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Alex Cox directs the piece as if it was for the stage but it works on film even with the script in Shakespearean-esque verse. As with everything he does, Eccleston is only inches away from huge violent rage. Calm roles don’t follow him and his anger and revenge burst his veins at every point, with the violence being graphic and brutal.
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As well as directing films, Cox has helped pen screenplays for the film versions of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He has ... written on the subject of film for publications such as Sight and Sound, The Guardian, The Independent, and Film Comment. From 1988 to 1994, he presented the television series Moviedrome on BBC Two, providing introductions to a series of alternative or obscure films that would otherwise be unknown to the general public. As a film aficionado, Cox also lent his opinions to numerous film documentaries, and provided discussive introductions for ITV4's Spaghetti Western series made by Free@Last TV and directed by Katie Kinnaird. He has also provided introductions to DVDs such as the BFI edition of Kurosawa's Red Beard and Eureka Video's release of Kaneto Shindo's Onibaba.
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[R]eads the plot synopsis of Alex Cox's new film version of The Revenger's Tragedy, due to receive its London premiere on Valentine's Day of this year (2003). [1] Perhaps, at first glance, it is an ill-fitting date for the general release of a film based on a play spiced with intrigue, murder, infidelity and incest; but it is entirely appropriate to the play's twisted and dark humour, which often provokes "horrid laughter" in theatre audiences.
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At the same time, Cox is fully aware of the fickleness of political factions – even the most "progressive" ones. One of his most striking films, "Walker," was a darkly comic look at a 19th century American intervention in Nicaragua. He shot the film in Nicaragua itself, with the cooperation of the Sandinista government, in 1987, at the height of the Contra terrorist war. The Sandinistas returned to power this month with Daniel Ortega's presidential victory. But Cox sees little to celebrate in this political sequel.
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In honor of the completion of a new feature by Alex Cox, Searchers 2.0, Screengrab's Faisal Qureshi digs up this sweet little video from 1990, as the duo cover Cole Porter's "Well Did you Evah?" for the Red, White & Blue Aids project.
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Alex wrote his first Sid Vicious script in 1980 while in America and took it around the "bastions of mammon" in Hollywood to no avail. "They want films about nice middle class people who go through the trauma of divorce.
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