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Alex Cox: Repo Man
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Alex Cox (Repo Man, Sid and Nancy) directs this story of William Walker, a real life American soldier of fortune/doctor/lawyer/journalist who leads a bloody and violent invasion of Nicaragua at the request of a baron named Cornelius. Walker declares himself the president of the country because America has a moral right to "protect our neighbours from oppression". Cox continually screws with the audience with his anachronistic humour by populating the world of 1855 with computers, cigarette machines and helicopters in this bold satire. With music by Joe Strummer and starring Ed Harris, it seems this film might be laying low due to it resembling another American president who "protects our neighbours from oppression". Letterboxed.
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Alex Cox's stylish, twisted tale updates a 17th-century Thomas Middleton play. Christopher Eccleston stars as a man who returns to a post-apocalyptic Liverpool after a decade in self-imposed exile, ready to seek a bloody vengeance on depraved duke Derek Jacobi, who murdered Eccleston's bride on their wedding day, by ingratiating his way into the duke's family. Eddie Izzard, Diana Quick, Anthony Booth ... star. 100 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1; audio commentary by Cox, Izzard; "making of" documentary; featurettes; storyboards; photo gallery; theatrical trailer; more.
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From "Repo Man" to "Sid & Nancy" and "Straight to Hell", Alex Cox has made some of the most original movies of recent years. His latest film, "Revengers Tragedy", is an updated version of Thomas Middleton's 17th century play that's set in post-apocalypse Liverpool.
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British cineastes love Alex Cox for his BBC series Moviedrome, which highlighted cult films. Until its demise in 1994, it was required viewing on a Sunday night, when Cox would pop up and introduce a couple of short films that he felt were neglected, interesting or screwed-up. This was when "cult" didn't have that sniffy sense of intellectual superiority. A lot of filmmakers cite Cox's excellent Moviedrome introductions as kicking off their interest in cinema. Unseen since their original broadcast, they've now popped up on YouTube. The very first Moviedrome introduction, above, for The Wicker Man... features Cox's definition of cult.
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[T]he American media have been eagerly complicit in masking the true nature of this corporatist agenda, Cox noted. "The Washington Post ran an article based on Rudmin's research into the war plans at the National Archives. As Rudmin pointed out, there was a code name for Germany: Black. But the Post reporter outright lied, pretending there was ... a 'War Plan Black.' There wasn't. There were too many American corporations –IBM, Ford, DuPont, Standard Oil – doing business with the Nazis to permit such possibilities. So apparently it's the Washington Post's job to reverse the truth, via scurrilous, lazy fudges."
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Alex was born outside Liverpool in 1954. He studied at Wirral Grammar School and then Worcestor College, Oxford, graduating from Bristol University and UCLA. Alex has written and directed many films, including Repo Man, which opened at the Berlin Film Festival in 1984, Sid and Nancy, which was screened at the Cannes Festival in 1984 and Revengers Tragedy, filmed in Liverpool in 2001. In 1997 Alex formed his own company Exterminating Angel Productions, with business partner Tod Davies, with whom he has co-written many screenplays such as Backtrack, Restless, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Keith Moon.
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