Rent The Last Movie (1971)
3.1 of 5 from 82 ratings
1h 48min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- A film shoot in Peru goes badly wrong when an actor is killed in a stunt, and the unit wrangler, Kansas (Dennis Hopper), decides to give up film-making and stay on in the village, shacking up with local prostitute Maria (Stella Garcia). 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...
- Actors:
- Julie Adams, Daniel Ades, Richmond L. Aguilar, John Alderman, Michael Anderson Jr., Donna Baccala, Charles Bail, Tom Baker, Toni Basil, Poupée Bocar, Anna Lynn Brown, Rod Cameron, Bernard Casselman, Earl Clark, Manuel Concha, James Contrares, Severn Darden, Louis Donelan, Eddy Donno, Roy Engel
- Directors:
- Dennis Hopper
- Producers:
- Paul Lewis
- Writers:
- Dennis Hopper, Stewart Stern
- Aka:
- Chinchero
- Studio:
- Rapid Eye Movies
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 21/01/2019
- Run Time:
- 108 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono, Spanish LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- The Guardian Interview with Dennis Hopper (1990, 91 mins): archival audio recording of the filmmaker and actor in conversation with critic Derek Malcolm at London's National Film Theatre Dennis Hopper Video Introduction (2007, 2 mins)
- Scene Missing (2012, 50 mins): documentary directed by Alex Cox on the making of 'The Last Movie'
- Some Kind of Genius (1986, 30 mins): Paul Joyce's documentary portrait of Dennis Hopper Postcards from Peru (2018, 32 mins): new interviews with members of the Peruvian cast and crew
- 8mm On-set Footage (1970, 10 mins, silent): rare and previously unseen material shot on location by actors John Phillip Law and Victor Maymudes
- The Dick Cavett Show (1971, 7 mins): extract from the popular US chat show, featuring an interview with Hopper
- Restoration Demonstration (3 mins)
- 1971 product reel
- Original 1971 theatrical trailer
- 2018 UK re-release trailer
- Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography
- UK premiere on Blu-ray
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Reviews (1) of The Last Movie
Wild - The Last Movie review by griggs
The Last Movie is a wild one—proper mad. Hopper takes this great idea about a film crew shooting a Western in Peru, then ditches the plot halfway and dives headfirst into chaos. It’s like watching the making of Apocalypse Now before Apocalypse Now was made, only scrappier and even more stoned out of its mind.
The whole “locals start making their own version of the film” bit is genius, but it leans hard into that cringey first-world gaze—like, look at these ‘primitive’ people play-acting. It’s patronising, even if they seem to be having way more fun than the Americans melting down around them. Hopper’s direction is all over the place, but kind of hypnotic. The cast drifts in and out—but the real star is the editing: jumpy, messy, but weirdly perfect. It’d make a cracking double-bill with Alex Cox’s Walker. Not flawless, but fascinating, especially if you like your films a bit feral.
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