The man who taught James Dean to rebel and Hollywood to panic.
We are taken though the principal milestones of Hopper's biography, including his debut start in Hollywood, the meeting with James Dean and the influence he played upon him, his insubordination on sets and conflicts with the Hollywood directors which led to his black-listing, the years in New, the making of 'Easy Rider' (with an interesting connection of the ultimate road movie with the French new wave directors), 'Apocalypse Now', 'Blue Velvet', 'Colors', his fight with dependency on drugs and alcohol. We come to know Hopper as a complex artist, a valuable photographer who had always a camera on him and whose portraits or American life shots figure among the best in the genre, but also a rebel painter (who may still be rediscovered and become famous in posterity) and exquisite art collector.
Acting
Hopper performing his own mythology, unfiltered.
Direction
Riecker and Lohner let the contradictions breathe.
Director
Henning Lohner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hopper reportedly carried a camera everywhere from 1961 onward, amassing over 10,000 photographs now held in museum collections.
The documentary's French release timing positioned Hopper as the missing link between American New Hollywood and European auteur cinema.
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