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Alex Cox
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Alex Cox is one of the most consistently interesting filmmakers of the past 20 years. Although probably best known for his early cult successes Repo Man (1984) and Sid and Nancy (1986), Cox has maintained a steady output of films that are every bit as unique, personal and idiosyncratically inventive as those early hits. A true maverick whose political passion and passion for the cinema unite in an often anarchistic rejection of Hollywood norms – the 'corporatisation of storytelling' – and Hollywood itself. He permanently alienated himself from the studio system with his feverish, surreal and largely suppressed historical allegory Walker (1987), an attack on American foreign policy that is conceptually and politically bolder than Oliver Stone's wildest dreams. In the years that followed he chose, like his hero Buñuel, to live and work in Mexico. More recently he has returned to his native Liverpool, England where his latest film, The Revengers Tragedy (2002) was set.
Alex Cox, whose first feature film Repo Man was one of last year’s unofficial screen triumphs, sits humorously fielding a rant against punk. All this tenth anniversary crapola is just an excuse to wallow in insignificance, the NME looking backwards in search of its own finest moment. A complete negation of now and a fortuitous chance to glance over the shoulder of musical history to find a time when all was hip, aggressive and political.
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One of the great British film iconoclasts, Alex Cox has spent his entire working life on the edge of what can realistically be described as 'the mainstream'. After he ditched early plans for a career in law he attended filmmaking and writing courses at Bristol University and UCLA and segued into directing via a short film made with friends. His first feature, Repo Man, was made at the height of the Reagan era and posed serious questions about the political direction of the United States. Featuring car repossesors, time travel and aliens, it became an immediate cult classic and propelled Cox's career into orbit.
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Excitable American "art dealer" Bennie Reyes (Miguel Sandoval) and prim British "art dealer" Frank King (Alex Cox) meet by chance in the abandoned restaurant of a Liverpool hotel. But when they set off together in search of dinner, the two businessmen spend one increasingly strange night traveling to several odd eateries in five different countries. Can they agree on anything? Will they ever find something to eat? And where exactly is the third businessman? This surreal mix of Beckett, Bunuel, and beyond is directed by Alex Cox (REPO MAN, STRAIGHT TO HELL, SID & NANCY) and written by Tod Davies (FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS), and features a mighty version of the classic cowboy song "Ghost Riders In The Sky" performed by Debbie Harry.
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A philosophical comedy from Alex Cox ("Walker") tells of an American art dealer (Miguel Sandoval) who meets a British art dealer (Cox) in an abandoned Liverpool hotel restaurant. When they are unable to locate food, they search for an eatery, and the situation presents a surprising amount of satiric situations. With Robert Wisdom, Isabel Ampudia. 81 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono; audio commentary by Cox; scene access.
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Alex Cox was born in Bebington, Wirral, Nr. Liverpool, Merseyside. Cox studied at Wirral Grammar School and later at Worcester College, Oxford, then embarking upon a course in film studies at Bristol University and UCLA in California.
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