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Jonathan Glazer is a music video and commercial icon whose extraordinary work reveals his gift for intense visual ambition.
After winning multiple awards for his music videos and commercials he directed the 2001 feature film, Sexy Beast starring Sir Ben Kingsley, followed in 2004 by Birth starring Nicole Kidman.
Further Information:
Music Videos:
Radiohead Street Spirit
Jamiroquai Virtual Insanity
Richard Ashcroft A Song for the Lovers
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Into My Arms
UNKLE Rabbit in Your Headlights
Blur The Universal
Radiohead Karma Police
Massive Attack Karmacoma
Commercials
Wrangler Ride
Guinness Surfer (extended)
Guinness Swim Black
Guinness Dreamer
Volkswagen Protection
Stella Artois Last Orders
Stella Artois Whip Round
Levis Kung Fu
Levis Odyssey
Barclays Bull (with Samuel L. Jackson)
Barclays Chicken (with Samuel L. Jackson)
Interviews and Commentaries
Including Nick Cave, Richard Ashcroft, Jamiroquai, Denis
Lavant, 3D, Blur and James Lavelle.
Films
Sexy Beast (excerpt)
You�re the Problem
Interviews with Ray Winstone and Sir Ben Kingsley
Birth (excerpt)
Central Park
Interviews
with Nicole Kidman, Danny Huston, Harris Savides, Milo Addica and Jean-Claude Carri`ere.
Tramp
Paul Kaye
56 Page Book
Includes photographs, sketches, storyboards and interview.
| Catalog Number: MC-444 |
Type: Shorts Compilation |
Genre: Music |
| Copyright: 2005 |
Length: 180 minutes |
Format:
DVD Region: 0 (All) |
| TV System: NTSC |
ISBN: |
UPC: 660200308223 |
| Label: Palm Pictures |
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2006-09-29 Movie Habit
By Andrea Birgers
Glazer is probably best known as the director of the dark crime comedy Sexy Beast, but the most memorable film on this DVD is a music video of UNKLE’s Rabbit in Your Headlights, with its disturbing imagery of a madman in the middle of traffic.
It’s hard to pinpoint a particular style or attitude in Glazer’s work, but his music videos, commercials and feature films are striking – some for their emotional content, some for their playfulness and others for their visuals which are sometimes incomprehensible.
In the Rabbit in Your Headlights video, a man, bruised and ranting incoherently, walks down the middle of a busy traffic tunnel. Cars hit him several times and drive on, but he gets up and continues his journey. The video’s imagery is shocking and disturbing (and got it banned in some places), but it leads up to a satisfying payoff at the end.
Another strikingly emotional music video is for Nick Cave’s Into your Arms. Shot in high-contrast black and white, the film cuts between Cave singing and images of people who are suffering from mental anguish. Interestingly, on the commentary track for this video, Cave calls the images “grim and dismal.” He laments that the depressing images overshadow lyrics that were meant to be hopeful. But again, the last shot has something of a payoff that ameliorates the grim imagery.
The playfulness of Glazer’s work comes through in the video for Jamiroquai’s Virtual Insanity. The video, which received heavy airplay on MTV in the mid-1990s, has the singer dancing and dodging furniture in a room with a moving floor. Listen to the commentary track for this video to find out how it was done.
The television commercials directed by Glazer have memorable imagery that grabs the attention of viewers. The content overshadows the sales pitch at times, but the advertisements are fun to watch. A spot for Levis recreates a 1970s Kung Fu movie. A Guinness commercial that features the bizarre dreams of a drunk gives an example of Glazer’s more abstract work.
The disc also includes two short excerpts from Glazer’s two features films – Sexy Beast and Birth. An intense scene from Beast shows off Ben Kingsley’s electrifying performance as the nasty Don Logan. By contrast, the opening sequence of Birth follows a black-clad man jogging through Central Park on a grey, snowy morning. It’s a peaceful scene and even the man’s collapse and evident death at its end doesn’t disrupt it. Both scenes are good examples of Glazer’s work, but leave one wondering how much credit belongs to Glazer and how much belongs to the others who worked on the films.
The only parts of the DVD where Glazer is seen or directly heard from are in short segments that run before the menus appear. They feature Glazer asking for career advice from a homeless man. “Ben Kingsley,” the man advises, to play a tough guy. “Gandhi?” Glazer replies incredulously. The menus for the videos and commercials have a fun little treat. Instead of selecting “play all,” highlight each individual film, before pressing play, to hear two guys making humorous comments about each one.
A 56-page booklet that comes with the DVD pairs photos of his work with storyboards, sketches and pages from scripts. An interview with Glazer has the interviewee doing as much of the talking as his subject. It reads like a good conversation between the two.
Although the picture doesn’t seem to be as crisp as feature releases from big studios, it is quite good, with some variation between films. The sound is good too. There is very little use of surround, but that doesn’t detract from enjoyment of the DVD.
Johnathan Glazer’s work runs the gamut from disturbing to fun. His success in imposing his artistic vision on such a variety of material makes him someone to watch in the future. |
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