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The Last Movie|Dennis Hopper

The Last Movie

Dennis Hopper
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Overview

The talented screenwriter Stewart Stern (REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, which featured an early performance by Dennis Hopper) is credited with the screenplay for this bizarre film that followed Hopper's success with EASY RIDER. When a film shooting in a Peruvian mountain village shuts down production because of the death of one of the actors, stuntman Kansas (Hopper) chooses to stay behind with his lover, Maria (Stella Garcia), a local prostitute, and hopefully build a hotel. The villagers have been deeply affected by the shooting of the violent Western they've been observing and decide to make their own movie. Lacking equipment, they build their own, out of bamboo, and begin to reenact scenes from the Western. However, they haven't grasped the concept of the pulled punch, and things that are supposed to happen just on film actually occur in actuality. The film will be enjoyed by Hopper cultists while others will find it curiously strange and bizarre, but it serves as a reminder that he has a better eye for impressive painterly compositions than most directors.

Awards:

Main Cast & Crew:
Dennis Hopper - Director
Dennis Hopper
Don Gordon

Details

    Blu-Ray Disc Format
  • Format: Blu-ray
  • Run Time: 108
  • Color Format: Color
  • UPC: 663390002575
  • Genre: DRAMA
  • Rating: R (MPAA)
  • Release Date: November 2018

Movie Reviews

Synopsis:
Actor-writer-director Dennis Hopper followed up his smash EASY RIDER with this ambitious, self-referential, and intentionally disorienting work. This wild and wooly artifact of 1960s culture stars director Dennis Hopper as Kansas, a wrangler on a film that has shut down production as a result of the death of one of the actors. Disillusioned, the wrangler decides to quit the film business and stay in the Peruvian mountain village, with his lover, Maria (Stella Garcia), a local prostitute. But when the villagers, who had been following the shooting of the violent Western, decide they want to make their own film, things begin to get weird. Soon the movie-within-the-movie merges with the one unspooling before viewers' eyes--until the characters' frenzied perspective comes into focus.

Notes:
Shot on location in Chinchero, Peru. The film marked singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson's film debut. Director Sam Fuller plays the director of the movie-within-the-movie.

Reviews:
"...Impressive....This is movie making on the edge, without a psychic or stylistic net....THE LAST MOVIE is a piece of spiritual autobiography..." - 08/29/1988 Los Angeles Times, p.C5


"[I]t's a Western, it's a statement on American expansionism, it's a satire on Hollywood....This was a far more audacious film than anyone could have anticipated." - 07/01/2010 Uncut

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