Movie Mindset Bonus: Interview with Repo Man Director Alex Cox

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🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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As 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 Find the rest of this season of Movie Mindset, including our episode on Repo Man, on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/collection/510340?view=expanded

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0:05.0	Let's go to the lobby.
0:07.0	Let's go to the lobby.
0:10.0	That's all go to the lobby to get ourselves a chance.
0:15.0	A little I'll be to get ourselves a cheese.
0:16.0	A delicious thing to meat.
0:19.0	A bottle of your candy beans.
0:21.0	Sparkling drinks are just standing,
0:25.0	the chocolate eyes and a can-be.
0:28.0	So let's all know how I need to get ourselves a treat.
0:33.0	to the lobby to get ourselves a treat.
0:40.0	Welcome back, movie fans. It's been our distinct pleasure on this season of
0:45.4	Movie Mindstead to take some time to talk to the people who really matter, the
0:49.4	people who make movies. And I'm just going to jump right into it because we are thrilled today to be able to talk to a filmmaker whose work I have adored four years.
0:58.0	Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to our program, the director of repo man, Alex Cox.
1:02.8	Alex, thank you so much for being here.
1:04.6	Thank you very much for having me.
1:06.0	And I'm sorry that it was all kind of a bit alarming
1:09.0	a few minutes ago, but I'm a member of a volunteer fire department in rural Oregon and we're about half an
1:17.2	half from town and so if we get an emergency and it's not you know broken back or something like and it's not, you know, broken back or something like that.
1:24.7	It's quicker to take the customer to the emergency room
1:29.3	than to wait for the ambulance to arrive.
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