Tombstone Rashomon
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Alex Cox
Alex Cox is a British-American film director, screenwriter and actor. Cox saw widespread success in the hollywood-counterculture movement of the 1980's with his cult films Repo Man and Sid and Nancy. Following the highly controversial release of his ambitious and surreal bio-pic Walker in 1986, Alex has stoically pursued a career in independent cinema. His most recent film, funded on Kickstarter and made while teaching at the University of Colorado, was an entirely student-made adaptation of Harry Harrison's sci-fi novel Bill the Galactic Hero. Now, Tombstone Rashomon is his homage to Akira Kurosawa steeped in the mythology of the old-west. What really happened at The Gunfight at the OK Corral?
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Filmography
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Tombstone Rashomon
The Gunfight at the OK Corral only happened once, but has been tirelessly recreated in films, television shows and western towns ever since. No one has a monopoly on truth, and in TOMBSTONE RASHOMON, the truth is shared by six conflicting, yet historical perspectives. In doing...Watch Movie
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Hafford's Saloon
This is a short video I made while doing research for my new feature, TOMBSTONE RASHOMON. It was shot on the streets of Tombstone and in a Western movie set, Old Tucson. It details, in real time, how long it took the Earp Brothers and Doc Holliday to walk from their saloon...Watch Movie
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Scene Missing
Some years ago I was involved in a fruitless attempt to persuade Universal to bring WALKER out on Blu-Ray and DVD. They did neither, though they did turn the DVD rights over to Criterion, eventually... In the course of this, I suggested to Dennis Hopper that he and I make "making of"...Watch Movie
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Searchers 2.0
As child actors, Mel and Fred were beaten and whipped by an imperious screenwriter, Fritz Frobisher. Now the elderly Fritz is to appear at a t-shirt signing ceremony in Monument Valley, Arizona, where his great films were made. Still living in Los Angeles and seeking works as actors, Mel and Fred...Watch Movie
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3 Businessmen: A User's Guide
In the 1990s all the feature films I made were shot in a style the Mexicans call "plano secuencia" (a single master for every scene). I was inspired in this by my friend the director Arturo Ripstein. It was a response to editing strategies which had become increasingly...Watch Movie
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3 Businessmen
Two businessmen, Benny and Frank, venture out into the streets of Liverpool, a city neither of them knows, in search of dinner. They wander for miles, unable to find a meal, unaware that the town they began their journey in has morphed: first into Rotterdam, then into Tokyo and Hong Kong....Watch Movie
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Death and the Compass
A complex Mexican murder mystery based on the short story "La muerte y la brujula" by Jorge Luis Borges. DEATH AND THE COMPASS stars Peter Boyle, Miguel Sandoval and Christopher Eccleston, made by the same crew and much of the same cast as HIGHWAY PATROLMAN (shot in Mexico the...Watch Movie
Genres
- Action/Adventure
- Action/Adventure / Manhunt
- Adaptation / Cinematic
- Adaptation / Literary / Prose
- Comedy / Anarchic Comedy
- Comedy / Black Comedy
- Crime
- Crime / Crime-fighter / Police
- Crime / Criminal / Gangster
- Cult / Psychotronic
- Documentary / Art / Visual Arts / Motion Pictures
- Documentary / Crime
- Documentary / History
- Drama / Costume Drama
- Drama / Dysfunctional Family
- Drama / Expedition
- Drama / Melodrama
- Drama / Realism / Pseudodocumentary
- Independent / Documentary
- Independent / Narrative
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / Mexican
- International / European / United Kingdom / British
- Short / Documentary
- Short / Narrative
- Suspense / Psychological
- Western
Recent Reviews
Searchers 2.0
ohh this is cool
Tombstone Rashomon
Loved it!
Tombstone Rashomon
This was like watching really bad local theater. I lasted about 10 minutes
3 Businessmen
Alex Cox is the poet laureate of DIY cinema. He makes films with loose change found down the back of couch cushions, screens them in papier-mâché theaters and boarded up...