Tonight I'm hosting three movies by director Alex Cox on my Discord server. Normally it'd be called #Scarefest, but I think we'll pivot to calling it #Schlockfest tonight, (although the only really schlocky one of the three is REPO MAN).
All times are US CST:
-REPO MAN (1984) 8:00
-SID AND NANCY (1986) ~9:30
-WALKER (1987) ~11:30
You probably already know REPO MAN (1984). “Repo Man is always intense.” Ostensibly a madcap sci-fi adventure starring Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton, this is one of the punkest movies ever made, with a soundtrack featuring Iggy Pop, Black Flag, Suicidal Tendencies, The Plugz, and The Circle Jerks, who also have a hilarious cameo (Zander Schloss also joined the band after appearing in this film with them).
#CoSoMovies #CoSoFilm #CoSoPunk
Trailer: https://youtu.be/DLGrXGEMOSo
SID AND NANCY (1986) is writer-director Alex Cox’s defining film as an artist, and Gary Oldman’s performance here garnered him much praise, essentially putting him “on the map” in Hollywood. While both REPO MAN and SID AND NANCY exemplify the “punk ethos,” they do it in almost diametrically opposite ways. The first is a playfully far-out fiction that beats with the heart of the 80’s US West Coast scene, the second a carefully-observed document of one of the most damaged relationships in UK punk.
Ran out of characters in my last post; here’s a link to the trailer for SID AND NANCY: https://youtu.be/hZp3meyWVm0