Every now and then I do a search on Moviedrome, to see if any new (read: unearthed) introductions have popped up and it looks like there’s a handful of new ones. High time then to update my Moviedrome page then.
One of the more peculiar introductions by Alex Cox was the one for Jabberwocky. It’s not as much a movie introduction as it’s… no, that would be telling.
To say Repo Chick was critically loved would be somewhat of an exaggeration. In fact, between the actual first screening (somewhere in 2009) and its proper release (on DVD in 2011), not many films were given such a bad press as this film. Surely all those critics couldn’t be wrong… Or could they…?
Repo Chick shouldn’t be reviewed as any other film. Not even as any other film by Alex Cox. Cox is of course famous for hosting a BBC2 movie show in the late 80s to mid 90s as well as directing a string of cult movies. With Sid and Nancy and Repo Men, he even helmed two cult classics. You might want to see Cox’s movies on DVD, but it’s not always easy. Walker was deemed so controversial the distributors would rather leave it rot on the shelves than allowing the fans to watch it. In the times people still watched films on VHS, Cox himself once found his film in a store… it cost 80 pounds.
Then again, Alex Cox isn’t the easiest man on the planet. Nevertheless, it is he who wrote and directed a cult classic such as Repo Man, so what did the distributors do when they heard Cox was thinking of a sequel to said classic?
Here’s an interview with Alex Cox. In this interview he…
- doesn’t speak highly of Moviedrome… again (sigh).
- reveals David Lynch’s company tried to prevent Repo Chick from screening.
- laments that the studios have won (aided by the horrible Jude Law, no less)
- talks about directing while you’re being blacklisted
Repo Chick is the new film by Alex Cox, director of a.o. cult classic Repo Men. In the film, repo chick and wealthy bad-girl Pixxi, together with her entourage, get mixed up in a devious kidnapping plot that threatens to wipe out the city of Los Angeles.
Here’s the director in a making of (made by Kim Ryan) talking about the film. Embedding wasn’t possible, so here are the links: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
As most of you know, my name is a reference to the excellent tv programme Moviedrome, once hosted by director Alex Cox (and later by Mark Cousins). One of the biggest prides of my website is that it includes the definite guide to Moviedrome. At one point I included a couple of mistakes, because people just copied it and posted it on their sites without reference to my hard work compiling the cult movie show that ran for 11 years. (If you’re interested, if you spot Amadeus in a list, it’s the old and stolen list.)
Technology changes. For years people had to be content with my list or the audio introductions compiled by Kaprisky. Now there’s YouTube and some of the Moviedrome introductions have made it to that omnipotent site. I spent most of my afternoon to find the links to the YouTube introduction and now my guide is highly up to date. At the same time I also managed to find other Alex Cox introductions, which are posted beneath my Moviedrome list. So if you’d like to spend a couple of hours in movie nostalgia, have a look at my Moviedrome page.
For now, as an appetiser, Alex Cox introduces Face To Face:
To say Repo Chick was critically loved would be somewhat of an exaggeration. In fact, between the actual first screening (somewhere in 2009) and its proper release (on DVD in 2011), not many films were given such a bad press as this film. Surely all those critics couldn’t be wrong… Or could they…?
