ALEX COX on Dennis Hopper's THE LAST MOVIE | HCAF18

THE LAST MOVIE's turbulent production and subsequent removal from public access spawned a host of Hollywood legends. Now is your chance to learn some of the truth behind the film's creation.
In this HCAF18 interview, filmmaker ALEX COX discusses some of the troubles and triumphs behind Dennis Hopper's long lost film THE LAST MOVIE.
Special thanks to interviewer James Cole Clay!
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[@ludwigbooth4882]

I wish it was a film world...film as a religion...like 'Taxi Driver' or 'Mean Streets' (in both films the protagonists gravitate towards movies and theatres)...going to the movies as a way of life...giant movie houses...each with it's own soul and personality...Texas Theatre...going to the movies felt like stepping into another world...no $5.50 bottles of water...a real true marquee lights and all place to be...it's just not like that anymore...the old private, all engrossing, movie experience is gone it feels like...when I was young, the was real, pure movie magic...I worship film...nothing else comes close...nobody understands me like the movies do. I'm so alone.

[@johncall7532]

I think the film sector is as over-rated as it is self-congratulatory.

[@ludwigbooth4882]

@Jim Newcombe Texas

[@09nob]

@@johncall7532 How so?

[@billinrio]

When we went to Machu Picchu part of it had been closed by the authorities as a result, we were told, of Dennis Hopper having used the site for his film "The Last Movie" (that the New York Times called "a gigantic ego trip") and in the process had destroyed some artifacts.

[@Bibidrego578]

The Last Movie influenced the Pink8 manifesto & the Misrule cinema movement

[@ludwigbooth4882]

pretty sweet interview

[@Bacalao2929]

I downloaded it off of Pirate Bay

[@Pastmistakes414]

How about putting the second camera on the guy actually telling the stories? The interviewer brings nothing to this vid so we don’t need to see him.

[@bjharvey3021]

The interviewee is addressing the interviewer, not ignoring him.

[@billshire2681]

But Hopper and Fonda ripped off Terry Southern on Easy Rider so......karma ?

[@XavierKatzone]

Easy Rider was a hit because it hit the zeitgeist if the '60s at the right time. Nicholson and the soundtrack were the best things about it. Last Movie is an abysmal, self-absorbed mess. I'm glad I saw it, but I didn't enjoy it. I think for all his "method" acting talk, Hopper was best when he played an edgy unpredictable character close to his own personality and experience (eg. photojournalist in Apoc Now). He did not appear to be an "actor" capable of creating much diversity or uniqueness in a variety of individual character types.

[@domoroboto8752]

he literally critiques himself in The Last Movie how is it self-absorbed? It’s self aware and no more self-absorbed than any of us are

[@raleighsmalls4653]

Yeh...overrated Navy brat. The American Friend is where that character came from.

[@DoubleOProductions]

How can a man who gave up making films decades ago because he's so awful at it possibly have an opinion about films.... met him a number of times..even in a local pub... he looked at everyone at the table and asked if anyone was going to buy him a pint.. then he talked a load of BS memorised from pulpy film critique books trying to pass himself of as an intellectual.....