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Written by iconic filmmaker Alex Cox
Recently in news with his
autobiographical book X-films: True
Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker
Publication to coincide with season of
Spaghetti Westerns at BFI Southbank,
to be curated by Alex Cox
All season’s films discussed in book
Author tour and extensive national
press coverage
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 book about I’m thinking about what the filmmakers intended,
Spaghetti Westerns, called 10,000 Ways to Die. It’s an how they did that shot, how the director felt when his
embarrassing tome when I look at it now: full of half-assed film was recut by the studio, and he was creatively
semiotics and other attenuated academic nonsense. and financially screwed. 10,000 Ways to Die is an
In the intervening period I have had the interesting entirely new book about an under-studied subject, the
experience of being a film director. So now, when I Spaghetti Western, from a director’s POV. Not only
watch these films, I’m looking at them from a different have these films stood the test of time; some of them
perspective. A professional perspective, maybe... are very high art’. – Alex Cox
Alex Cox - Maverick British filmmaker responsible
for directing a host of acclaimed films from Sleep Is £16.99 PAPERBACK WITH FLAPS
for Sissies, Repo Man, Sid & Nancy, Straight to Hell, AVAILABLE MAY 2009
Walker and Highway Patrolman to Death and the
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Compass, Revenger’s Tragedy and The Searchers
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2.0. From 1987 to 1994, he presented the acclaimed
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BBC TV series ‘Moviedrome’, bringing unknown
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or forgotten 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 and Sound,
The Guardian, The Independent and Film Comment.
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