New digital restoration of Dennis Hopper's famed film!
THE LAST
MOVIE (1971):
Consciously self-reflexive and co-written by Hopper and
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE screenwriter Stewart Stern, THE LAST MOVIE follows
a Hollywood movie crew in the midst of making a western in a remote
Peruvian village. When production wraps, Hopper, as the baleful stuntman
Kansas, remains, attempting to find redemption in the isolation of
Peru. Meanwhile, the locals have taken over the abandoned set and begun
to stage a ritualistic re-enactment of the production - with Kansas as
their sacrificial lamb.
Among the most storied productions of the
"New Hollywood" era, Dennis Hopper was given carte blanche by Universal
for his next directorial feature after the tremendous commercial
success of EASY RIDER, and the writer-director-star took the money and
ran – literally – staging THE LAST MOVIE in Peru at farthest remove from
the Hollywood machine, with an on-screen entourage in tow that included
Kris Kristofferson, Julie Adams, Stella Garcia, Peter Fonda, Dean
Stockwell, Toni Basil, Russ Tamblyn, Michelle Phillips and director
Samuel Fuller.