The Last Movie (1971)
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83% of critics liked it
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60% of users liked it
(686 ratings)
With a barrage of cinematic distancing devices at hand (flashbacks and flash-forwards, super-imposed titles, missing frames, projectionist cue-marks placed in the wrong locations in a film reel), Dennis Hopper concocts a hallucinatory acid-trip concerning an American movie company making a western… More With a barrage of cinematic distancing devices at hand (flashbacks and flash-forwards, super-imposed titles, missing frames, projectionist cue-marks placed in the wrong locations in a film reel), Dennis Hopper concocts a hallucinatory acid-trip concerning an American movie company making a western in Peru. In a remote mountain village in Peru, a Hollywood film company wraps up shooting a western and returns to California. Staying behind is a young stunt man, Kansas (Dennis Hopper). In the village, he takes up with the resident whore, Maria (Stella Garcia). At this point, the film flash-forwards to Kansas being crucified by the villagers. Back in the old time frame, the Peruvians decide that they want to make their own movie. Not having the necessary film equipment, but plenty of local raw material, the villagers construct the needed cameras, microphones, and sound recorders out of bamboo, and although the equipment is faked, the villagers substitute real, bloody violence for the make-believe violence of Hollywood. During this eruption of violence in the Peruvian village, the local priest (Tomas Milian) blames Kansas for the carnage. The priest decides that movies are the root of all worldly evil and convinces the villagers to seize Kansas. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
- Directed By
- Dennis Hopper
- Genres
- Drama
R,
- In Theaters
- Sep 29, 1971 Wide
Critic Reviews
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J. Hoberman, Village Voice
One 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.
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Vincent Canby, New York Times
My mind had a good deal of trouble tolerating the inflated pretensions of Hopper, who, it's now apparent, is gifted with all of the insights of a weekend mystic who drives to and from his retreat in a Jaguar.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
No other studio-released film of the period is quite so formally audacious.
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Fernando F. Croce, CinePassion
The implosion of film is Hopper's topic and style, he risks pretension and reaps wonders
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The allegory attempted was so bizarre and unlike any Hollywood venture, that it's worth checking out for all the potential it had but never realized.
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Cast
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Dennis Hopper
as Kansas
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Stella Garcia
as Maria
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Samuel Fuller
as Director
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Peter Fonda
as Sheriff
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Julie Adams
as Mrs. Anderson
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Kris Kristofferson
as Minstrel Wrangler
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Dan Ades
as Thomas Mercado
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Rich Aguilar
as Gaffer
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John Alderman
as Jonathan
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Donna Baccala
as Miss Anderson
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Toni Basil
as Rose
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Poupée Bocar
as Singer
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Anna Lynn Brown
as Dance Hall Girl
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Rod Cameron
as Pat Garrett
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Severn Darden
as Mayor
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Roy Engel
as Harry Anderson
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Warren Finnerty
as Banker
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Fritz Ford
as Citizen
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Michael Greene
as Hired Gun
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Al Hopson
as Sheriff
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John Phillip Law
as Little Brother
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Ted Markland
as Big Brother
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Tomas Milian
as Priest
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Sylvia Miles
as Script Clerk
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Tom Monroe
as Citizen
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Owen Orr
as Hired Gun
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Michelle Phillips
as Banker's Daughter
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Robert Rothwell
as Citizen
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Richard Rust
as Pisco
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Dean Stockwell
as Billy
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Russ Tamblyn
as In Gang
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Allan Warnick
as Assistant Director
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Michael Anderson Jr.
as Mayor's Son
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Eddy Donno
as Stunt Man
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Don Gordon
as Neville
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Henry Jaglom
as Minister's Son
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Gray Johnson
as Stunt Man
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Clint Kimbrough
as Minister
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John Stevens
as Cameraman
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Jorge Montoro
as Jorge
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William Gray Espy
as In Billy's Gang
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James Mitchum
as Art
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George Hill
as Key Grip
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Tom Baker
as Member of Billy's Gang
