Reddit reviews Director's Series, Vol. 3 - The Work of Director Michel Gondry

Cardiacs - R.E.S. -- mental band, mental video
Aphex Twin / Chris Cunningham - Rubber Johnny -- ok, so not strictly a music vid
Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be -- great vid by Michel Gondry
pretty much everything on this Chris Cunningham DVD or this Michel Gondry DVD
UNKLE / radiohead - Rabbit in Your Headlights -- just remembered this, not seen it for a few years, forgotten how freaky it is

If you watch the Work of Director DVD (very recommendable) or even The Science of Sleep, you'll see how "dream logic" had always been Gondry's favorite topic, his main talent. He somehow just knows how to film scenes in a way that makes them look like dreams and Eternal Sunshine was his masterpiece. It was the perfect film for him to direct and after all, he got the "original story" credit which is no coincidence. Kaufman wrote in the whimsical dialog (which is great) but this is mostly Gondry playing out his biggest strengths.

Have you heard the story behind how the Everlong video was made?

Edit: essentially, there was a lot of resistance to Michel Gondry's idea for the video. One member didn't want to partake because of the portrayal of violence against women. Another for another reason, and so on. Part of the way they were able to get away with it was by dressing Taylor up as the woman.

I heard about this on the Director's Works DVD for Michel Gondry [BTW, I love that Michel Gondry reviewed his "own" DVD: "I had very little to do with the planning and completion of this DVD so I believe I can give it a review. However I don't think I can give it one without bias so everyone can take the my five stars with a pinch of salt. I can say that I do love the DVD very much. I feel very happy that it has been recieved so well and feel that it does offer a comprehensive view into my work. If there were more stars to give I would."], so IIRC it was told by the video director. I haven't had a chance to watch yet, but I'm assuming this video covers the band's perspective.

2nd Edit: better story of how Michel convinced Foo Fighters to do the Everlong video

That is a cool video. This was by Michel Gondry. Here is another really cool video by him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmpxsk3dHaA

You can buy a DVD of a bunch of his videos:

http://www.amazon.com/Directors-Vol-Director-Michel-Gondry/dp/B0000DBJ9J

There's a series of DVDs that catalog the music videos of directors and Michael gondry is one of them

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0000DBJ9J?pc_redir=1405030406&robot_redir=1

That video also has this ultra surreal short where Michael gondry takes a poop, doesn't look at it when he flushes, then comes to life (played by David cross, who else) and asks why he didn't look and don't you like me anymore.

http://youtu.be/xU6zcqmw0Uk

Anyway, there others are great too, like Spike Jonez and Chris Cunningham (he did Come to Daddy and Windowlicker)

> This was one of the first DVD's I actually purchased....

Michel Gonrdy's too. WHOA - there is a Michel Gondry #2 disc!

I just watched that for the first time two nights ago, on the Michel Gondry DVD!

Bachelorette, Star Guitar, and Let Forever Be also BLOW MY MIND.

Since there's no mention of him here yet... GO WATCH MORE MICHEL GONDRY!

A good place to start is here: Director's Series, Vol. 3 - The Work of Director Michel Gondry. They are all good, but Michel's is especially awesome.

There is a great DVD of his work in a series called... "Directors Series".
http://www.amazon.com/Directors-Series-Vol-Director-Michel/dp/B0000DBJ9J/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1382768864&sr=8-5&keywords=directors+series