Event

The Last Movie

Fri Aug 17: 7.30pm
Sat Aug 18: 4.15pm, 7.30pm
Sun Aug 19: 4.30pm, 7.30pm
Mon Aug 20: 3.00pm
Tue Aug 21: 3.00pm
Wed Aug 22: 7.30pm
Thu Aug 23: 7.30pm

Dennis Hopper
US
1971
1h 48m
About
** New 4K restoration! **

Coming off of his success with Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper was given carte blanche from Universal to make whatever movie he wanted to next. What happened was The Last Movie, a film that was notorious for being riddled with on-set drama and drugs, with almost 50 hours of footage to edit, was critically panned, and has not been able to be seen on the big screen since its release in 1971 until now.

Loosely, The Last Movie is a film within a film that follows Kansas, a stunt man (played by Hopper) on the set of a Western in Peru. When the film wraps, Kansas stays behind, falling for a young woman, and begins a search for gold, while the local community starts to film their own movie, not understanding what is fake and what is real. Among beautiful sets and vast landscapes Hopper and his entourage (that includes Kris Kristofferson, Peter Fonda, Michelle Phillips, and director Samuel Fuller) move through the film as if in a dream. The edits dont quite make sense, the music doesnt quite match up, but the experience leaves you enthralled. An inspired experiment, The Last Movie is what the late Dennis Hopper considered to be his lost masterwork.