Download or read book The Spike Jonze Handbook Everything You Need to Know about Spike Jonze written by Emily Smith and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spike Jonze (born Adam Spiegel; October 22, 1969) is an American director, producer, screenwriter and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Charlie Kaufman, which include the 1999 film Being John Malkovich (which gave him a nomination for Academy Award for Best Director) and the 2002 film Adaptation, and as the co-writer/director of the 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are. He is well known also for his music video collaborations with Weezer, Beastie Boys, and Björk. He was also a co-creator and executive producer of MTV's Jackass. He is currently the creative director of VBS.tv. He is also part owner of skateboard company Girl Skateboards with riders Rick Howard and Mike Carroll. He also co-founded Directors Label, with filmmakers Chris Cunningham and Michel Gondry, and the Palm Pictures company. This book is your ultimate resource for Spike Jonze. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Spike Jonze's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Spike Jonze, 100% (Sonic Youth song), 2002 in film, Academy Award for Best Director, Amarillo by Morning (film), Amy Adams, Arcade Fire, Beastie Boys, Beck, Being John Malkovich, Björk, Buddy Holly (song), Chlotrudis Award for Best Director, Chris Cunningham, César Award for Best Foreign Film, Da Funk, Daft Punk, Dave Eggers, David O. Russell, Directors Label, Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win, Electrolite, Elektrobank, Feel the Pain, Film director, Fully Flared, Get Back (Ludacris song), Guess I'm Doing Fine, Hello Tomorrow, Her (film), How They Get There, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Human Nature (film), I'm Here (film) and more pages! Contains selected content from the highest rated entries, typeset, printed and shipped, combining the advantages of up-to-date and in-depth knowledge with the convenience of printed books. A portion of the proceeds of each book will be donated to the Wikimedia Foundation to support their mission.
Download or read book Spike Jonze 231 Success Facts Everything You Need to Know about Spike Jonze written by Kimberly Trujillo and published by Emereo Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spike Jonze is an American director, producer, screenwriter and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television. He started his feature film directing career with Being John Malkovich (1999) and Adaptation (2002), both written by Charlie Kaufman, and then started movies with screenplays of his own with Where the Wild Things Are (2009) and Her (2013). This book is your ultimate resource for Spike Jonze. Here you will find the most up-to-date 231 Success Facts, Information, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Spike Jonze's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Bjork - 1997-2002: Embracing beats, strings, Homogenic and Vespertine, Watch The Throne - Singles, Walt Whitman High School (Bethesda, Maryland) - Notable alumni, What's Up, Fatlip?, Her (film) - Cast, Music videos - 1992-2004: Rise of the directors, Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa, Music video - 1992-2004: Rise of the directors, Samantha Morton - 2008-present, No Country for Old Men (film) - Home media, Dope (Lady Gaga song) - Live performances, Crush with Eyeliner, Her (film) - Reception, Being John Malkovich - Cast, Johnny Knoxville - Production credits, Where the Wild Things Are (film) - Critical response, Lance Bangs - Life and career, Drunk Girls - Music video, Dave Eggers - Musical contributions, 36th Saturn Awards - Saturn Award for Best WritingBest Writing, The 1 Second Film - Celebrity producers, Sean Lennon - Cibo Matto and Into The Sun, Sofia Coppola - Music videos, Corporate Ghost - Other, Mayer Hawthorne - Career, Coffee and Cigarettes - Cousins?, Weapon of Choice (music video) - Music video, Lance Bangs - Film, Blind Skateboards - Video Days, David O. Russell - Three Kings, Velocity Girl - History, Postmodernist film - Examples of postmodernist film and filmmakers, Cannonball (Breeders song) - Music video, and much more...
Download or read book There are Many of Us written by Spike Jonze and published by McSweeney's. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with gorgeous photography, behind-the-scenes ephemera, and funny, inspiring interviews, There Are Many of Us celebrates the uniquely spontaneous making of Spike Jonze's new movie I'm Here. The book includes an original CD soundtrack as well as a DVD of the 30-minute movie, I'm Here, with special bonus content. I'm Here--which opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival--is a boy-meets-girl love story, set in LA, experienced by robots.
