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6 cool videos made by famous film directors[edit]
Creative, atmospheric, cinematic and definitely musical videos. David Fincher, Michael Bay, Tim Burton and others.
Many notable filmmakers have made royalty free drama music. Some have made dozens, some only a couple. Some big directors (like David Fincher) started with them, and some came to them having already become a master in big cinema (like Tim Burton). In our selection we offer to watch famous clips made by not less famous directors.
Bruce Springsteen - "Dancing In The Dark" (1984)[edit]
Brian De Palma "Dancing In The Dark" was directed by Brian De Palma, who had already become famous as a film director - to his credit by then were "Carrie" (1976), "Fury" (1978) and "Scarface" (1983). The video is simple enough: a concert, dancing on stage, a girl in the audience. This video is also notable for the fact that it starred (in the role of the very same girl) the then little-known Courteney Cox - the future star of the TV series "Friends".
Michael Jackson - "Bad" (1987)[edit]
Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese's "Bad" can be called a clip: it is an 18-minute short film (there is also a short 4-minute version). Curiously, Scorsese has always been (and still is) interested in music, but from a slightly different angle. For example, he has made documentaries about The Rolling Stones (in 2008), George Harrison (in 2011) and Bob Dylan, with two films about Dylan: No Direction Home (2005) and Rolling Thunder Revue (2019).
New Order - "Touched by the Hand of God" (1987)[edit]
Kathryn Bigelow Before her star hour with On the Crest of a Wave (1991), Kathryn Bigelow directed three films - Without Love (1987), Almost Total Darkness (1987, a very curious mystical thriller) and Blue Steel (1989), and also worked on a video for the band New Order. In the video "Touched by the Hand of God," the musicians parody the glam rockers who were at the height of fashion at the time. Bill Paxton, who starred in "Almost Total Darkness," appears in the video.
Kathryn Bigelow also directed the "Selling Jesus" (1995) music video for Skunk Anansie.
George Michael - "Freedom!'90" (1990)[edit]
David Fincher Nowadays, David Fincher, director of Seven (1995) and Fight Club (1999), needed no introduction and had been making music videos long before films - he started working with Rick Springfield back in 1984. I have to say that Fincher's music videos are as good as his films: George Michael's "Freedom" was truly legendary. By the way, the "Freedom!'90" video starred famous supermodels, including Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell (and no, that's not the main reason why it became legendary).
David Fincher also directed music videos for Sting - "Englishman In New York" (1988), for Madonna - "Vogue" (1990) and for Justin Timberlake - "Suit & Tie" (2013).
R.E.M. - "Losing My Religion" (1991)[edit]
Tarsem Singh It was with music videos that Tarsem Singh - the future director of "The Cage" (2000) and "Snow White: Revenge of the Dwarfs" (2012) - started. It wasn't much, but Losing My Religion, made for R.E.M., won a Grammy and six (!) MTV awards. It has 675 million views on YouTube, an achievement for a music video almost 30 years ago. Nowadays the director doesn't make music videos - the last one, "Sweet Lullaby" for Deep Forest, was made back in 1993.
Another noticeable video by Tarsem Singh is the video for the Lou Reed song "What's Good" (1992).
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Under The Bridge" (1992)[edit]
Gus Van Sant. According to Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Fly, the music video of Gus Van Sant helped them break through to the mainstream (the musician acted in the movie "My Own Private Idaho" and got acquainted with the director). In 2007, another clip of Red Hot Chili Peppers, directed by Van Sant, "Desecration Smile" was released. After that the director didn't work on music videos for a long time (but he made such films as Good Will Hunting (1997), Jerry (2002), Harvey Milk (2008)), and in 2017 he starred in the music video of Danny Brown "Ain't It Funny".
Gus Van Sant also worked on David Bowie's "Fame'90" (1990), Elton John's "The Last Song" (1992) and the Stone Temple Pilots "Creep" (1993) videos
