One for ILM really, but can you help me identify this music video?

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The point of view is as if from a train moving quickly through a (middle American?) landscape. It's a dance track, quite understated, but I really liked it. As the train moves, specific aspects of the scenery pass by with the beat - the objects (a shed, a water tower, a pylon etc.) are repeated, like backgrounds in cartoons are, but always go perfectly with the rhythm. However, they change over time, so it really does look like a complete train journey.

Can anyone tell me what it might be?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

it's a chemical brothers video directed by m.gondry but i don't know the name.

― jones (actual), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"Star Guitar" I think.

― Richard C (avoid80), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

"Runaway Train" by soul asylum

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I can definitely confirm it as "Star Guitar". A rare case of the video helping me like a song even more.

― alfalfa romeo (natepatrin), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm, the video for Four Tet's "She Moves She" sounds like it is similar, but the train moves through an industrial (Japanese?) city, not a middle-American landscape.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

mark it's available on the gondry dvd referred to here ? The Directors File (Spike Jonze, Chris Cunningham, Michel Gondry) ? which is well worth seeing if you happen across it.

― jones (actual), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.thechemicalbrothers.com/disco/videos/star/

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

It's "Star Guitar"! (xpost galore)

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

God, why couldn't they have fallen into a big pit after _Come With Us_ and left my memory of them with only one blemish?

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

While we're identifying things, can someone tell me what movie the line "I hate your stupid ass face" is from? It's something really obvious, and it's bugging me.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Waiting For Guffman!

― mr obvious (avoid80), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh duh. I just watched that last weekend, that's why it's in my head. Thanks!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 September 2004 17:26 (twenty-one years ago)

bump hoping markelby will see this...

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 23 September 2004 10:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone womewhewre was asking about dialogue involving a car boot. Was it 'Jackie Brown'?

You can also get a Chemical Brothers DVD with this on it, often in what passes for the bargain bucket in DVD terms.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, i have it as a dvd single

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:08 (twenty-one years ago)

it's on the Gondry DVD too natch

― teh pow! (blueski), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

mark, the video is chemical brothers - "star guitar"

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

michel gondry did it

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean a DVD with all the Chemicrazy Brothers' video extravaganzas.

Incidentally, this video drives me up the wall.

There's one with loads of Kylies too.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

MARK IT'S 'STAR GUITAR' - HOW MANY MORE TIMES?!?!

― teh pow! (blueski), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

It's okay guys, I found out myself - it's called "Star Guitar" and it's by the Chemical Brothers. You may not know that it's directed by Michel Gondry!

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

the above video ISN'T on the new warp video compilation DVD but there are a lot of good thangs that are. out today.

ARTIST / SONG / DIRECTOR / YEAR
Sweet Exorcist "Testone" Martin Wallace & Jarvis Cocker/1990
LFO "LFO" 1991
Nightmares on Wax "Aftermath" Jarvis Cocker/1991
Aphex Twin "On" Jarvis Cocker/1993
"I Smell Quality" David Slade/1994
LFO "Tied Up" David Slade/1994
Sabres of Paradise "Wilmot" Douglas Hart/1994
Seefeel "Fracture" Seefeel/1994
Aphex Twin "Donkey Rhubarb" David Slade/1995
Autechre "Second Bad Vilbel" Chris Cunningham/1995
Aphex Twin "Come To Daddy (Directors Cut)" Chris Cunningham/1997
Squarepusher "Come on My Selector" Chris Cunningham/1997
Jimi Tenor "Midsummers Night" Jimi Tenor and Sökö Kaukoranta/1998
Aphex Twin "Windowlicker (Directors cut)" Chris Cunningham/1999
Jimi Tenor "Total Devastation" Jimi tenor and Sökö Kaukoranta/1999
Broadcast "Papercuts" Barback/2000
Jamie Lidell "Daddys Car" Frederic D/2000
John Callaghan "I'm Not Comfortable Inside My Mind"
John Callaghan / 2000
Anti-Pop Consortium "Perpendicular / Vector" Caliber 16 (Marcus Wambsganss)2001
Plaid "Eyen" Jean Luc Chansay/2001
Anti-Pop Consortium "Ghostlawns" Carlos Arias/2002
Autechre "Gantz_Graf" Alex Rutterford/2002
Aphex Twin "Nannou" Laurent Briet/2003
Chris Clark "Gob Coitus" Lynn Fox/2003
LFO "Freak (Directors Cut)" Daniel Levi/2003
Luke Vibert "I Love Acid" Delicious 9/2003
Mira Calix "Little Numba" (CR Vid) Sam Tootal/2003
Plaid "Itsu" (CR Vid) Pleix/2003
Prefuse 73 "Half Of What" (CR vid) Ed Holdsworth/2003
"Opto-Scientific" (Shown at Fondation Vasarely) tDR/2003
Beans "Mutescreamer" Adam Levite/2004
Jamie Lidell "The City" Frederic D/2004

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 27 September 2004 12:17 (twenty-one years ago)

it will be so nice to finally pwn a quality version of that Broadcast video, amongst all these other greats - can't see the point of adding the Cunningham ones tho as they're on his own DVD already.

― teh pow! (blueski), Monday, 27 September 2004 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

There is every reason for the Cunningham ones to be on there - namely because all my friends told me that the Cunningham Director DVD was an absolute scam compared to the other two, so I just bought the gondry and Jonze ones. Now I will get the Cunningham vids too!

― ___ (___), Monday, 27 September 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

well you won't get his Portishead one or 'All Is Full Of Love' - it's an 'absolute scam' perhaps because he's only directed about 10 videos ever compared to Gondry and Jonze's 30+

― teh pow! (blueski), Monday, 27 September 2004 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i ordered the Gantz Graf dvd only last week (along with two other things that i've seen cheaper since) so i feel a bit miffed at the mo. (suppose i could cancel my order, um...)

i bought the Cunningham dvd first not realising the other two were twice the size so... was only 13 quid or so anyway if you waited / looked around.

comes in bookletty form like the My Wrongs dvd.

― koogs (koogs), Monday, 27 September 2004 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

The rise and rise of Papercuts.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 27 September 2004 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

While I was buying SMILE in MVC, I overheard two members of staff discussing this video. One of their friends had tried to make his own version to go with some tune or other using a video camera and a train journey. Apparently it was 'too hard'.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

There's no need for them to make their own version. The real thing is readily available on DVD. It's by the Chemical Brothers and it's called 'Star Guitar' (dir. Michel Gondry).

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 27 September 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, is this the one with the train in it?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 27 September 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

omigod i love that video!!

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 27 September 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah. in fact. this is the reason that gondry's videos are so essential and awesome and wonderful and all that is because there is nothing else like them. i met him once and fucked it up royally. i was depressed for weeks. but it always sounds quite trite explaining it to anyone.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 27 September 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

The first time I saw the 'Star Guitar' video a coked-up madman made me watch it four times in a row, as he jabbed his finger at the screen.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 27 September 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

do i know you?

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 27 September 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

the Cunningham dvd inexplicably only has a brief clip of his "Flex" short. The full length thing is by far the best thing he's done, so it's absence is real dud-maker.

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 27 September 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

it's because they sold the full-lenght in a limited edition to collectors for 100k lbs each. i imagine them being pissed at high-quality copies being widely available.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Monday, 27 September 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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