https://staging2.theplaylist.net/watch-alex-coxs-1999-documentary-kurosawa-the-last-emperor-with-francis-ford-coppola-paul-verhoeven-more-20130318/ Fri, 13 May 2016 10:25:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/watch-alex-coxs-1999-documentary-kurosawa-the-last-emperor-with-francis-ford-coppola-paul-verhoeven-more-20130318/#comment-59599 Fri, 13 May 2016 10:25:58 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/watch-alex-coxs-1999-documentary-kurosawa-the-last-emperor-with-francis-ford-coppola-paul-verhoeven-more-100626/#comment-59599 This was a cool doc and Alex Cox is one of the most underrated directors around. People love to talk about directors "taking chances" by doing some literary adaptation that already has a big audience, but this guy genuinely basically gave a big FU to America's foreign policy … and essentially kissed his career good-bye. Gilliam gets, like, a billion chances, but Cox was given the cold shoulder by critics more interested in defending America's involvement in South America than engaging – in any kind of intelligent way – with what Cox was trying to say in the late '80s.

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