Dead Souls

Con man twilight western from Alex Cox. Disjointed and misses as much as it hits, but for much of its time, it's enjoyably messy with some good lethargic energy. To some extent, it is about Cox getting away with it. Partially shot in Almeria, something that is probably as…

Filipe Furtado

“Well, I think it’s impossible in our culture to exist outside of capitalism, isn’t it? I mean, there aren’t any benign communists who are going to come along and give me a load of money. That did happen one time to Kurosawa, but when the Russians showed up after he’d…

Brandon Streussnig

This was a fun night out at the movies, with Alex Cox, and select cast and crew at a pre-release SF Film Festival showing of a Spaghetti Western influenced satire that has been adapted from a Gogol story. The English Cox himself is surprisingly good in the lead role, a…

NickDedina

I backed this on Kickstarter and had the opportunity to see it before the release. It's fun to see Alex Cox acting in this and injecting a kind of surprising weirdness that escalates well. A musical number, stop motion, anachronistic madness. I found it very fun. I've…

Michael J. Epstein

I was worried I might not like this movie since I'm usually put off by Westerns but Alex Cox's sense of humor won me over! And it was such an honor to meet the man himself!  Some notes I joted down from the Q&A: -Cox is drawn to Westerns because of the deserts  -He thought…

Saffron

I hate to admit that I haven't kept up with Alex Cox much these days, I don't think I'm even aware of what he's done beyond the 1980s after a powerful quartet that all became favourites: Repo Man, Sid and Nancy, Straight To Hell and Walker. Dead Souls reminds me the most of…

Fraser Robinson

Asked Alex Cox if he liked western novels at the screening and he said not really but he does like Blood Meridian.  He told a story about how he pitched his take to Michael Mann when Mann had the rights to Blood Meridian. Michael Mann responded with “That’s a film not a…

ptameeting

Got to see this with a Q&A with Alex Cox (who signed my & my partners copies of Repo Chick & Walker!) and it was a blast!! He's such a great spirits dude in person, very passionate about film, and spoke to how the genus of this adaptation was about the (more European & UK…

Jae Bearhat

Alex Cox's possible swan song (though he still hopes to get Repo Man 2 off the ground, as was repeatedly stressed in the Q&A by his collaborator Geoff Marslett) is a wry deadpan revisionist western, almost entirely carried by a genuinely great performance by Cox himself,…

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