Dennis Hopper's $1 million disasterpiece that destroyed Hollywood's faith in him — now with bonus unfinished documentary!
The unfinished documentary about the making of Dennis Hopper's mostly unseen feature film The Last Movie (1971).
Direction
Alex Cox's punk filmmaker sensibility perfectly matches Hopper's unhinged ambition
Editing
Fragments stitched together like evidence from a crime scene
Director
Alex Cox
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Alex Cox discovered this footage in 2008, decades after it was shot, in a UCLA archive with no clear ownership records.
This doc and Hopper's original film together form the ultimate cautionary tale about what happens when Easy Rider success convinces you that every impulse is genius.
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