Download or read book ReFocus The Films of Spike Jonze written by Wilkins Kim Wilkins and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ReFocus: The Films of Spike Jonze is the first collection of essays on this important and original contemporary filmmaker. It looks at his ground-breaking work in both features and short forms, exploring the impact of his filmmaking across a range of philosophical and cultural discussions. Each of Jonze's feature films, from Being John Malkovich (1999) to Her (2013), is discussed at length, focusing on issues of authorship, narration, genre and adaptation. As well as the textual aspects of Jonze's feature films, the contributors consider his work in music videos and shorts - investigating his position as a filmmaker on the blurred boundaries between studio and independent modes of production.
Download or read book Beastie Boys written by Spike Jonze and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book of photography to be published by the Academy Award-winning film director and photographer Spike Jonze. Will appeal to every fan of Beastie Boys and golden-era hip hop, as well as photography and Spike Jonze's own focused audiences. Spike Jonze and Beastie Boys met for the first time in Los Angeles in 1991, when Jonze went out to photograph the band for the cover of Dirt magazine. A connection formed between the three MCs and the young photographer, which has lasted throughout their careers. Almost thirty years later--published to coincide with the release on Apple+ of a new documentary, Beastie Boys Story--this book collects for the first time more than two hundred of Spike Jonze's personal photographs of his time spent with the group. Edited and with an afterword by Jonze, and including new writing by Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz themselves, this book shows an intimate look at the greatest act of the hip-hop generation in their truest colors as only a close friend could see them--from performing live onstage to writing together at Mike's apartment; getting into character for a video to dressing up as old men to hit the basketball court; recording music in the studio to goofing around on the streets of New York. From the music video for "Sabotage" to the cover of the Sounds of Science album, Spike Jonze is responsible for some of the most iconic images of the band ever made. But here, the emphasis is on the candid, the unexpected, and the real--just pictures of friends who like making stuff together.
Download or read book Love Minus Eighty written by Will McIntosh and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the future, love is complicated and death is not necessarily the end. Love Minus Eighty follows several interconnected people in a disquieting vision of romantic life in the century to come. There's Rob, who accidentally kills a jogger, then sacrifices all to visit her in a cryogenic dating facility, seeking forgiveness but instead falling in love. Veronika, a shy dating coach, finds herself coaching the very woman who is stealing the man she loves. And Mira, a gay woman accidentally placed in a heterosexual dating center near its inception, desperately seeks a way to reunite with her frozen partner as the years pass. In this daring and big-hearted novel based on the Hugo-winning short story, the lovelorn navigate a world in which technology has reached the outer limits of morality and romance.
Download or read book The Films of Spike Jonze written by Kim Wilkins and published by Refocus: The American Director. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at Spike Jonze's ground-breaking work in both features and short forms, exploring the impact of his filmmaking across a range of philosophical and cultural discussions.
Download or read book Heads On and We Shoot written by Editors of McSweeney's and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maurice Sendak′s classic book Where the Wild Things Are follows the adventures of Max, a headstrong young boy who leaves home after having a fight with his mother, only to find himself in a mysterious forest bordering a vast sea. Misunderstood and rebellious, Max sets sail to the land of the Wild Things, where mischief reigns. But how do you turn one of the world′s favorite children′s books into a movie? This film incorporates the most dynamic elements of voice performance, live-action puppetry, and computer animation into a live-action adventure story that captures the magic of the book-and takes it to a new dimension. In order to preserve the realistic nature of the film, the Wild Things are not created digitally. Instead, Spike Jonze brings these characters to life in the form of physical suits built by the Jim Henson Company. These creatures, operated by a suit performer, interact with the live actor playing Max on set in front of the camera. After principal photography is finished, CGI is being used to make the creatures completely lifelike and convincing. HEADS ON AND WE SHOOT unveils the unique collaboration behind this highly anticipated film-the combined work of Maurice Sendak, Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers, and all the cast and crew. The book design is heavily image-based, a mix of early sketches, storyboards, character designs, and extensive behind-the-scenes photographs that show both incredible live-action puppetry and computer animation. The text includes forewords by Jonze and Eggers, interviews with the cast and crew, stories from on and off the set, and early drafts of the screenplay. The resulting book will be simultaneously a beautiful object for collectors, an insider′s guide for devotees, and an intimate window into the creative process.
