X films : true confessions of a radical filmmaker / Alex Cox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cox, Alex, 1954- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cox, Alex, 1954-.

Cox, Alex.

Motion picture producers and directors--Great Britain--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Biography.

Physical Description:

314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn : Soft Skull Press ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2008]

Summary:

"Alex Cox is the genuine article: a radical independent filmmaker who is also a good writer, an insightful commentator on contemporary cinema, and an expert critic of the power of Hollywood. Enfant terrible he may be, but Alex Cox is a pioneer and promoter of new forms of filmmaking for the cultural revolutionaries of the twenty-first century." "X Films has as its center the filmmaking autobiography of a fine director - the journey through all his major films and how they were made. Cox takes us to varied locations, including the U.S., Mexico, and Nicaragua, where he made Walker with the cooperation of the Sandinista government. He is full of fresh ideas and rare insights into many films of different genres and the people he has worked with, including such greats as Dennis Potter and Harry Dean Stanton."--Jacket.

Contents:

Intro

Edge city

Repo man

Love kills / Sid & Nancy

Straight to hell

Walker

El patrullero

Death and the compass

Three businessmen

Revengers tragedy

Searchers 2.0

Postscript.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-304) and index.

"Published by arrangement with I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., London"--Title page verso.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781593761936

1593761937

OCLC:

181517145

Publisher Number:

99995871446