Walker and Repo Man

[Keith Brecher]

>Apropos the discussion of Alex Cox's _Walker_ (which I rather enjoyed,
>but then didn't know the Costa Rican version of the story - thanks,
>David Casseres, for the info): I seem to have missed how we got onto
>this film, though I guess the Cuba discussion is an important part of
>it, but P-Listers probably have also seen Cox's earlier and IMHO far
>better film, _Repo Man_. Probably a film closer to the spirit of
>Philip K Dick than any of the mainstream Hollywood film versions of PKD's
>work, and it doesn't claim to be based on a Dick title. Also a
>deliciously Pynchonesque film, with rampant paranoia and bizarre
>conspiracies and oddball characters and great car chases and just
>about everything else...
>
>
>Craig Clark
>
>"Living inside the system is like driving across
> the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
> on suicide."
>   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"

Craig--
This may be a link probably not worthy of CL49 regarding WALKER. This past
weekend, in a Long Island bookstore, I found a copy of WALKER which I
bought because it was written by "Rudy Wurlitzer" who I presumed was the
same person as Rudolph Wurlitzer who wrote the weird novel NOG which has a
nice TRP blurb and a cool psychedelic cover. I've never seen the film, but
I'm about to start ferreting around videostores for it. I'm with you on
REPO MAN--great film, great music, worthy of PKD and TRP.

Keith