
A film shoot in Peru goes badly wrong when an actor is killed in a stunt, and the unit wrangler, Kansas, decides to give up film-making and stay on in the village, shacking up with local prostitute Maria. But his dreams of an unspoiled existence are interrupted when the local priest asks him to help stop the villagers killing each other by re-enacting scenes from the film for real because they don't understand movie fakery...... (Full plot summary below)
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A film shoot in Peru goes badly wrong when an actor is killed in a stunt, and the unit wrangler, Kansas, decides to give up film-making and stay on in the village, shacking up with local prostitute Maria. But his dreams of an unspoiled existence are interrupted when the local priest asks him to help stop the villagers killing each other by re-enacting scenes from the film for real because they don't understand movie fakery...
Leave your thoughts about The Last Movie.
| GuardianPeter BradshawThe film fades out but not before it's given us a brilliant, exhilarating adventure in ideas. |
| TIME MagazineStefan KanferThat sound you hear is of checkbooks closing all over Hollywood. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanOne of the craziest (and druggiest) movies ever made, it's also blatantly self-deconstructing and meta to the max, albeit produced years before those terms became commonplace. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertDennis Hopper's The Last Movie is a wasteland of cinematic wreckage. |
| Village VoiceBilge EbiriThe representational fissures of cinema - the tension between the real and the imaginary, between imitation and inspiration - have been woven into its very fabric. |
| Radio TimesAlan JonesOne of the all-time classics of pretentiously incomprehensible cinema. |
| User ReviewCamden MOutstanding, inspired - far over-fulfills the promise of Easy Rider; far too ahead of it's time. |
| User ReviewR.John Xdennis hopper's LAST MOVIE - hopper loves processions, they must symbolize the artifice of his immersion style of film-making - great scene as he moves through the rooms of music, by 1971 the hippie dippy sing-a-long must have worn thin, noisy, and lame - much like the cocktail party, piano parlor parties of the bougie squares that preceded the hipps. - so the Peruvians are idiots, satanists, and made the reality pretend and the pretend reality! And Milian is miscast as the benevolent priest, he should have been the fake director - Dirty Americans always looking for girls to kiss. - "This place is such a mess. Harry kills everything. And he never throws anything away." - Mrs. Anderson - holy shit. |
| User ReviewPrivate UStunning emotionally and visually, Goddard inspired and the true end of an era movie, forget Easy rider, forget normal narrative, an award winner at the Venice film festival, Americans of course didnt understand it unsurprisingly, this was Hoppers tour de force before he finally cracked. Comments on the nature of the western and Hoppers early career in them, the 60s, emotional loss, love, identity, sexuality (all the REAL stuff) and the nature of film itself. This isnt a film to be understood but felt, and Hopper looks his best in it, the cowboy rebel in touch with his ´femine side. Savour a genius at work. a la Peckinpah. |
| User ReviewTom KForget Easy Rider, this is Hopper's best film and the *real* film about the end of the 60s and the "death of the dream" haha. So where the hell is the DVD already? |