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Tuesday Oct 7 | SFGate

Alex Cox reflects on a radical career in film

At the climax of "Searchers 2.0," the 2007 film by offbeat director Alex Cox, two heroes - both dumpy, middle-aged ex-child actors - face off against their nemesis, an evil, sadistic screenwriter who tormented ...

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Related Topix: Arts, Cinema, Comedy Movies, Action, Repo Man, Science Fiction Movies, Sid and Nancy, Music!, Western, Drama, Biography Movies, Straight to Hell, Three Businessmen

Wed Oct 01, 2008

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Remember Repo Man?

Director Alex Cox will be at the Pickford tonight. You've got about 20 minutes! Here's the note from the Pickford's Michael Falter: Hey folks, I'll be back in the morning with this week's update But it's not ...

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Wed Sep 24, 2008

A.V. Club

Book review: X Films

Reviewed by Michaelangelo Matos September 25th, 2008 It's clear that English-born writer-director Alex Cox got into the movies to have fun.

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Related Topix: Sid and Nancy, Music!, Drama, Biography Movies, Comedy Movies, Action, Repo Man, Science Fiction Movies, Crime Movies, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Adventure, Harry Dean Stanton

Fri Sep 19, 2008

Salon.com

An indie hero comes home again

Wayne Wang emerged on the film scene 25 years ago with "Chan Is Missing," a glorious and mysterious black-and-white indie made on 16mm film and almost no budget in San Francisco's Chinatown that opened the ...

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Related Topix: Spike Lee, Black Entertainment, Asian-American, Chinese-American, Comedy Movies, Action, Repo Man, Science Fiction Movies, She's Gotta Have It, Movies, Entertainment

Thu Sep 18, 2008

The Daily Nexus

Week of 9/18

ONE! On Monday, Internet giants Amazon and IMDB announced that they would make available over 6,000 films and TV shows for free-and-legal streaming.

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Related Topix: Sid and Nancy, Comedy Movies, Music!, Drama, Biography Movies, Action, Repo Man, Science Fiction Movies

Tue Sep 02, 2008

Guardian Unlimited

Andrew Pulver on Alex Cox's central American trilogy

Alex Cox made two extremely famous films: Repo Man and Sid & Nancy. But it's his central American trilogy that really astonishes Andrew Pulver guardian.co.uk , Alex Cox.

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Related Topix: Horror, Comedy Movies, Revengers Tragedy, Sid and Nancy, Music!, Drama, Biography Movies

Fri Aug 29, 2008

Hollywood Reporter

Oldenburg International Film Festival

Four events that separate Oldenburg Venues: Nine venues, including Oldenburg Penitentiary Dates: Sept.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Europe, World News, Germany, Comedy Movies, Action, Repo Man, Science Fiction Movies, Prison

Thu Aug 28, 2008

City Beat

Rebecca Schoenkopf

Perhaps you are philistine enough to prefer the brothers Farrelly to the brothers Coen.

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Related Topix: Harry Dean Stanton

Thu Jul 24, 2008

Jalopnik

1970 Chevrolet Impala [Down On The Street]

Welcome to Down On The Street , where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California.

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Related Topix: Alameda, CA, Harry Dean Stanton, Chevrolet Impala, Chevrolet, Action, Repo Man, Comedy Movies, Science Fiction Movies

Wed Jul 09, 2008

HorrorScope

Screen Sect July Program

This July SCREEN SECT present a variety of cult and classic cinema, including horror master John Carpenter's debut Dark Star .

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Action, Repo Man, Science Fiction Movies, Thriller, Sid and Nancy, Music!, Drama, Biography Movies, Courtney Love, Western, Straight to Hell

Tue Jul 08, 2008

Television Without Pity

Someone Repossessed the '80s

Everything ever-so-slightly old is new again, as the decade of the '80s takes over the mantle of sequels, nostalgia and remakes that once belonged to previous decades.

