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Movie Mindset Bonus: Interview with Repo Man Director Alex Cox

🕑 Added 2024-07-03 21:09:26 +0000 UTC

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original gay pussy eatah

I’m watching The Player (Robert Altman) and thinking “do we all owe Vincent D’Onofrio an apology?”

inspectah mossadegh

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

John Mitchell

Two Words: John (muthafukkin) Hughes!!! https://web.archive.org/web/20180620205238/https://prettyinpodcast.com/2016/05/31/nljoy/

PIPPA TANDY

Can we have a Shelley Duvall Movie Mindset please?

Colin C.

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.

hamburglar

Big props, hope you pull more interviews like this

The Children of Jack Acid

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!

Tim U.

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 > *

Eon Gattignolo

masters who are generous with their expertise and encouraging mastery in others are true saints and servants of humanity

Eon Gattignolo

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.

dablatney

Very nice to have my Warren Oates opinion validated, and by such a high authority!

Big-Stink

this was dope

philfinn

I'm old enough to remember Moviedrome. Would love a Lindsay Anderson double on MM one day, If/O Lucky Man.

MKatieUltra

He's so warm and funny, just delightful

DNygk

Great interview!!!

Bermuda Schwartz

What a great interview, thanks guys!

Marcus Wrightus

Otto's tighty whities in Repo Man were part of my sexual awakening

Savannakhet

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.

bruce

Possible coolest guy ever??

Jeremy Farmer

Alex was my screenwriting professor in college, he fuckin rules! Coolest dude, so open and free with his knowledge and time.

triplehashbrown

What a damn treat

Boots Riley

Was looking for that

Patrick Schneider

Think Cox means the Georgian film Repentance (87) when he is talking about the movie "about Stalin," not "Remembrance"

will michel

this was awesome, thank you movie mindset

DP

Wow Alex Cox rules that was fantastic

J.W.

So cool. Cox rules.

Gabe

This guy rocks

Karl Hungus

Great interview!

Chris T

Dead Souls is amazing!

Gabe

I feel like that was Chris, but I want to be wrong...

Chapo Trap House

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.

Chris T

CHRIS: CRITERION HAS A VERY POPULAR RELEASE OF WALKER

Neil Evans

Hesse says there’s a through line but fumbled it, the through line is sarcasm

Neil Evans

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

Thom

god damn that ruled

Jack Rockwood

Let’s go!

The Fine Art Revolution

great interview!

Chapo Trap House

I'd really call WALKER a must-see for Chapo fans. If you listen to this show you would almost certainly enjoy that movie.

Simon

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.

Isaac Suárez

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.