Download or read book Her Ultimate Trivia Book Trivia Curious Facts And Behind The Scenes Secrets Of The Film Directed By Spike Jonze written by Filmic Universe and published by Filmic Universe. This book was released on 2024-03-10 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HER - ULTIMATE TRIVIA BOOK: TRIVIA, CURIOUS FACTS AND BEHIND THE SCENES SECRETS – OF THE FILM DIRECTED BY SPIKE JONZE CREATED BY: FILMIC UNIVERSE - Do you think you know everything about HER? Do you want to know more than 100 curious facts and secrets of Spike Jonze's film? This eBook is full of information about one of the best movies of 2013. You will find and REALLY LOVE abundant behind the scenes secrets. You can test your knowledge about this movie here. - HERE SOME EXAMPLES: - Director Spike Jonze so loved his role as Alien Child that he would often give notes to his editor and producer in character. - This is the only movie Spike Jonze has written as well as directed, completely from his own original script. - Charlie Kaufman did some uncredited screenwriting on the film. - The airplane sculpture shown in a square outside Pacific Design Center was entirely made in CGI. There's no such sculpture on the real location in West Hollywood. - Most of the scenes in the movie contain various warm shades ranging from red to orange and to yellow. - As of March 2021 Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix who play a married/divorced couple in the movie are engaged to be married and have a son, River, together. - Chris Cooper filmed a few scenes but his role ended up completely cut from the final movie. AND MUCH MORE! - So, if you want to relive the memories of this great movie or just want to be entertained and learn more about it, do not hesitate to READ this Book!
Download or read book The Wild Things written by Dave Eggers and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max is a rambunctious eight-year-old, living with his mother and his sister, terrorizing the neighborhood on his bicycle. But Max's world is changing around him: His father is absent and his mother is increasingly distracted. Max's teenage sister is outgrowing him, leaving him alone in favor of her friends. Sad and angry, Max dons his wolf suit and makes terrible, ruinous mischief. Setting off into the night, Max finds a boat and sails away to an island. Here he meets strange and giant creatures. Creatures that rage and break things. Creatures that trample and scream. These monsters do everything Max feels inside! And so, Max appoints himself their king. Here, on a magnificent adventure with the creatures, Max can be the wildest thing of all. In this visionary new novel, Eggers brings an imaginary world vividly to life, filling it with monsters, chaos, and one very real little boy. By turns beautiful and joyful, sorrowful and strange, The Wild Things is an astonishing literary triumph.
Download or read book The Sundance Kids written by James Mottram and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Mottram traces the roots of this generation of American film-makers to Steven Soderbergh's 'Sex, Lies and Videotape' and looks at how many kickstarted their careers and made their mark at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute in Utah or at his film festival.
Download or read book THERE ARE MANY OF US written by SPIKE JONZE and published by ヴィズミック/コントラリード事業部. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SPIKE JONZE最新作品”I’M HERE”味わい尽くすBOOK+DVD+CD豪華セット。
Download or read book Light Boxes written by Shane Jones and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant and fantastical first novel by a timeless new literary voice. With all the elements of a classic fable, vivid descriptions, and a wholly unique style, this idiosyncratic debut introduces a new and exciting voice to readers of such authors as George Saunders, Kurt Vonnegut, and Yann Martel. In Light Boxes, the inhabitants of one closely-knit town are experiencing perpetual February. It turns out that a god-like spirit who lives in the sky, named February, is punishing the town for flying, and bans flight of all kind, including hot air balloons and even children's kites. It's February who makes the sun nothing but a faint memory, who blankets the ground with snow, who freezes the rivers and the lakes. As endless February continues, children go missing and more and more adults become nearly catatonic with depression. But others find the strength to fight back, waging war on February.
