BFI
RELEASE FOUR COX DVDS
The British
Film Institute has released two new boxed sets
of four films, HIGHWAY PATROLMAN, STRAIGHT TO
HELL, THREE BUSINESSMEN, and DEATH & THE
COMPASS. All films are with audio commentaries,
and additional elements.
The first set
consists of STRAIGHT TO HELL and DEATH & THE
COMPASS, with the same elements as the Anchor
Bay release in the US. This is the livelier and
more colourful of the two packages.
The second is
the more intellectual package - consisting of
two long-take features, EL PATRULLERO and 3 BUSINESSMEN.
HIGHWAY PATROLMAN
is accompanied by a new documentary, PATRULLEROS
Y PATRULLERAS, about the actors and crew. 3 BUSINESSMEN
has a new documentary, featuring me, Miguel Sandoval,
Bob Wisdom and others, about long takes and the
process of watching the picure, called HOW TO
WATCH THIS FILM. If you can only afford one,
this is the box to get your loved one for Xmas.
The BFI has done
a really nice job of both, and I'm very grateful
to them.
UNIVERSAL
TO RE-RE-RELEASE REPOMAN
September 2005
After releasing a 'vanilla' version of the REPO MAN
DVD last year, Universal are putting together an Improved
DVD, with new elements, for release early next year
- motivated, I think, by the well-attended screening
of the new 35mm print, at the Egyptian, in Hollywood,
last August.
In addition
to the existing audio commentary which Sy Richardson,
Michael Nesmith, Vicky Thomas, Dick Rude, Del
Zamora, Zander Schloss and I did for the Anchor
Bay DVD, the re-reissued DVD will include three
new documentaries about aspects of REPO MAN,
directed by Jonathan Wacks, Peter McCarthy,
and me.
Due to Universal's policy, none of us receive directing credits. Let's see if you can guess who directed which!
Wacks and McCarthy
were the producers of REPO MAN, of course,
and later directed features of their own. It's
the first time we've worked together since,
so the new DVD elements will be a potentially
tearful trip down memory lane.
Also involved
are Harry Dean Stanton, Zander,
the Nez, and Sam Cohen, inventor of the Neutron Bomb.
Release date
for the new REPO MAN DVD is, tentatively, January
2006.
COX
TO DIRECT 2006 ELECTION BROADCAST FOR GREENS
Alex Cox has been asked to direct the 2006 Green Party Election Broadcast for local government elections in England in April 2006. The 2005 Green
Party election broadcasts for Scotland, England
and Wales were directed by Cox and produced
by Kim Ryan of Cohiba productions, in Liverpool.
There were
five different 4 minute, 40 second broadcasts
- one for the UK, one for Scotland, one for
England, and two, in different languages, for
Wales. All were shot and edited by Jah Jussah,
at Toxteth TV.
The 2005 broadcast featured the actor Carla Henry, and music by Franz Ferdinand. The 2006 broadcast will be quite different, Cox promises.
(When the 2005 election
broadcast went out, Channel 4 screened it with
the subtitles of a rival party, the right-wing
UKIP.)
The Green Party
of England and Wales can be found here,
and the Scottish Greens can be found here.
alexcox.com
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