General sites
These sites contain general information, photos, reviews and articles relating to the video clip
Michael Abernethy
Review of Weapon of Choice on Pop matters site
Acord is MTV's cinematographer of choice
Article on the Kodak site on the cinematography in the video and the preparations for filming.
Astralwerks Weapon of choice site
Article on Weapon of Choice
BBC site
Weapon of Choice won best video of all time in April 2002, in a list of the top 100 videos of all time which was compiled from a survey of musicians, directors and music industry figures conducted by a UK music TV channel VH1.
Jason Clampett
'New Hotels for Global Nomads: a review of the exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum', In the Cause of Architecture: An Online Journal of Ideas from Archaeological Record, February 2003. I couldn't resist including this one. A video loop of Weapon of Choice featured as one of the installations at this exhibition.
Another review of the same exhibition.
Audrey Doyle
'combustion Creates Magic in Today's Hottest Music Videos'. Contains technical information on how the flying scene was done in Weapon of Chocie
Fatboy Walken Away with MTV Nods
by Mark Armstrong,
Jul 23, 2001.
Kam's Fatboy Slim site
Jeremiah Kipp
'Heroes of filmcritic.com: Christopher Walken'. General article with a paragraph on Weapon of Choice
Kim Morgan
'Christopher Walken: Praise Him'. Review of Weapon of Choice.
New Musical Express
Review
Spike Jonze Rarities
Spike Jonze at the 2003 Digital film Festival Resfest.
Stick Figure Ninja (aka Gareth Forman)
Insane animated stick figure version of Weapon of Choice. This is most impressive and mimics the video perfectly!
Watching Christopher Walken site
Various info and audio clips.
Marc Weidenbaum
'Higher Sources', Originally published in Pulse! magazine, August 2001.
Armond White
'Weapon of Choice Directed by Spike Jonze', New York Press, 11 April 2001. An excellent full length review of the video.
DVD reviews
Arseneau, Adam (2003)
Review on the DVD Verdict site.
Cunningham, Joel (2003)
Review on the Digitally Obsessed site.
Mapes, Marty (2003)
Review on the Movie habit site.
Miller, Randy (2003)
Review on DVD Talk site.
Palm Pictures
Official site for DVD.
Wong, Stephen (2003)
'Film & Disc Review, Work of Director Spike Jonze, The', Entertainment Insiders site.
Interviews
Interviews with Christopher Walken which refer to this clip
Alona Wartofsky,
'The Walken Shtick, Creepy . . . and Cool', Washington Post, August 5 2001. This interview/article talks about the clip as well as other work of Walken's
Michael Wechsler
'Christopher Walken, Dancer in the Dark', Venice magazine, January 2003. Excellent article followed by interview.
Other
This category includes sites on topics related to the subject matter of this clip
Fatboy Slim
Official site for Halfway between the Gutter and the Stars
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