Alex Cox

Alex Cox is, to me, the great cult maverick of British cinema. Repo Man is one of my favourite oddball films of the 80s, a punk sci-fi satire that shouldn't work but absolutely does, and Sid and Nancy remains a raw, unflinching portrait of the Sex Pistols' doomed romance. What I admire about the Liverpool-born director is his uncompromising stubbornness, he made films exactly his way, which cost him studio careers but earned him devoted fans. His Walker is gleefully anachronistic and political. He's an Oxford-educated outsider who chose the margins, and honestly the margins are where the most interesting cinema lives.

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Name (English)

Alex Cox

Name (Japanese)

アレックス・コックス

Reading

あれっくす・こっくす

Born

December 15, 1954 (age 71)

Origin

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Occupation

film director / screenwriter / film producer / film actor / television director

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Horse

University

Worcester College

• Official sitehttps://alexcoxfilms.wordpress.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Cox
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q778865

Tags

• film director
• screenwriter
• film producer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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