We loved The Hurt Locker, and felt it deserved all the Oscars it raked in. It was edgy, it was tough, it was accomplished, it was indie: bravo, Hurt Locker, and bravo, Kathryn Bigelow! However, while The Hurt Locker did make Bigelow the first woman to take home a directing Academy Award, it’s not her greatest cinematic work. No, that would have to go to her late-’80s 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, doesn’t give New Order their usual po’ faced, artsy post-modern video trappings: instead, she outfits them in leather and spandex like they were Motley Crue, Aquanet wigs and all, and gets Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook to headbang! Drummer Stephen Morris twists drumsticks and shakes his spiky black mane like he was Tommy Lee, while keyboardist Gillian Gilbert shamelessly rocks a keytar!  Yes, New Order truly let their hair down in this clip–Hook even rocks a W.A.S.P.-style codpiece! Pure class. Rae Dawn Chong even makes an ’80s-tastic cameo! Watching this, one is reminded not of The Hurt Locker, but more that Bigelow once directed Point Break. Who knew she had such a sense of humor, though? If anything, “Touched By The Hand Of God” should at least qualify her to direct Jack Black in something…