Repo Man, DVD review - Telegraph 18, Eureka Masters of Cinema, Blu-ray, £20.42 The tufty, toothy, stringy, highly distinctive-looking Alex (Sid and Nancy, Straight to Hell) Cox is the film buff's film director. Before Tarantino (who steals from him) was heard of, he was there for us in the late 1980s introducing a motley but often inspired collection of late-night movies on BBC2 under the banner of Moviedrome. Cox's astonishing, very funny début (as writer-director) was the punk independent classic Repo Man of 1984, now given a glorious new lease of life by Masters of Cinema - with many welcome special features, including a charmingly idiosyncratic introduction from this son of Liverpool, now resident in the US. The film - which has attitude in spades, and knows exactly what it's doing, is almost impossible to describe. It's an absurdist, foul-mouthed, savagely satirical black comedy, a grungy but elegant, utterly clued-up assault on Ronald Reagan's America - wonderfully acted by a dream-team of indie actors, surrounding a droll, alienated young L.A. punk called Otto (Emilio Estevez). Cox knows his exploitation cinema, and pays his dues with a surreal aliens-and-CIA running subplot, alongside another with a half-baked Mohican-and-leathers stick-up gang whose crimes are hilariously incompetent (e.g, mid-robbery, "You say our names, we're going to have to kill all these people, Archie!" or "Let's go do some crimes" - "Yeah. Let's go get sushi and not pay!"). But what we most remember is the central figure, the ageing, cynical "repo man" Bud (Harry Dean Stanton) who becomes Otto's mentor, puts him in a suit, and introduces him to the "Repo Code" of his crew of legally sanctioned car thieves: it's a great performance - just before Stanton made Paris, Texas with Wim Wenders (and with Repo Man's magnificent cinematographer, Robby Müller, who has a cool European eye for the vacant lots and oddities of America). Behind it all is the wry, angry, uncomfortably political intelligence of Cox - who hung out with real repo men. This unforgettable movie is not to be missed - though full of superb jokes, it has a weird integrity, something melancholy and serious, at its core that stays with you.