Friday, 23. November 2007

The Video Director Who Invented the 80s


DVD collections have celebrated the music video work of Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Mark Romanek and the like, but there is one essential name missing from the roster: Russell Mulcahy. Best known to cult film fanatics as the man behind the Highlander movies (and the newest Resident Evil film, a sad illustration of his current career arc), this Australian director is perhaps the most influential music video director of all time. Why? Because he practically pioneered the form - or should I say pioneered the form of the cheesy 80s video.

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