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film The filmmaker too tough to die
Director Alex Cox returns to Boulder with his latest film ‘Tombstone-Rashomon’ by Michael J. Casey
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ew filmmakers are as devoted to cinema as Alex Cox. Since his debut in 1984, Cox has made movies for the studios, for BBC’s Channel 4, for Roger Corman, for his students and for himself. He’s penned three books on movies, taught screenwriting at the University of Colorado Boulder and back in 2015, he retired to the woods of Oregon to write and live. But the woods didn’t hold him long and last year he ventured to the Arizona desert to film his latest movie, Tombstone-Rashomon, a passion project that dates back to his days as a high schooler. Even passing fans will recognize Tombstone as home to one of the most famous shootouts in the American Jason Graham West: the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. The activity took as Virgil Earp talks with all of 30 seconds and when all was said and done, Tom Director Alex and Frank McLaury and Bill Clanton lay dead in the Cox. dust while Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers —Virgil, Morgan and Wyatt — all stood victorious. According to the history books, it’s the moment when the law pushed back against the lawlessness of the frontier and what transpired on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 1881 has become the stuff of legend. But legends have a way of being manipulated. Were the Earps, and temporary policeman Holliday, justified in their actions? Did the Clanton and the McLaury brothers have it coming to them? Were they set up? “When I was a teenager ... I read Stuart N. Lake’s Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshall,“ Cox tells Boulder Weekly. “It’s such a romantic story. It’s so heroic and so prejudice in favor of the Earps and Holliday — I thought, ‘What a great story! I’d like to make this as a film.’” Nearly five decades later, Cox’s teenage fantasies have come to fruition, but not without a little inspiration from his students. During Cox’s tenure at CU, he crowdfunded a feature film adaptation of Harry Harrison’s Bill, the Galactic Hero and used his students to bring it to the screen. Bill was funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign, one that gave Cox hope that there might be a new way to make movies. But as Cox quickly learned, the science fiction of Bill proved an easier sell than the Western style of TombstoneRashomon. “When I saw how little money we raised, [I thought] ‘We are so screwed, man!’ Cox says with a hearty laugh. “We were so screwed because we had no money at all.” Cox and company adjusted their already micro budget to $50,000 but still only managed to raise $31,642 with 297 backers on Indiegogo. Not nearly enough to tell their Tombstone story with the ambition Cox had in mind. Thankfully, friends in high places came to the rescue. “We were really lucky because a video streaming company, Fandor, came in and added to the budget,” Cox explains. “Then the producers of Snowden and the Iggy Pop documentary, Gimme Danger, also came in and matched what we raised from Indiegogo and Fandor. So, it was still minimal but at least we could afford to feed people and have horses.” Boulder Weekly