255: Alex Cox!
Craig & Friends
Craig And Friends
4.9 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2024
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Legendary filmmaker Alex Cox (Repo Man, Straight To Hell, Walker, Tombstone Rashomon etc) has a new film in the works, a film you can help make a reality by participating via Kickstarter. Click the link, snatch up the fabulous rewards available and thank Alex for decades of wonderful films.Alex & I discuss his collaborations with Joe Strummer, REPO MAN, studio politics, STRAIGHT TO HELL, Sam Peckinpah, Chateau Marmont, William Friedkin’s SORCERER, miserable encounters with Hunter S. Thompson and much much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Make Believe is not pretend we might be here, but you're on the man. |
| 0:07.0 | It never starts, it never ends. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to Craig and Friends. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to Craig and Friends. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to Craig and Friends. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to Craig and Friends. |
| 0:22.0 | Hey there, sports fans. |
| 0:25.0 | On this episode I had the pleasure, privilege, and delight to talk to one of my favorite filmmakers, |
| 0:30.0 | Alex Cox, the man behind Repo Man, Walker, Straight to Hell, Sit and Nancy, Highway Patrolman, |
| 0:36.2 | three businessmen, the list goes on far too long for me even to continue. |
| 0:40.1 | However, one film I must mention is his last movie. |
| 0:44.0 | There is a Kickstarter, the link is in the episode description, |
| 0:47.0 | where you can be a part of his last movie. |
| 0:50.0 | At 70, he wants to sail off into the sunset in a filmmaking sense in a blaze of glory. |
| 0:55.9 | I guess you wouldn't want that if you're sailing. |
| 0:57.9 | Probably. Anyway, it doesn't matter. I guess it's like a Viking funeral. |
| 1:01.1 | So he wants to do it right and you want to do it right by going to the kickstarter and contributing |
| 1:06.5 | The reward tears go all the way from $11 to a lot more than $11 but the rewards are incredible especially if you're already a fan of his which I know you are because you love repo man how can you not |
| 1:18.9 | If you haven't seen it |
| 1:20.5 | What are you doing here? I mean serious. I don't mean to be rude but anyway I don't |
| 1:24.4 | want to get personal about this. You love to support independent creators right? |
| 1:27.3 | So in addition to supporting Alex to make sure his film gets made and made well |
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