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Last week's Movie Quiz winners

"Find one in every car." "Let's go get sushi and not pay." "I gotta get my wife's car out of this bad area." "They don't pay bills in Russia, it's all free." "“I was killing people while you were still swimming around in your father's balls! You little scumbag!” And many other well-known favorite quotes were mentioned by the people identifying last week's quiz movie in question, Alex Cox's splendid 1984 a-punk-alyptic Repo Man.

It was the first feature by British writer-director Cox, and he packed the film with funny dialogue, great (if unknown) character actors (like Sy Richardson, above, with the movie's star, Emilio Estevez), and a weirdness that hadn't been seen in mainstream movies at the time. Not so hard to do, of course, when the plot involves a radioactive Chevy Malibu and Harry Dean Stanton as a repo man named Bud. Stanton is even better than he usually is, and all of his scenes-- lecturing about tense situations and other repo man info, spitting out dialogue like "Goddamn-dipshit-Rodriguez-gypsy-dildo-punks!"-- are made of comedy gold.

(A good word should be said for Tracey Walter as the driving-phobic mechanic Miller, and the film's executive producer, none other than Monkee Mike "Wool-Hat" Nesmith!)

Quiz champeen Wayne Palmer put his finger on perhaps the movie's greatest mystery-- what happened to its director? "Though I still watch everything that Alex Cox puts out, after this and Sid and Nancy he really dropped into indy obscurity." Agreed, sad to say, and a shame, because some of his later films-- especially his Mexican film Highway Patrolman and the spaghetti Western spoof Straight to Hell (starring Richardson, Joe Strummer and Courtney Love)-- have been interesting, if not the home runs of the first two films.

A nice big turnout this time, so congratulations and a big box of the generic food product of your choice to the following winners: Wayne Palmer, Song-Un Lee, Travis Neal, Corey Anderson, Chris Hessler, Vince Tuss, Dean E. Carlson, Dack Anderson, Michael Mattson, Mark Torma, Nick Rupar, Mark Gisleson, Bill Hearne, Gene, Thomas Miller, Tim McDonough, Joe Rosenberg, Jim Moomey, Isaac Kaufman, Doug Smith, Michael Schurter, Michael Swanlund, E. Yarber, Dennis Lynch, Kevin Musolino, Nancy Louise Rutherford, Sarah Bergstrom, John Slade, Stacy Sarette, and Bob Redwing.

Posted by Steve Monaco at September 16, 2007 11:52 PM

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