1971. A
documentary about actor/director Dennis Hopper, showing him at his home
and studio putting together his film "The Last Movie."
This self-indulgent, masturbatory
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.
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.
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. |
