Now in its sophomore year, the Crested Butte Film Festival plans to elude any sort of slump, starting with tapping moviemaker Alex Cox as its inaugural guest programmer.
“We’re very lucky to have him here,” said Michael Brody, who, along with wife Jennifer, founded and directs the Western Slope festival. “He wanted to show ‘Walker,’ ” Brody said, adding, “it’s wild, chaotic.”
Last year, the director of “Repo Man” and “Sid & Nancy” joined the University of Colorado at Boulder faculty as an assistant professor.
“Walker,” his 1987 acid Western, stars Ed Harris as the historical figure William Walker, an American adventurer who became president of Nicaragua in 1857, was removed in 1859 and met a bad end in Honduras in 1860. Cox breaks conventional period storytelling. (There’s a helicopter escape!) Reviewing the film in The New York Times, Vincent Canby wrote, “Cox and the writer Rudy Wurlitzer have made ‘Walker’ a hip, cool, political satire that’s almost as lunatic as the title character.”
Wild and chaotic, indeed
Other highlights: Boulder-produced doc and Sundance 2012 victor “Chasing Ice,” by Jeff Orlowski. The wondrous short “One finger, two dots then me,” featuring poet Derrick C. Brown. “Under African Skies,” about Paul Simon’s return to South Africa, the site of his legendary album “Graceland.”
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