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Related Topix: Action, Repo Man, Comedy Movies, Science Fiction Movies

Mon Jul 07, 2008

Guardian Unlimited

Alex Cox plans sequel to Repo Man

Staff and agencies Friday July 4, 2008 guardian.co.uk Repo plan ... Alex Cox Twenty four years after Alex Cox gave us Repo Man the British film-maker is searching for studio support for his follow-up, Repo ...

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Related Topix: Sid and Nancy, Music!, Drama, Biography Movies, Comedy Movies, Action, Repo Man, Science Fiction Movies

Sat Jul 05, 2008

Filmstalker

Repo Man sequel - Repo Girl?

There's going to be a sequel to Repo Man apparently, you know the cult film from Alex Cox that starred Emilio Estevez? Well this one comes from the writer/director of the original, Cox himself, but there's a ...

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Related Topix: Emilio Estevez, Action, Repo Man, Comedy Movies, Science Fiction Movies

Fri Jun 13, 2008

Hollywood.com

Kathy Burke

While Kathy Burke seemingly came out of nowhere when she was thrust into the world spotlight upon being named the winner of the Best Actress prize at the 50th Cannes Film Festival, the petite, dark-haired, ...

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Wed Jun 11, 2008

Mountain Xpress

Repo Man

Genre: New Wave/Punk Sci-Fi Comedy Directed by: Alex Cox Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Tracey Walter, Olivia Barash, Susan Barnes Back in 1984 when Alex Cox's Repo Man was released, it was just ...

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Related Topix: Tracey Walter, Susan Barnes, Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Sid and Nancy, Music!, Drama, Biography Movies, Movies, Entertainment

Wed Apr 23, 2008

Deming Headlight

Columbus Library shows "Walker' as part of film series

The Village of Columbus Public Library continues its regular Sunday film series with "MAXCXAR: The Mr. via Deming Headlight

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Related Topix: Columbus, NM, Sid and Nancy, Comedy Movies, Music!, Drama, Action, Biography Movies, Repo Man, Three Businessmen, Science Fiction Movies

Mon Apr 07, 2008

GreenCine Daily

Brooklyn Rail . April 08.

“In a historic cameo, pulp director Samuel Fuller tells Ferdinand that 'a film is like a battleground; It has love, hate, action, violence and death. In one word, emotion.' Pierrot Le Fou proves Fuller's definition of cinema to be spot-on.”

"Starting with Repo Man , director Alex Cox has successfully subverted mainstream culture with several definitive cult films," writes David Wilentz , introducing his interview in the new issue of the Brooklyn ... via GreenCine Daily

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Related Topix: Action, Repo Man, Comedy Movies, Science Fiction Movies

Thu Mar 20, 2008

Bay Guardian

Lit: Is Cox a dick?

In conjunction with my review of his new graphic novel and Repo Man sequel Waldo's Hawaiian Holiday in this week's Guardian , I set down a few questions for writer/director Alex Cox to answer via email. via Bay Guardian

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Related Topix: Action, Repo Man, Comedy Movies, Science Fiction Movies

Wed Mar 19, 2008

Bags and Boards

Updates: BEA; George convicted; Haven; Oz events

GalleyCat has details on the event. * Comics shop owner and convention organizer Michael George has been found guilty in the 1990 murder of his wife by a jury in Michigan. via Bags and Boards

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Related Topix: Electronic, Coldcut, Action, Repo Man, Comedy Movies, Science Fiction Movies

Fri Mar 14, 2008

A.V. Club

Interview: Alex Cox

Interviewed by Noel Murray March 14th, 2008 After winning accolades with his punk-oriented art films Repo Man and Sid & Nancy , director Alex Cox seemed poised to join David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, and ... via A.V. Club

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Related Topix: Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Black Entertainment, Sid and Nancy, Comedy Movies, Music!, Drama, Biography Movies, Action, Repo Man, Science Fiction Movies

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