I love Repo Man and Walker. I’m not much of a fan of Sid & Nancy, but I like Straight to Hell and Highway Patrolman.
I love Alex Cox, I can recite the dialogue of Repo Man, in fact I do every time I watch it.
“Ordinary people, I hate em.” “Life of the repo man is always intense.” “I don’t want no commies in my car and no christians either.” “John Wayne was a fag…”The hell he was…I installed two way mirrors at his pad in Brentwood and he come to the door in a dress."
Sid & Nancy is fantastic, despite the historical inaccuracies. Gotta love the cinematography. That hotel fire scene…..wow.
“Ordinary people spend their lives staying away from intense situations”
""Otto?" Auto parts!"
my three loves from him are Repo Man, Sid & Nancy and Walker.
I like Three Businessmen and Highway Patrolman
didn’t care for Straight to Hell.
Haven’t seen Death and the Compass, Revengers Tragedy or Searchers 2.0
After seeing the trailer for Repo Chick I gotta say it looks terrible. But i’ll see it if I get the chance.
Cox use to host Moviedrome and for that I am eternally grateful.
I love Alex Cox’s writing on cinema. His book on Spaghetti Westerns is a great read and excellent reference filled with insightful facs and reviews. Moviedrome and Moviedrome II book excellent books about various classic underground or cult films.
all three of these are available free to download along with some of his scripts off his website
I own a copy of the OPP Sid and Nancy it was my first Criterion I got it off eBay a while ago(back when I was hunting for Salo and Spinal Tap) for a good price.
Repo Man is another classic gem along with Walker( great Ed Harris Double Bill: Walker/ Knightriders)
I would like to see Straight to Hell and Highway Patrolman
I hope he writes more books about cinema and movie reviews and makes more films with bigger budgets
at some point he was at bat to make Fear&Loathing in Las Vegas and is given some script credit at the end of the Gillam movie although most of Alex Cox’s script was not envisioned
Alex Cox had a lot of potenially good projects that never materialized. Anyone know anymore?
I love Alex Cox’s writing on cinema. His book on Spaghetti Westerns is a great read and excellent reference filled with insightful facs and reviews. Moviedrome and Moviedrome II book excellent books about various classic underground or cult films.
all three of these are available free to download along with some of his scripts off his website
I own a copy of the OPP Sid and Nancy it was my first Criterion I got it off eBay a while ago(back when I was hunting for Salo and Spinal Tap) for a good price.
Repo Man is another classic gem along with Walker( great Ed Harris Double Bill: Walker/ Knightriders)
I would like to see Straight to Hell and Highway Patrolman
I hope he writes more books about cinema and movie reviews and makes more films with bigger budgets
at some point he was at bat to make Fear&Loathing in Las Vegas and is given some script credit at the end of the Gillam movie although most of Alex Cox’s script was not envisioned
Alex Cox had a lot of potenially good projects that never materialized. Anyone know anymore?
I’ve seen three of his films so far and loved them all. Walker is probably my favorite. A film that eternally nails the message “history repeats itself” on your head. The weird thing is that such a bizarre B-movie does that and not thousands of glorious epics. It’s way too unsubtle, sometimes so much that it becomes annoying, but it’s also too passionate to ignore and too powerful to dismiss. One really feels that Cox cares about this subject and reading more on the film and its “making of” story does nothing but confirming that. Man, the scene that Walker says to the dying man that “I’m doing the only thing that I can do, advance” (or something like this) is pure genius.
Repo Man is also fantastic. Like Walker, beyond all those amazing weirdness on the surface, there are many things going on in it. It’s the ultimate punk film. One that doesn’t suffice to show punks as people who act cool. At the same time, it criticizes and praise the punk subculture of 80s. I wrote a lame review on it that you can find on its page.
Highway Patrol man is the most traditional of three but by no means lesser. I haven’t seen it in years though. Alex Cox is a brilliant man, no doubt in that.
I’ve only seen two, “Walker” and “Repo Man”, but I love them both like the child I will never have.
Francisco J. Torres
Any fans of his here?
I really like his films, he has a new one coming out soon- Repo Chick.
Hope he made more films.
PS
Syd and Nancy was on Criterion for awhile but now is OOP….
Walker is a Criterion title now.