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Spike Jonze
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Biography
Adam Spiegel (born October 22, 1969), known professionally as Spike Jonze, is an American director, producer and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Charlie Kaufman, which include the 1999 film Being John Malkovich and the 2002 film Adaptation., and for his work as director of the 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are. He was also a co-creator and executive producer of MTV's Jackass. He is currently the creative director of VBS.tv. He is also part owner of skateboard company Girl Skateboards with riders Rick Howard and Mike Carroll. He also co-founded Directors Label with filmmakers Chris Cunningham and Michel Gondry. Description above from the Wikipedia article Spike Jonze, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Notable films
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Highlights from credits and KinoChain journeys.
Being John Malkovich
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Her
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Jackass: The Movie
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Where the Wild Things Are
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Jackass Number Two
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Synecdoche, New York
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The Fall
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Mi Vida Loca
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Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
Metamorphosis: Bodies in Flux
From Kafka's insect to Cronenberg's flesh, a journey through cinema's most profound transformations, where identity itself is the shape-shifter.
7 films
The Threshold of Nowhere
From a furniture store's hidden door to the endless corridors of the mind, this chain maps the liminal spaces where dread and wonder collide.
8 films
Wild Hearts: Feral Children and the Call of the Wild
From the forests of 18th-century France to the animated jungles of Mowgli, a journey through cinema's feral children and their quest for belonging.
7 films
The Art of the Fall
From viral infamy to quiet vindication: a chain of films about bold artists whose audacity is mistaken for failure, tracing the same arc that turned Raygun from...
8 films
The Ghosts Our Machines Keep
A chain about virtual reality, digital afterlife and grief, beginning with Yeon Sang-ho's Paradise Lost and moving through Korean and international cinema's scr...
8 films
When Slapstick Becomes Endurance Art
A chain that starts with grown men stapling themselves to each other and ends somewhere near Buster Keaton, via a Belgian postman and a man who actually ate his...
8 films
Grit and Grace in the City of Angels
From Boyle Heights to South Central, these eight films reveal Los Angeles as a place of struggle, resilience, and unexpected beauty.
7 films
Escapes from Broken Realities
A journey through films where children and the childlike build imaginative refuges from fractured worlds, celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Terry Gilliam...
8 films
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Jackass 4.5
2022 · Self
Jackass Forever
2022 · Self
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa .5
2014 · Gloria / Self
Her
2013 · Alien Child (voice)
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
2013 · Gloria
Jackass 3.5
2011 · Self
Jackass 3D
2010 · Self
Where the Wild Things Are
2009 · Bob (voice) / Terry (voice)
Jackass 2.5
2007 · Self
Jackass Number Two
2006 · Self
Three Kings
1999 · Conrad Vig
Mi Vida Loca
1994 · Teenage Drug Customer
