Harry Dean Stanton, Character Actor Extraordinaire, Has Died At 91
Sad news kicked off the weekend with word of Harry Dean Stanton dead coming from the trades after the actor passed away from natural causes in his LA home.
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Mondo's Criterion Posters For 'Repo Man' Available Tuesday
Criteron fans who saw the artwork for this week's release of Alex Cox's cult film Repo Man and thought, "That looks familiar" might have been 100% right. The work, commissioned by Criterion, was done by two of Mondo's familiar and talented artists: Jay Shaw and Tyler Stout. You can get the artwork on the Criterion release, out…
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Cool Stuff: Dennis Hopper And Harry Dean Stanton T-Shirts By Freshjive
Our Cali pals at Freshjive sent over two shirts to /Film from their 2010 Spring Collection featuring stark, eye piercing portraits of Harry Dean Stanton and Dennis Hopper. Spring is in the air and we look forward to rocking the proverbial shit out of these $26 tees watching random airings of Meatballs---which sure, starred neither actor---with take-out margaritas and…
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Early Reviews Of Alex Cox's Repo Man Quasi-Sequel Repo Chick (An Anti-Golf Farce?)
Last night at the Venice Film Festival, the spiritual sequel to writer/director Alex Cox's punk rock, sci-fi cult classic Repo Man, Repo Chick, premiered. Co-produced by David Lynch, the film has loomed with some hesitation in the minds of fans as an oddity, because it was shot almost entirely on green screen using RED cameras and…
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Cool Stuff: Alex Cox's Book X Films
If you are a young person who aspires to fire into the world of independent filmmaking, it’s fair to say that Alex Cox’s X Films is requisite reading alongside Robert Rodriguez’s Rebel Without a Crew. While Cox offers no tales herein comparable to selling blood and submitting to medical experiments for quick cash, his book…
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Repo Man Sequel Starts Filming Next Month
Alex Cox's Repo Man sequel Repo Chick is finally going into production next month (January 2009). Production Weekly reports that David Lynch is producing the project. The original 1984 film told the story of Otto, a newly hired repossession man who goes in search for a mysterious Malibu carrying a high value package which was…
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The First Slashfilm Muxtape!
With summer approaching and its plethora of open window/outdoor Net grazing, parties and, of course, blockbuster movies, we've decided to create a glorious soundtrack-themed Muxtape for our readership. All of the awesome songs streamed on the first Slashfilm Muxtape come from films we dig sans a certain mission statement from Patton Oswalt. I've arranged the…
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