While best known for his cult classics Repo Man and Sid & Nancy, due to some ostracization from Hollywood, director Alex Cox found himself south of the border in the early 1990s. The first film in he made in Mexico, Highway Patrolman, has now received a beautiful new 4K restoration courtesy of Kino Lorber.
Set to open at Film Forum at the end of the month, we’re pleased to exclusively debut not only a new trailer, but the first trailer as the film never received one upon its initial release in 1991. The film tracks the journey of Pedro (Roberto Sosa), our titular character who finds himself up against a burgeoning drug war in Mexico as the law of the land gets blurred.
Regarding the restoration, Alex Cox said, “Highway Patrolman is the first film I directed shot (almost) entirely in long takes…what the Mexicans call “plano secuencia”. It’s...
Set to open at Film Forum at the end of the month, we’re pleased to exclusively debut not only a new trailer, but the first trailer as the film never received one upon its initial release in 1991. The film tracks the journey of Pedro (Roberto Sosa), our titular character who finds himself up against a burgeoning drug war in Mexico as the law of the land gets blurred.
Regarding the restoration, Alex Cox said, “Highway Patrolman is the first film I directed shot (almost) entirely in long takes…what the Mexicans call “plano secuencia”. It’s...
- 11/6/2018
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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