08
Mar
2010
Vintage Video: Kathryn Bigelow’s video for New Order’s ‘Touched By the Hand of God’
It’s no secret that Kathryn Bigelow — who last night became the first woman to win the Academy Award for best director — didn’t always helm Oscar-quality fare (we’re looking at you, “Point Break”) prior to “The Hurt Locker.” But in addition to some early-career cheese, she’s also got a New Order video on her IMDB credits: the 1987 clip for “Touched By the Hand of God,” shown above, in which she dressed Bernard Sumner and Co. up as a hair-metal band. And if you watch closely, that’s supposedly Bill Paxton and Rae Dawn Chong in the car-smashing/makeout scene.
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Tags: Academy Award, Bernard Sumner, Bill Paxton, Kathryn Bigelow, New Order, Oscars, Point Break, Rae Dawn Chong, The Hurt Locker, Touched By the Hand of God
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[...] music video for New Order’s “Touched By The Hand Of God”!!! Props to the Slicing Up Eyeballs blog for dredging this one up, because it is a stone classic. Bigelow, genius that she is, [...]
[...] before she became the first woman to win a Best Director Oscar, Kathryn Bigelow directed a New Order video, in which she dressed the synthpop heavies up as a hair-metal [...]