10. "Wonderboy," Tenacious D
Hearing Tenacious D's epic ballad about two super-powered mortal enemies-turned-rock-band, Jonze envisioned band members Jack Black and Kyle Gass as noble warriors on a Tolkienesque quest to climb a mountain. The dramatic shots of Black scaling the snowy peak and Gass playing a lute culminate in Black fighting an unseen creature in a cavern and getting run through with his own sword. Peter Jackson couldn't have done it better.

9. "Feel the Pain," Dinosaur Jr.
A whimsical romp, this video features the band driving a golf cart out of a moving tractor-trailer and cruising around Manhattan playing golf in traditional outfits. They rumble with businessmen in Central Park and play the ball wherever it ends up, be it in a fountain or in the eye socket of an innocent bystander.

8. "Flashing Lights," Kanye West
Not officially released by West (it was one of three made for the song), Jonze's version features a Playboy model driving her car into the desert, stripping off and burning her clothes, then opening her trunk to reveal West himself tied up and gagged inside, before stabbing him to death with a shovel. So, basically, this video gets more awesome every day.

7. "Praise You," Fatboy Slim
Filmed without permits, the low-fidelity video shows the Torrance Community Dance Group performing a highly choreographed routine for people in line at a movie theater. It won Breakthrough Video, Best Direction and Best Choreography at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards, although it was credited to the TCDG, which is led by Jonze's alter ego, Richard Koufey.

6. "It's Oh So Quiet," Bjork
Bjork showed her frivolous side in this video, which matches the song's loud-quiet-loud pattern with spontaneous outbreaks of choreographed dancing straight out of a Hollywood musical. Except in Bjork and Jonze's world, the joy of love also makes the mailbox dance, pillars move around and Bjork do a running flip off of a wall.

5. "Buddy Holly," Weezer
Back when Weezer was good, they got Jonze to digitally insert them into the TV show Happy Days, playing at Al's Diner for Fonzie, Richie and the rest of the original cast. A feat of filmmaking, and the winner of four 1995 VMAs.

4. "Weapon of Choice," Fatboy Slim
Everybody loves Christopher Walken, especially when he's tap-dancing around an empty hotel in this video, and most especially when he starts inexplicably flying around the lobby.

3. Adaptation
His second pairing with surrealist screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, Jonze created a world where there are two Nicolas Cages, and we're okay with that. The pair are twin screenwriters, named Charlie and Donald Kaufman, and while Donald sells trash, Charlie agonizes over adapting a book with no narrative, and ultimately begins writing himself into his script, with reality-bending results.

2. "Sabotage," The Beastie Boys
Awwwww! Arguably the Beasties' greatest and most famous video (yes, even better than "Fight for Your Right"), this parody of 1970s cop shows had the group's members running and driving around the city streets in bad wigs, large mustaches and vintage clothes, busting perps, conducting interrogations and fighting kung-fu masters. Although shut out at the 1994 VMAs, it won a belated award at the 2009 ceremony.

1. Being John Malkovich
Jonze's first collaboration with Kaufman, this film was almost Being Tom Cruise, since Malkovich was not interested in playing the role of an actor with a tunnel that leads into his brain. Luckily, he broke down and played a more pretentious version of himself, as well as a puppeteer version (when he is possessed by John Cusack's character), and several nightmare versions (when he enters his own brain). A trippy head-rush, the film is endlessly hysterical and supremely creepy, and features more Malkovich than any other movie before or since.

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