Spike Jonze Retrospective at MoMA

As part of Spike Jonze: The First 80 Years, MoMA has been screening several of his movies, shorts, commercials, and videos. The selection we saw included a documentary about young cowboys (self-indulgent), commercials for Miller and Wrangler (somewhat nonsensical when taken out of the context of TV), and videos for Bjork, Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Fatboy Slim, and Weezer (simply awesome). The one-after-another format flaunted his obsessions, which include animals, disconnect (Sofia Coppola doing gymnastics to the Chemical Brothers), irony (Christopher Walken dancing to Weapon of Choice), and joie de vivre (the Jonze-led Torrance Community Dance Group dancing to Praise You).

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