Movie Mindset Bonus: Interview with Repo Man Director Alex Cox
As a special endcap to this season of Movie Mindset, Will, Hesse & Chris interview the director of Repo Man, Sid & Nancy, Walker and many others, the great Alex Cox. They discuss the Los Angeles of Repo Man, his visual style, his approach to making “political” films, and various genres, writers, and actors he admires. And of course, we get to the bottom of who killed JFK.
Alex is currently crowdfunding what may be his last movie, “My Last Movie” on Kickstarter. Please consider kicking in and becoming one of the dead souls:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexcoxfilms/my-last-movie
Comments (57)
My wife surprised me with a movie night at a local theater where they put on el patrullero. An absolutely stunning movie that made me want to watch the rest of Cox's work.
I’m watching The Player (Robert Altman) and thinking “do we all owe Vincent D’Onofrio an apology?”
Would love to see you guys review Oliver Stones "Salvador" . Think it'd be a really interesting show for the obvious historical reasons but the idea that James Woods is the lead I think would put a pretty interesting spin on the convo
Two Words: John (muthafukkin) Hughes!!! https://web.archive.org/web/20180620205238/https://prettyinpodcast.com/2016/05/31/nljoy/
Can we have a Shelley Duvall Movie Mindset please?
What an amazing guest. Sharp, funny, and he even did some homework by listening to the previous ep. Seems like an all around great guy. Did you guys ever imagine you’d have a chance to talk to a favorite director like this? Must be really rewarding.
Big props, hope you pull more interviews like this
I thought Straight to Hell was unwatchable when I was 19, but as maybe the world's only Repo Chick liker I want to give it another shot. Killer soundtrack album, though. Pogues doing the Fantasia demon song > *
scagged-out, scabby assed sid and nancy, snogging in a filthy alley while some tenement dweller throws garbage on them from the kitchen window is one of the most cinematically beautiful kisses ever put to film.
Movies like Trainspotting and the under-appreciated Spun prove that there is just no way to depict drug addiction that doesn't look romantic (even when a guy has to search through his own shit in a toilet to find a suppository). But Alex Cox's Sid & Nancy leans into that romanticism hard from both sides, the latter half of the movie basically taking place in one squalid room as two sick people love each other through the medium of heroin. It's beautiful in its disgustingness. I watched the movie as a kid in the early 90s and TOTALLY wound up becoming a drug addict. I would sue Alex if the film wasn't just so good. And Repo Man, too!
Very nice to have my Warren Oates opinion validated, and by such a high authority!
this was dope
I'm old enough to remember Moviedrome. Would love a Lindsay Anderson double on MM one day, If/O Lucky Man.
He's so warm and funny, just delightful
Great interview!!!
What a great interview, thanks guys!
Otto's tighty whities in Repo Man were part of my sexual awakening
Cox mentioned Lyndsay Anderson as an inspiration and it reminded me of Anderson's 1968 film 'If...' staring a young Malcolm McDowell, it's a pretty interesting film and worth watching to get a Rosetta stone of the elite boarding schools that produce people like David Cameron and Boris Johnson.
Possible coolest guy ever??
Alex was my screenwriting professor in college, he fuckin rules! Coolest dude, so open and free with his knowledge and time.
masters who are generous with their expertise and encouraging mastery in others are true saints and servants of humanity
What a damn treat
Think Cox means the Georgian film Repentance (87) when he is talking about the movie "about Stalin," not "Remembrance"
Was looking for that
this was awesome, thank you movie mindset
Wow Alex Cox rules that was fantastic
So cool. Cox rules.
This guy rocks
Great interview!
Dead Souls is amazing!
CHRIS: CRITERION HAS A VERY POPULAR RELEASE OF WALKER
I've ordered it! I just had needed a way to see it between when our episode dropped and when Cox's people got him in touch and we got the recording scheduled like 72 hours later and for THAT there's no (official) streaming solution.
Literally watched Walker for the first time last night. Repo man has been my favorite movie since I saw it 15 years ago. Incredible timing
Hesse says there’s a through line but fumbled it, the through line is sarcasm
god damn that ruled
Let’s go!
great interview!
I love how Cox represents punks. Understanding of what makes it interesting with absolutely no romanticism. I thought that really came across in Repo Man and Sid and Nancy.
Great interview. Chapo kills it, yet again. Also, I love the idea of Peckinpah sending Nixon anti war telegrams. Beautiful. I was not familiar with Alex Cox before this series, but I definitely have to watch his movies after this- and check out his book. What a refreshingly awesome director interview.
I'd really call WALKER a must-see for Chapo fans. If you listen to this show you would almost certainly enjoy that movie.
Did I hear a cushbomb chuckle in the beginning?
I feel like that was Chris, but I want to be wrong...
Few movies have affected me as much as Walker
This is so goddamn sweet. Thank you thank you THANK UUUU
Endcap.
About time!
Hot damn what a get
Screen actors guild oath hahahahahahaha
What a get
NO WAYYYYY
Curly tails up, snouts down
PEEEERIOD
Plate of Shrimp. 🍤
YES
wow!
What a treat!
Delicious things to eat