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...hell is the video on this list? For me, it’s a contextual thing. I can’t be objective about this guy—he altered the course of my life back in the day. And in that day, he and Mark Romanek made a video for “Devil’s Haircut,” which featured a similar concept—Beck walks around the city, and then in the last 30 seconds, we revisit all the key shots and see close-ups of secret government agents spying...
...Mark Romanek?s powerful visualizing of this Trent Reznor ballad accrued more poignancy when the singer died at 71 last September. Less than four minutes long, it?s a condensed photo-autobiography of Cash?s half century in public life. A DVD of this haunting, heartbreaking video is included in Cash?s CD, ?American IV: The Man Comes Around...
...these directors, the most deservedly sought-after is Mark Romanek. An master of lighting and color effects, Romanek frequently takes an askew approach to his subjects’ celebrity to warp his audiences’ preconceptions. In Fiona Apple’s “Criminal,” he takes the barely legal sensuality of the singer and sullies it in decidedly illicit ways, and in the highly regarded “Hurt,” he lays out the iconic legend of Johnny Cash in flashes of archival footage until offering the ailing singer at his most vulnerable...
...artistic validity can be found within the recently issued “Work of Director” DVD series. Each disc compiles the best works from three auteurs who have yanked the medium from its greenback roots and catapulted it firmly into the realm of fine art. Where Romanek embraces and manipulates the pervading connotations carried by musicians, these three directors demonstrate a fierce unwillingness to compromise with the cookie-cutter, performance-oriented standards presented on TRL. Instead, they ardently pursue their personal vision, while directly engaging the music or abstractly absorbing its themes...
Moreover, the song Cash had to enact, by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, is an intense cry of pain dished out and taken--a dirge for a life misspent in rancor. "The facet of John that it explores is serious, somber and angry," Romanek notes. "But between takes, the John Cash I saw was someone more active and sprightly than he looks in the video." When Romanek asked the singer's wife June Carter Cash if she would appear briefly in the video, the Man in Black puckishly suggested, "Yeah, honey, why don't you dance naked...