Movie Mindset Bonus: Interview with Repo Man Director Alex Cox
Added 2024-07-03 21:09:26 +0000 UTCAs 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
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I’m watching The Player (Robert Altman) and thinking “do we all owe Vincent D’Onofrio an apology?”
original gay pussy eatah
2024-09-03 00:10:53 +0000 UTCWould 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
inspectah mossadegh
2024-08-29 16:19:27 +0000 UTCTwo Words: John (muthafukkin) Hughes!!! https://web.archive.org/web/20180620205238/https://prettyinpodcast.com/2016/05/31/nljoy/
John Mitchell
2024-07-21 03:37:53 +0000 UTCCan we have a Shelley Duvall Movie Mindset please?
PIPPA TANDY
2024-07-12 07:50:03 +0000 UTCWhat 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.
Colin C.
2024-07-10 01:23:26 +0000 UTCBig props, hope you pull more interviews like this
hamburglar
2024-07-08 13:32:31 +0000 UTCMovies 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!
The Children of Jack Acid
2024-07-05 23:14:22 +0000 UTCI 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 > *
Tim U.
2024-07-05 20:34:33 +0000 UTCmasters who are generous with their expertise and encouraging mastery in others are true saints and servants of humanity
Eon Gattignolo
2024-07-05 12:28:14 +0000 UTCscagged-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.
Eon Gattignolo
2024-07-05 12:26:38 +0000 UTCVery nice to have my Warren Oates opinion validated, and by such a high authority!
dablatney
2024-07-05 00:58:40 +0000 UTCthis was dope
Big-Stink
2024-07-04 23:38:09 +0000 UTCI'm old enough to remember Moviedrome. Would love a Lindsay Anderson double on MM one day, If/O Lucky Man.
philfinn
2024-07-04 19:38:42 +0000 UTCHe's so warm and funny, just delightful
MKatieUltra
2024-07-04 19:17:22 +0000 UTCGreat interview!!!
DNygk
2024-07-04 17:08:10 +0000 UTCWhat a great interview, thanks guys!
Bermuda Schwartz
2024-07-04 16:13:06 +0000 UTCOtto's tighty whities in Repo Man were part of my sexual awakening
Marcus Wrightus
2024-07-04 15:30:41 +0000 UTCCox 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.
Savannakhet
2024-07-04 13:48:18 +0000 UTCPossible coolest guy ever??
bruce
2024-07-04 12:28:53 +0000 UTCAlex was my screenwriting professor in college, he fuckin rules! Coolest dude, so open and free with his knowledge and time.
Jeremy Farmer
2024-07-04 12:17:07 +0000 UTCWhat a damn treat
triplehashbrown
2024-07-04 07:03:36 +0000 UTCWas looking for that
Boots Riley
2024-07-04 06:37:02 +0000 UTCThink Cox means the Georgian film Repentance (87) when he is talking about the movie "about Stalin," not "Remembrance"
Patrick Schneider
2024-07-04 03:33:53 +0000 UTCthis was awesome, thank you movie mindset
will michel
2024-07-04 02:48:01 +0000 UTCWow Alex Cox rules that was fantastic
DP
2024-07-04 02:46:46 +0000 UTCSo cool. Cox rules.
J.W.
2024-07-04 02:33:11 +0000 UTCThis guy rocks
Gabe
2024-07-04 01:09:35 +0000 UTCGreat interview!
Karl Hungus
2024-07-04 00:42:40 +0000 UTCDead Souls is amazing!
Chris T
2024-07-04 00:29:31 +0000 UTCI feel like that was Chris, but I want to be wrong...
Gabe
2024-07-04 00:22:01 +0000 UTCI'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.
Chapo Trap House
2024-07-04 00:16:45 +0000 UTCCHRIS: CRITERION HAS A VERY POPULAR RELEASE OF WALKER
Chris T
2024-07-04 00:01:09 +0000 UTCHesse says there’s a through line but fumbled it, the through line is sarcasm
Neil Evans
2024-07-03 23:22:26 +0000 UTCLiterally watched Walker for the first time last night. Repo man has been my favorite movie since I saw it 15 years ago. Incredible timing
Neil Evans
2024-07-03 23:10:54 +0000 UTCgod damn that ruled
Thom
2024-07-03 22:42:44 +0000 UTCLet’s go!
Jack Rockwood
2024-07-03 22:18:14 +0000 UTCgreat interview!
The Fine Art Revolution
2024-07-03 22:17:16 +0000 UTCI'd really call WALKER a must-see for Chapo fans. If you listen to this show you would almost certainly enjoy that movie.
Chapo Trap House
2024-07-03 22:14:02 +0000 UTCI 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.
Simon
2024-07-03 22:12:35 +0000 UTCGreat 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.
Isaac Suárez
2024-07-03 22:11:12 +0000 UTCDid I hear a cushbomb chuckle in the beginning?
Carter
2024-07-03 22:04:45 +0000 UTCFew movies have affected me as much as Walker
Andy Cameron
2024-07-03 22:03:28 +0000 UTCThis is so goddamn sweet. Thank you thank you THANK UUUU
Malaparte_Animal
2024-07-03 21:46:31 +0000 UTCEndcap.
Whucko Jaang
2024-07-03 21:44:29 +0000 UTCAbout time!
originalpureart
2024-07-03 21:41:01 +0000 UTCHot damn what a get
Michael Ehrenreich
2024-07-03 21:35:06 +0000 UTCScreen actors guild oath hahahahahahaha
Eddie Verzella
2024-07-03 21:34:38 +0000 UTCDelicious things to eat
T
2024-07-03 21:30:45 +0000 UTCWhat a get
Ozzie
2024-07-03 21:29:36 +0000 UTCNO WAYYYYY
Claire Simon
2024-07-03 21:27:37 +0000 UTCCurly tails up, snouts down
C. Ries
2024-07-03 21:27:23 +0000 UTCPEEEERIOD
Malaparte_Animal
2024-07-03 21:27:06 +0000 UTCPlate of Shrimp. 🍤
Dimebag D.A.R.Y.L
2024-07-03 21:26:58 +0000 UTCYES
T
2024-07-03 21:26:39 +0000 UTCwow!
TLT
2024-07-03 21:26:13 +0000 UTCWhat a treat!
Bert
2024-07-03 21:22:12 +0000 UTC
