š Written by iconic filmmaker Alex Cox
š Recently in news with his
autobiographical book X-films: True
Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker
š Touring season of Spaghetti Westerns
in 2010, curated by Alex Cox
š All season’s films discussed in book
š Extensive national press coverage
and online promotion
10,000 WAYS TO DIE
A DIRECTOR’S TAKE ON THE SPAGHETTI WESTERN
ALEX COX
‘40 years ago as a graduate student I wrote a I’m thinking about what the filmmakers intended,
book about Spaghetti Westerns, called 10,000 how they did that shot, how the director felt
Ways to Die. It’s an embarrassing tome when I when his film was recut by the studio, and he
look at it now: full of half-assed semiotics and was creatively and financially screwed. 10,000
other attenuated academic nonsense. In the Ways to Die is an entirely new book about an
intervening period I have had the interesting under-studied subject, the Spaghetti Western,
experience of being a film director. So now, from a director’s POV. Not only have these films
when I watch these films, I’m looking at them stood the test of time; some of them are very
from a different perspective. A professional high art’. – Alex Cox
perspective, maybe...
Independent British filmmaker Alex Cox is £16.99
responsible for directing a host of acclaimed films
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from Sleep Is for Sissies, Repo Man, Sid & Nancy,
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Straight to Hell, Walker and Highway Patrolman
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to Death and the Compass, Revengers Tragedy,
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Searchers 2.0 and Repo Chick. From 1987 to
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1994, he presented the acclaimed BBC TV series
‘Moviedrome’, bringing unknown or forgotten
ISBN: 978-1-84243-304-1
films to new audiences. He’s also the author of
X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker, and has written
on the subject of film for publications including Sight & Sound, The
Guardian, The Independent and Film Comment.
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