Was directed by Sam Peckinpah.




WTF?

exactly my thoughts on this thread.

Man needed to earn a living.

and 'Valotte'..

Gus Van Sant directed Bowie's "Fame '90" video

Weird Al Yankovic directed the following videos (not including his own):
Wail (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, 1996)
Only A Fool (Black Crowes, 1999)
Rockin' The Suburbs (Ben Folds, 2001)

John Sayles did a bunch fer Springsteen, Mulcahy did all those early Duran-Duran vids..
Scorsese did 'Bad', etc..

Movie directors have been doing vids since the whole craze started. The fact that Bloody Sam got one under his belt is hardly earth shattering but then Tony likes to catch us offguard with little bits such as this.

Sayles doing Springsteen makes sense. Depalma doing Springsteen isn't too incongruous since he was a formalist to begin with. But Sam 'If they move - Kill em!' Peckinpah doing a Julian Lennon video is a head scratcher. If he was going to make videos you would thinkg it would have been for Springsteen,

P.S. Russell Mulcahy did the video for Billy Joel's Pressure which was something of a groundbreaker I think.

What I need to know is who directed the classics, "Uptown Girl" & "For The Longest Time"?

Taylor Hackford.

Nope

Yeah, that one...I was slapping myself trying to remember which one it was. And of course, John Landis is part of this list---his videos resemble(d) many of his movies ...flash with very little substance.

Thank god that's settled. I'll be able to sleep tonight.

(on a related note, the Billy Joel appreciation thread is way overdue, Mortician.)

That vid still rules, one of the reasons I bought the video comp. DVD. Pass by '80s dreck like "Only Human" ,"The Night Is Still Young" and "Keeping The Faith"--the earlier performance footage is quite interesting. Fun to watch BJ go through his crappy hairstyles and varying sense of fashion.

I don't know about that. His movies reflect a true film buff. An American Werewolf in London, Into the Night and Innocent Blood certainly do.

Like I said...many, NOT all.

oh yes.. in some way this would turn back to Joel.. go fig.

Tony, why is it hard to believe Sam would take such a gig? Outside of 'Osterman Weekend' he wasn't exactly batting a thousand anymore. Not to mention he was thick into booze and drugs. You know if he'd lived longer I'd bet anything he'd of started to do flicks with Stephen Segall or something equally as dopey.

according to Wikipedia Sam P. was in talks to do a film of Stephen King's The Gunslinger when he died.