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Alexander Cox (born Bebington,Cheshire, 15 December 1954) is a British film director, screenwriter, nonfiction author and sometime actor, notable for his idiosyncratic style and approach to scripts. Cox experienced success early in his career with Repo Man and Sid and Nancy, but since the release and commercial failure of Walker, he has focused his career in independent films.
Cox has cited Luis Buñuel and Akira Kurosawa as influences, as well as the great Western film directors Sergio Leone, Sam Peckinpah and John Ford. Cox also wrote a book on the history of the genre called 10,000 Ways to Die. While he once directed films for Universal Pictures, such as Repo Man and Walker, since the late 1980s, he has found himself on a self-described blacklist, and turned to producing independent films. Cox is an atheist and is decidedly left wing in his political views. Many of his films have an explicit anti-capitalist theme or message. He was originally set to direct Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas but was replaced by Terry Gilliam due to creative differences with Hunter S. Thompson. By August 2009, Cox had announced completion of Repo Chick, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival the following month, but he remained ambivalent as to whether the film would ever be distributed to cinemas. His previous film, Searchers 2.0, was not released theatrically, and only appears on DVD in Japan and North America after a televised screening in the UK on the BBC.
Alex Cox talks about "Ikiru" (1952) directed by Akira Kurosawa.
Henry steels himself against the madness of the more than two decade long effort to adapt Hunter S. Thompson's classic 1972 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to the silver screen. Part one of two. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/disregardingh Don't forget to subscribe! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ToRegardOrNotToRegard Twitter: https://twitter.com/DisRegardingH Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/disregardinghenry
The Visiting Artists Series presents a discussion with Director Alex Cox, about his film Walker. Moderated by Professor Andy Stasiulis. Born in England in 1954, ALEX studied film at Bristol University before journeying to America and continuing his education at UCLA. Alex has written and directed several feature films including REPO MAN, SID AND NANCY, STRAIGHT TO HELL, and THREE BUSINESSMEN. In addition, ALEX was a presenter on the long-running series MOVIEDROME for the BBC. ALEX is also the author of several books such as 10,000 Ways to Die: A Director’s Take on the Spaghetti Western and a career memoir entitled X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker. Currently, ALEX writes a monthly column for Film Comment magazine and is about to begin production on TOMBSTONE RASHOMON, an...
Alex Cox (Repo Man and Sid & Nancy director), says "[Here's] my response to Errol Morris' documentary for the New York Times website, "The Umbrella Man" - and the first of several short films I'll post in connection with the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination, and my book, The President and the Provocateur: The Parallel Lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald." http://feralhouse.com/the-president-and-the-provocateur/ President John F. Kennedy was said to have been murdered by a lone crazed gunman in a Dallas motorcade a half-century ago. The accused killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, was also murdered under mysterious circumstances just a couple days later. Alex Cox, like most of the American and British public, does not buy into the moth-eaten establishment tale about the regicide. The Presid...
'Shoot If You Live' (2011) Part one of a 25 minutes short documentary in which British writer/director/actor Alex Cox highlights and documents moments from his career in cinema. Music by Vanessa Van Basten, taken from the albums 'Vanessa Van Basten' (2005) and 'La Stanza Di Swedenborg' (2006) http://vanessavanbasten.tumblr.com/ - http://www.alexcox.com/ - http://www.cultreviews.com -
Alex Cox talks about "Ikiru" (1952) directed by Akira Kurosawa.
Henry steels himself against the madness of the more than two decade long effort to adapt Hunter S. Thompson's classic 1972 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to the silver screen. Part one of two. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/disregardingh Don't forget to subscribe! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ToRegardOrNotToRegard Twitter: https://twitter.com/DisRegardingH Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/disregardinghenry
The Visiting Artists Series presents a discussion with Director Alex Cox, about his film Walker. Moderated by Professor Andy Stasiulis. Born in England in 1954, ALEX studied film at Bristol University before journeying to America and continuing his education at UCLA. Alex has written and directed several feature films including REPO MAN, SID AND NANCY, STRAIGHT TO HELL, and THREE BUSINESSMEN. In addition, ALEX was a presenter on the long-running series MOVIEDROME for the BBC. ALEX is also the author of several books such as 10,000 Ways to Die: A Director’s Take on the Spaghetti Western and a career memoir entitled X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker. Currently, ALEX writes a monthly column for Film Comment magazine and is about to begin production on TOMBSTONE RASHOMON, an...
