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Plot: A documentary about actor/director Dennis Hopper, showing him at his home and studio putting together his film “The Last Movie.”
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	6.6/10 Votes: 430
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fascinating window into Dennis Hopper’s world circa 1971
This warts-and-all documentary of Dennis Hopper at home in Taos, New Mexico, in the period after the filming but before the release of his amazing THE LAST MOVIE, provides a fascinating window into a world that is forever gone and probably only lasted for a short time: the period when the sixties were over but we were still running on fumes from the sixties and things had not yet crashed and burned. This was a year when you could go see a film like VANISHING POINT at a mainstream movie theater and when THE LAST MOVIE was released by a major studio. I was an adolescent at that time and can testify that Hopper represented a heroic image to many of us back then. I never got to see this film at the time because it did not get much distribution. How interesting to see it thirty-three years later. Hopper raises so many interesting questions and issues in THE American DREAMER, but rambler and dreamer that he is, he moves on without stopping to analyze or apply any of it. Perhaps Mr. Hopper expected US to make the next move fueled by the ideas he threw us. The film itself shows Hopper at home editing what would become THE LAST MOVIE, pontificating on all kinds of subjects regarding the arts, society, sex, drugs,his own legacy, and life in general. Intercut with this is footage of Hopper taking his clothes off on the street in a residential neighborhood, shooting various guns, talking with representatives from Universal about THE LAST MOVIE, walking around. Voice-overs of Hopper thinking aloud are played during these scenes. The music is an assemblage of vaguely philosophical stoner folk that perfectly reflects the atmosphere. Hopper talks about honesty in film, and he certainly lives by his own ideology as this is one of the least flattering artist-approved film biographies I’ve ever seen. Bob Dylan’s DON’T LOOK BACK and Woody Allen’s WILD MAN BLUES are the only other films about well-known celebrities I’d include on the same shelf. If Mr. Hopper owns the rights to this, he should definitely release it on DVD. By the way, I mentioned earlier about the sixties crashing and burning (as symbolized in the final scene of VANISHING POINT). The film that for me documents the final nail in the coffin of the sixties spirit is WONDERLAND.

I have just wasted 90 minutes of my life.
I’m always wary of someone who makes a documentary about the making of a film or a portrait of a film-maker at work, that it isn’t just an ego-trip particularly if the film-maker in question hasn’t really earned his stripes. I’ve always thought that Dennis Hopper was more famous for being Dennis Hopper than for anything he did in the cinema. He made one great movie, (“Easy Rider”), but that feels like a fluke and he gave one great performance, (in “Blue Velvet”), yet you always felt he was just playing himself.

After the success of “Easy Rider” he embarked on “The Last Movie” and Lawrence Schiller and L M Kit Carson took it on themselves to film him at work although, except for one scene, little actual work appeared to be done. What this documentary tells us is that Hopper was a mostly talentless hack with ideas way above his station, (he sure as hell was no Orson Welles though he himself seemed to think he might be), and with a ridiculously high interest in sex, or at least in talking about it.

Whether or not Schiller and Carson knew they were doing Hopper no favors is hard to tell. Personally, I got the impression they thought they were recording the thoughts of a genius which might say more about them than it does about Hopper. What remains is a picture of an ego run riot though, on hindsight, giving Hopper and his co-conspirators 90 minutes out of my life seems a trifle generous on my part. Still, there are some great Gene Clark songs on the soundtrack.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 21 min (81 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Documentary, Biography
Director L.M. Kit Carson, Lawrence Schiller
Writer Lawrence Schiller, L.M. Kit Carson, Dennis Hopper
Actors Dennis Hopper, Princess Lida Amun, L.M. Kit Carson
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.33 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 16 mm
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format DCP (2K), 16 mm