The Work of Director Spike Jonze

One of the year's best DVDs. It contains at least five all-out mini-masterpieces.

In this medium renowned for generic marketing integrity, Jonze's work disenables such implicit dismissal.

The "Work of Director Spike Jonze" DVD features many of the music videos and short films done by the notorious young directing legend, who has graduated from music video icon status into feature film stardom with the odd but entertaining "Being John Malkovich" and "Adaptation." Jonze cut his teeth on such music videos as Fatboy Slim's "Praise You" and the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage", and has managed to notch up some of my all time favorites along the way. Let's take a look at how the Jonze collection stacks up. Side A of the DVD features the following videos, complete with interviews and audio commentaries on some of the clips: "California" -Wax A guy runs to catch a bus in slow motion...and he is on fire. Catchy song with a creepy video. (4/5*) "Sure Shot"- Beastie Boys I am 35 years old, and I don't have to like rap music if I don't want to. (1/5*) "Drop"- The Pharcyde The camera captured the rap group doing the song backward, then ran the clip forward, resulting in a visually interesting effect on yet another generic rap song. (2/5*) "Cannonball"- The Breeders A great song from the early to mid 90's, when alternative music was kicking '80's pop out the door- before falling victim to the hip hop tidal wave. (5/5*) "Sabotage"- Beastie Boys This homage to gritty '70's police shows is considered groundbreaking, I found it annoying. (1/5*) "Da Funk"- Daft Punk A large talkin…

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