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Once the hippest name in music videos, the 40-year-old director will this week terrify children with his adaption of Maurice Sendak's adored tale A large rubber-band ball sits on the bedside table of the wilful young Max, hero of the new Spike Jonze film, while overhead, on a shelf, sits a bird's nest.

WILD Things. It made my heart sing. It made everything...groooovehh. Which is just as well, frankly.

The well-connected director is very good at getting his own way, hence his family unfriendly take on kids' classic, Where The Wild Things Are Saturday, 05 December 2009 Ten years after Being John Malkovich, there are still few people's heads you'd pay to spend 15 minutes inside as much as Spike Jonze's. It would be easy to imagine life from his ...

Since the slacker movies of the late 90s several possible new cinema movements have been identified, heralded and just as quickly disappeared! There was the New Zealand renaissance, a sort of Aussie low budget shock horror rebirth but Hollywood snapped up the good ones and things in Oz just continue to get darker.

Wild Things "not for little kids" Director fought with the studio over film New movies, movie news, movie reviews IT WAS day one of shooting on the Melbourne set of Where The Wild Things Are, the long-awaited movie adaptation of Maurice Sendak's beloved children's book about an unruly boy made king on an island of monsters.

"SAY PLEASE" VIDEO UNVEILED, VIDEO CONTEST FOR "DEAR GOD " Monsters of Folk Following a first-ever U.S. fall tour and unabashed praise for their self-titled debut album, Monsters of Folk are moving full-steam ahead with the unveiling of their new video for their brilliant single, "Say Please." Shot by acclaimed cinematographer Lance Acord, renowned ...

Spike Jonze had a pretty impeccable record, from directing Christopher Walken's triumphal dance in the video for Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice," to producing MTV's transcendently stupid pain-porn Jackass , to his magnificent collaborations with Charlie Kaufman on Being John Malkovich and Adaptation .

NEW YORK/SANTA MONICA, October 29, 2009 - "Where the Wild Things Are," directed by Spike Jonze and based on Maurice Sendak's classic children's story, debuted in the top spot at the box office this week.

In her 1974 essay "Family Structure and Feminine Personality," Nancy Chodorow posited that maternal bonding and absent fathers lead boys to define their masculinity through traumatic separation and defensive individuation.

Absolut, the Pernod Ricard-owned vodka brand, has signed an a oeartistic partnershipa with US film director Spike Jonze.

"Where the Wild Things Are" is depressing, dull and dysfunctional. Childhood fans of the book should beware that a few creatively illustrated pages with fewer words than this review simply cannot be the basis of a feature length motion picture.

Renowned Cinematographer Lance Acord Set for Keynote Conversation during Los Angeles HD EXPO - Createasphere ignite Strategic Marketing & PR October 27th, 2009 October 27, 2009 Acclaimed American cinematographer Lance Acord will share insights and experiences in an up-close Conversation with American Cinematographer Magazine's Associate Editor Jon ...

The next meeting of the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group will be Wednesday, Oct 28, beginning at 6:45 pm at the Gallery Theater in Hollywood California.

Amateur critics and hip-hop fans everywhere grew puzzled at today's release of "We Were Once A Fairy Tale", a Kanye West/Spike Jonze short film originally filmed for the launch of 808s and Heartbreaks .

It seems that many of you must have taken that Kanye West/Spike Jonze film a little too seriously.

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Once upon a time, children's books were, as Sue Karp wrote in our Books issue a few weeks ago, "moralistic grammars" or didactic poems .

Spike Jonze's film adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book, Where the Wild Things Are , has been the buzz of critics and filmgoers alike since its opening last weekend.

Adapting a beloved children's classic into a feature film is often a very dangerous, and usually unsuccessful, task.

This is your fathera s Sendak. If your father is a super-hipster. Ryan Senaga Oct 21, 2009 Director Spike Jonze has always been one of our most creatively playful contemporary filmmakers .