X Films True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker

"Alex Cox is the genuine article: a radical independent filmmaker who is also a good writer, an insightful commentator on contemporary cinema, and an expert critic of the power of Hollywood. Enfant terrible he may be, but Alex Cox is a pioneer and promoter of new forms of filmmaking for the cultural revolutionaries of the twenty-first century." "X Films has as its center the filmmaking autobiography of a fine director - the journey through all his major films and how they were made. Cox takes us to varied locations, including the U.S., Mexico, and Nicaragua, where he made Walker with the cooperation of the Sandinista government. He is full of fresh ideas and rare insights into many films of different genres and the people he has worked with, including such greats as Dennis Potter and Harry Dean Stanton."--BOOK JACKET.

Alex Cox is a writer, film director, actor and producer. He has directed a dozen features, and written about movies for The Guardian, Film Comment, Kinema Jumpo, and The New York Times. Among his films are Repo Man, Walker, Highway Patrolman, and Revengers Tragedy. He is currently working on a documentary, Scene Missing, and a book about the parallel lives of President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald -- The President and the Provocateur.