This video is one of my favorite movies of the year, so far:

Incidentally, music videos ARE movies. Among others, critic Armond White has given serious consideration and exposure to the medium as a form of cinema in its own right. There's a fascinating overview here .

A simple video, just the band in a room playing the song, but this one always grabs me.

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Cue

cool thread. ifc has an article on the filmmakers whove worked with radiohead here.

Wong Kar Wai, DJ Shadow, Mos Def. Need I say more?

Finally I get to see WKW's DJ Shadow flick. (Somehow, enough time always passed between my reading about it and being in front of a computer, so I always forgot to just look for it.) Thanks for the link!

Keeping it going, with another music vid by a great director, here's Wenders' spot for U2's "Night & Day":

Another Friday, another music video for the thread. Crazy dayglo visuals on this, post mainly for the glory of Robert Palmer's voice and the muscularity of Tony Thompson's drumming.

Ciara featuring Justin Timberlake in the new song, love sex magic

part of me says they're trying too hard (which I think ciara is prone to do) but I still think it's still a pretty cool video

Want intimate? Arcade Fire perform in an elevator.

Three words, cin-e-matic!!! One word, frickkin' beautiful.

Sorry, the theme seems to be awesome vids we like. I guess just to balance things, I share this:

this string from youtube says it best:

"A toothless hobo could have done better then this abomination.

HAHAHAHAHA

The faces at 3:08 3:10 3:15

HAHAHAHAHA

That rapper looks like Peter North.

Fail. 1). Random white guy rapper who we don't really know. 2). Guitar player who has the appeal of Sam's Dad. 3). Because I said so."

lol i like the elevator music video, thanks for posting it

Impossible to excerpt here, but trust me, this is worth your time: http://www.inbflat.net/

Portishead. A short film that is as visually evocative of by gone spy films as their haunting music. Singer Beth Gibbons does an admirable job as the ever morphing femme fatale.

It's a USA Today explainogram gone mad!

Blur, "Coffee & TV" - as heroic and moving in its way as Pixar's UP:

The new single from Lily Allen, featuring an unsubtly subtle video:

It only semi-qualifies as a music video, but Craig Ferguson's cold open from a couple of nights back is too delightful not to share...

This simply must be shared:

check this out!

thanks for posting hclarington, that was a really great song and video

check it

lego making madness!

then, there is this

This begged to be shared - a 1982 music video directed by David Lynch. For Sparks' "I Predict," no less.

Magic everywhere in this bitch...