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Amidst a funny and touching conversation with David O. Russell, Spike Jonze touched on everything from his ties to the skateboarding world (check out Fully Flared if you haven’t already), his relationships with both James Gandolfini (“he was an amazing man who just wanted to be true”, and who helped show everyone exactly what “Where [...]

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Yesterday, we brought you our first installment of the Spike Jonze and David O. Russell chat at L.A. Film Fest, where the filmmaker presented clips from his upcoming oddball romantic comedy “Her.” But now we’ve got a recap of the previous hour of the chat, a friendly and lively discussion between the two longtime friends and unofficial collaborators. Opening with with the 2007 skate video “Fully Flared,” Russell guided Jonze through a talk starting with his early days writing for the magazines Freestylin’ and Dirt, through his music videos, “Being John Malkovich,” “Where the Wild Things Are” and finally to his new project, “Her.” Jonze felt right at home in the L.A. Live Regal Cinemas in Downtown L.A., as he pointed out that he had shot “Fully Flared” and “Being John Malkovich” just blocks away, as well as the video "Drop" for The Pharcyde (watch below). “I...

Here's the trailer for a cool looking skateboarding film called Pretty Sweet, which was directed by Ty Evans, Cory Weincheque and Spike Jonze. Jonze is involved with a very wide variety of projects, and has always broken ground with the inventive skits and filming techniques he has brought to the Girl/Chocolate and Lakai skate videos. The director also picks up his skateboard for the film and shows off his skating skills. The film features the infamously tight-knit Girl and Chocolate crew, including Guy Mariano, Eric Koston, Sean Malto, Marc Johnson, Jesus Fernandez, Vincent Alvarez, Elijah Berle, Justin Eldridge, Brian Anderson and a ton of other skaters.

I love the sport of skateboarding, and I've always enjoyed watching skate videos and documentaries. There's some really cool shots in the trailer -- even when Marc Johnson Doesn't land a trick it still looks buttery. It's definitely worth checking out for anyone looking to see some awesomeness!

  Where the Wild Things Are director Spike Jonze started his career making skateboarding videos and is co-owner of skateboard company Girl Skateboards with pro-skate dudes Rick Howard and Mike Carroll. It's been a while since Jonze set his camera on the wheels of notable people in the sport, but a new video has surfaced via Slash Film that features Eric Koston, Guy Mariano, Sean Malto, Marc Johnson, Elijah Berle, Jesus Fernandez, Brian Anderson and others. Pretty Sweet is available on iTunes and was created with Fully Flared team Ty Evans and Cory Weincheque.   Experimental electronic act Flying Lotus (aka Captain Murphy aka Steven Ellison) features Frodo in the video for his song "Tiny Tortures" from the album Until the Quiet Comes, which dropped...

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So we all know that Spike Jonze is famous for a few things; some of us love his music videos (and with over 50 under his belt, you can't deny the man has made some of the most interesting videos over the last 17 years), some of us love his films, and there are some of us that just know him as that guy who married (and then divorced) Sofia Coppola. But if you've been a follower of his career then you know that one of his great loves is skateboarding. In the new video for Unkle's song, Heaven, the director reedited footage from his 2007 skateboarding film, * Fully Flared -- and the result is a little hypnotic (not to mention strange), but more importantly it's pretty damn awesome.

But as much as I love Jonze's work on the small screen, I can't wait for the man to make it back into theaters.

Director Spike Jonze has returned to music videos with a clip for Unkle entitled "Heaven." It's a gorgeously shot slo-mo return to Jonze's skateboarding days that crescendos with... well, I won't spoil it any more than the below statement from Unkle's MySpace page (and the screen grab) already does. "Heaven" was used in the acclaimed skate film Fully Flared directed by Spike Jonze and Ty Evans. The collaboration inspired the directors to take footage and re-edit a sequence of shots that shows the Lakai skateboarding team demonstrating their considerable skills as they navigate through and around various exploding obstacles. With "Heaven" as the musical backdrop, the resulting marriage of sound to picture is quite...