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Interdisciplinary looks at the secondary careers of movie directors—or the movie-directing efforts of people best known for something else—to consider the deeper connections between two different kinds of work by the same artist.

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Six Michael Bay music videos that help explain the art of Michael Bay

by Noel Murray

Before the Transformers films, before Armageddon, before Bad Boys, Michael Bay was once a director of flashy music videos. But even the first of those videos, an “edgy” clip for Donny Osmond, contains the seed of his future style.

  • Spike Lee hasn’t made that many videos. But those he has made reveal a lot about his career, and the ways he’s refused to let himself be pigeonholed by others’ concerns and expectations.

    Spike Lee, music video director

    by Noel Murray
  • What started as a hobby for the director—one born of his success with The Godfather—became a thriving business, and perhaps a metaphor for his filmmaking style.

    Francis Ford Coppola takes the same approach to wine and film

    by Noel Murray
  • The prolific musician has a comparatively slight directorial resumé, made up of ragtag, fascinating films that are more personally revealing than work made by directors with way more knowhow.

    The dovetailing music and film careers of Neil Young

    by Noel Murray
  • Cameron Crowe's rock-journalism career heavily informs his film work, and both navigate a fine line between sincerity and sappiness. His lead characters mimic his early life either literally or metaphorically, but at least he knows it.

    Cameron Crowe, rock journalist

    by Noel Murray
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