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
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
I don’t want to say too much about tonight’s third feature, WALKER (1987) because it’s Cox’s overlooked (third) masterpiece, and surprising in the best possible way for those who haven’t heard of it. Starring Ed Harris in perhaps his most intense role ever, and written by Randy Wurlitzer (Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid) it was directed by Cox to be a pitch-dark social commentary on imperialism and it effectively ended his Hollywood career.
#CoSoFilm #CoSoMovies
Trailer: https://youtu.be/Nn45GsPoZrc
Here are some supplemental materials from the Criterion releases of these films. #Scarefest #Schlockfest #CoSoMovies #CoSoFilm #WatchParty #CoSoArt
Repo Man Artwork
Sid and Nancy Essay: The Horrible Purity of Immortality by Jon Savage
Walker: Excerpts from "On William Walker" and photos
Starting in less than two hours, three films by Alex Cox!
One last movie tonight... WALKER in about 5 minutes.
@Apocryphiliac Adore both Repo Man and Sid and Nancy ❤️
@Skwerlie1 Come watch with us tonight if you’d like!
@Apocryphiliac damn. Won’t be able to join. It won’t let me join muted and is demanding my phone number so I can “speak” 🙄😒
@h2oaddicted Try again, I adjusted some security settings earlier to try to make sure to keep spambots out, but I adjusted them again. Let me know if it’ll work for you now. 👍
@Apocryphiliac Sid & Nancy had a profound effect on me when I watched it in the early 2000's. Back then I drank and would occasionally do some recreational drugs. Watching that movie made me stop
@PaulContento I feel you. Although some of the key people it portrays point out its shortcomings, as a former addict, it speaks to me as an authentic document of the lifestyle, and the warning is certainly clear and poignant.
@Apocryphiliac it's definitely white washed slightly but as is serves as an effective cautionary tale.
@PaulContento speaking of which, I know this isn’t what you meant by whitewashed, but this time when I watched it, I noticed that Polystyrene was portrayed as a white woman. 😳
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