the jump. It's filled with fireworks, American flags, crisp white button downs, human meme Aziz Ansari, etc. First thing w ... More >>

The "Otis" Video Debuts Tomorrow Night; Get Ready For Lots Of Smoke And Broing Down

The press release announcing tomorrow night's debut of the "Otis" video (on MTV, MTV2, mtvU, BET and Centric, at 8:56 p.m. ET) has a bit of a boxing-ring flair to it; Watch The Throne, the Jay-Z and Kanye West collaboration that the track comes from, gets dubbed "the Undisputed Number One Album in ... More >>

The Beastie Boys' New Spike Jonze-Directed Video Has A Couple Of Strings Attached

​ Yetis, torchings, references to the online rumor mill—yes, the Spike Jonze-directed clip for the Beastie Boys' Santigold-assisted "Don't Play No Games That I Can't Win" has it all and then some. In the clip, the group and Santi are transformed into puppets and then hunted down by an ev ... More >>

Year in Film: Sofia Coppola's Journey to Somewhere

Spike Jonze and Vice Founder Bribe Their Way Out of Jail in Yemen

​An interesting and surprisingly hip item out of Saturday's Page Six: director Spike Jonze (Adaptation., the new Arcade Fire video) and Shane Smith, the founder of the once-coke-fueled Vice magazine who isn't Gavin McInnes, were detained in Yemen while searching for al Qaeda during the filming ... More >>

Presenting the Single Greatest Magazine Quote of 2010, Starring a Dentist, a Chipped Tooth, and an Explosive Bowl of Dicks

​Jackass 3-D grossed more money at the box office this weekend than the three films below it combined. The dangers of making such a monumental, adventurous piece of cinema?

Tonight at Opening Ceremony: Spike Jonze and Live Music Performed By a Bear

​Arcade Fire and Kanye West collaborator Spike Jonze (he's also directed a movie or two) will be at Opening Ceremony tonight, promoting last month's robot romance short film I'm Here. He's doing a Q&A and signing the film's companion book, There Are Many of Us; the volume comes with a copy of ... More >>

"Power," Paintings, Pomposity: The Uncertain Evolution of Kanye West's Music Videos

​Art: this is how we explain away indulgent decisions. Last night, Kanye West released the first visual--do not call it a video--from his as yet untitled new album: a "painting," as he and his director call it, for "Power." The clip premiered on MTV directly following an episode of the network ... More >>

One Man's Desperate Attempt to Find a Reason to Like the Arcade Fire

Look, we're trying here, OK?​There is a thing where people get on the internet and express a strong, contrary opinion in the interests of getting other people angry. This is not that thing. There is a thing where a person sees a lot of other people getting excited about a cultural phenomenon a ... More >>

Photos: Hello From Vice's Ridiculously Grandiose Creators Project Fete At Milk Studios Saturday Night, Starring M.I.A., Sleigh Bells, And The Victorious Die Antwoord

​M.I.A. and Die Antwoord, respectively; you'll never guess who was better. All pics by Rebecca Smeyne, way more below.​I'm still not 100 percent sure what the Creators Project is, exactly, other than a perfectly fine excuse to cram a ton of big-shot artists (and Salem!), a few film scree ... More >>

ROUGH RIDERS

Film Festival brings biking to the big screen

Why This Decade Sucked, Reason #7: Guilty Pleasures Without Guilt

​ We will, in the closing days of this wretched decade, list the Top Ten reasons why it sucked. Previous reasons here, here, and here. ​If you had told us, at the beginning of this awful decade, that intelligent people would one day be writing essays -- serial essays, yet -- on reality ... More >>

Tonight! Have A Beer On Gaslight Anthem, Or Don't

Positively (as opposed to negatively) Springsteenian Jersey-punk rockers the Gaslight Anthem got hosed out of their All Points West slot by lousy weather. As did their fans. But if you bring yer ticket stub to Terminal 5 tonight, they'll buy you a beer. This appears to be a serious offer. (They're ... More >>

This Week's Voice: 50 Cent's The 50th Law, Brad Paisley, Bob Dylan, Where the Wild Things Are, the Andy Williams Memoir, and More

Who moved my cheese? Illustration by Shane Harrison.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla reads 50 Cent's surreally insightful self-help book, The 50th Law: "This book is actually kind of sad, in the bleakness of its cutthroat, shoot-nine-times-or-be-shot-nine-times worldview. Trust no o ... More >>

Interview: No Age Talk Spike Jonze, Live-Action Animal Films, and Playing the New Museum

​No Age's week beats your year. Last Tuesday, the duo of guitarist Randy Randall and drummer Dean Spunt released their new Losing Feeling EP on Sub Pop. They also lined up four shows in the five boroughs that are so random and far-flung as to appear the work of four different bands. Tonight, t ... More >>

Q&A with Lauren Ambrose (Where The Wild Things Are)

​KW photo Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures Lauren Ambrose is a monster -- with red hair, of course -- in Spike Jonze's cinematic interpretation of Maurice Sendak's

Spike Jonze Can't Quite Get Spirit of Where The Wild Things Are On Screen

Max and the gang's all here. Let the mild rumpus start!

This Week in the Voice

​What may we expect of a third Mike Bloomberg term? Few people pay closer attention to city politics than Wayne Barrett, so he's your man for "A Bloomberg Score Card: The Mayor's Hits and Misses." He still thinks "the self-serving reversal of term limits was the greatest abuse of power I have ... More >>

SO BOARD

A look at Spike Jonze’s skate-video origins

Spike Jonze Gets His Long-Overdue MOMA Retrospective

Pump up the Arcade Fire

Being John Malkovich

Five Must-See Films From the New York Film Festival

Fall Guide: Juliette Binoche Talks Paris and Dancing

M.I.A. Officially More Influential Than Prince, Lil Wayne, or Kanye West

Congratulations to M.I.A. for making Time's list of the 100 most influential people in 2009, two years after her last record, and three months after being nominated for her first Grammy. Spike Jonze, in his adulatory but perceptive ("She reacts to whatever's in front of her: 'Those are booming India ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Spike Jonze!

BEASTLY FUN

Spike Jonze raises a glass to Maurice Sendak

Mike Hill's Frustratingly Inarticulate Chronicle of Steve Rocco

Four More Music Video Veterans Enshrined in Pop Canon

Brain Humor

Playing Head Games with the Director, Writer, and Star of Being John Malkovich

Film

It's a Small World After All

The season's globe-trotting films bring mankind closer together, or at least pretend to on-screen

The Three Kings of Music Video Unveil Their Weapons of Choice

Days of Heaven

The Truths About Charlie

Brief Interviews With Devious Men

The Heart of the Meta

Adaptation: Critic-Proof Movie Inspires Sprawling ‘Village Voice’ Shit

Hard Knoxville

Final Cut Pros

Maggie May . . .

The Many Sides of Indie Film's Newest Siren

NY Mirror

Metaphysical therapy

Brain Humor

Playing Head Games with the Director, Writer, and Star of 'Being John Malkovich'

Left of Center and at the Forefront