Download or read book The Saddest Music Ever Written written by Thomas Larson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the cultural impact of Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, the Pieta of music, and its enigmatic composer. "Whenever the American dream suffers a catastrophic setback, Barber’s Adagio plays on the radio.” —Alex Ross, author of The Rest is Noise In the first book ever to explore Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, music and literary critic Thomas Larson tells the story of the prodigal composer and his seminal masterpiece: from its composition in 1936, when Barber was just twenty-six, to its orchestral premiere two years later, led by the great Arturo Toscanini, and its fascinating history as America’s secular hymn for grieving our dead. Older Americans know Adagio from the funerals and memorials for Presidents Roosevelt and Kennedy, Albert Einstein, and Grace Kelly. Younger Americans recall the work as the antiwar theme of the movie Platoon. Still others treasure the piece in its choral version under the name Agnus Dei. More recently, mourners heard Adagio played as a memorial to the victims of the 9/11 attacks. Barber’s Adagio is truly the saddest music ever written, enrapturing listeners with its lyric beauty as few laments have. The Adagio’s sonorous intensity also speaks of the turbulent inner life of its composer, Samuel Barber (1910-1981), a melancholic who, in later years, descended into alcoholism and severe depression. Part biography, part cultural history, part memoir, The Saddest Music ever Written captures the deep emotion Barber’s great elegy has stirred throughout the world during its seventy-five-year history, becoming an icon of our national soul.
Download or read book ReFocus The Films of Spike Jonze written by Kim Wilkins and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at Spike Jonze's ground-breaking work in both features and short forms, exploring the impact of his filmmaking across a range of philosophical and cultural discussions
Download or read book Ween s Chocolate and Cheese written by Hank Shteamer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of a pivotal moment in Ween's development, as they became one of the world's most endearing, and enduring, cult bands.
Download or read book Beastie Boys Book written by Michael Diamond and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES, GRAMMY-NOMINATED BESTSELLER A SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, ROLLING STONE, AND ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR A panoramic experience that tells the story of Beastie Boys, a book as unique as the band itself-by band members AD-ROCK and Mike D, with contributions from Amy Poehler, Colson Whitehead, Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Luc Sante, and more. THE INSPIRATION FOR THE 5-TIME EMMY NOMINATED, SPIKE JONZE-DIRECTED BEASTIE BOYS STORY 'One of the greatest music books ever published.' MAX PORTER Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip hop superstardom. Here is their story, told for the first time in the words of the band. Adam "AD-ROCK" Horovitz and Michael "Mike D" Diamond offer revealing and very funny accounts of their transition from teenage punks to budding rappers; their early collaboration with Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin; the almost impossible-to-fathom overnight success of their debut studio album Licensed to Ill; that album's messy fallout; their break with Def Jam, move to Los Angeles, and rebirth as musicians and social activists, with the genre-defying masterpiece Paul's Boutique. For more than twenty years, this band has had a wide-ranging and lasting influence on popular culture. With a style as distinctive and eclectic as a Beastie Boys album, Beastie Boys Book upends the typical music memoir. Alongside the band narrative you will find rare photos, original illustrations, a cookbook by chef Roy Choi, a graphic novel, a map of Beastie Boys' New York, mixtape playlists, pieces by guest contributors, and many more surprises. 'Memoir, graphic novel, cookbook, photo-journal, love letter, elegy: this vast, unwieldy, marvellous book, narrated, like the band's songs, scatter-gun style by the two surviving Beastie Boys, is as original, uncategorisable and attention-grabbing as their music.' SUNDAY TIMES (BOOK OF THE YEAR) 'Wide-ranging and unorthodox . . . [a] treat . . . insightful about the group's shifting music and are expert yarn-spinners, homing in on telling vignettes rather than doling out a straightforward history . . . shot through with yearning and melanchonly.' GUARDIAN (BOOK OF THE YEAR) 'Here is their story, told for the first time in the words of the ban With a style as distinctive and eclectic as a Beastie Boys album, Beastie Boys Book upends the typical music memoir . . . Our clear winner for Book of the Year.' ROUGH TRADE (BOOK OF THE YEAR) 'The Beasties didn't play by the rules during their career, and this memoir by surviving members Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz doesn't either . . . hiliarious, at times heartwarming.' ROLLING STONE (BOOK OF THE YEAR)
