James Franco directs Lindsay Lohan in new R.E.M. music video

A forbidding mixture of droning guitars and sub-Beat poetry about the ocean and Walt Whitman, R.E.M.'s "Blue" didn't seem like a song in need of additional artiness when it closed the veteran alt-rock band's 2011 swan song, "Collapse Into Now."

By Mikael Wood

November 17, 2012