Alex Cox (Repo Man and Sid & Nancy director), says "[Here's] my response to Errol Morris' documentary for the New York Times website, "The Umbrella Man" - and the first of several short films I'll post in connection with the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination, and my book, The President and the Provocateur: The Parallel Lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald." http://feralhouse.com/the-president-and-the-provocateur/ President John F. Kennedy was said to have been murdered by a lone crazed gunman in a Dallas motorcade a half-century ago. The accused killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, was also murdered under mysterious circumstances just a couple days later. Alex Cox, like most of the American and British public, does not buy into the moth-eaten establishment tale about the regicide. The Presid...
'Shoot If You Live' (2011) Part one of a 25 minutes short documentary in which British writer/director/actor Alex Cox highlights and documents moments from his career in cinema. Music by Vanessa Van Basten, taken from the albums 'Vanessa Van Basten' (2005) and 'La Stanza Di Swedenborg' (2006) http://vanessavanbasten.tumblr.com/ - http://www.alexcox.com/ - http://www.cultreviews.com -
Highway Patrolman / El patrullero (1991) Dirigida por Alex Cox Más información en: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105114/
BasilicaScope14 - Alex Cox & Rudy Wurlitzer at Basilica Hudson September 20, 2014 in Hudson, NY. WALKER Q&A; with Darrel Hartmen.
Played by Alex Cox 7th April 2014 www.twitch.tv/5daygamers
Straight to Hell is a 1987 independent action-comedy film directed by Alex Cox, and starring Sy Richardson, Joe Strummer (frontman of The Clash), Dick Rude, and Courtney Love. The film also features cameos by Dennis Hopper, Grace Jones, Elvis Costello, and Jim Jarmusch. Band members of The Pogues, Amazulu, and The Circle Jerks are also featured in the film. The film's title is based on The Clash's 1982 song of the same name. The film has been called a parody of Spaghetti Westerns, and focuses on a gang of criminals who become stranded in the desert, where they stumble upon a surreal Western town full of coffee-addicted killers. The film is based on Giulio Questi's Spaghetti Western film, Django, Kill! (If You Live, Shoot!) (1967), which Cox was given permission to adapt. -----------------...
At a special San Francisco screening of WALKER (1987), the film’s director Alex Cox (REPO MAN, SID AND NANCY, STRAIGHT TO HELL) introduces it, and following the movie is joined by the film’s sound designer Richard Beggs in a discussion moderated by V. Vale of RE/Search Publications. The event was organized by David Martinez and presented by Howard Zinn Book Fair. Joe Strummer The Clash
http://www.runningwildfilms.com - Our video blog series, GUS AND TRAVIS talk film. This episode focuses on the work of director Alex Cox. Some of the films discussed include Repo Man, Sid & Nancy, Walker, Highway Patrolman, Three Businessmen, Revenger's Tragedy, Searches 2.0, and Tombstone-Rashomon. http://www.facebook.com/runningwildfilms http://www.runningwildfilms.com/
Join three of Findmypast's in-house experts: Paul Nixon, Estelle Calfe and Alex Cox, as they introduce you to the fascinating, sometimes maddening, but always rewarding, world of genealogy and show you how to find your ancestors and discover their stories.
Scary Game Squad returns with Soma, a game about throwing crap around your apartment and apparently something scary happens. I'm guessing a broken window! Soma is a 2015 sci-fi survival horror developed by Frictional Games, and is being played on PS4. Scary Game Squad is: Jesse - @JesseCox Davis - @TeamDavis Jirard - @JKCompletesIt Alex - @FacianeA • Watch Cox n' Crendor on http://www.youtube.com/coxncrendor • Listen to Cox n' Crendor in the Morning! The best PODCAST! On iTunes!: https://soundcloud.com/coxncrendor http://feeds.feedburner.com/soundclou... • Get epic OMFGCata gear! http://www.rodeoarcade.com/collection... • Stay connected! Twitter - http://twitter.com/jessecox Facebook - http://facebook.com/thejessecox Reddit - http://reddit.com/r/shaboozey • Send your fan mail to:...