The Last Movie

DENNIS HOPPER HIMSELF HAS CALLED this sequel to Easy Rider, ''a film about films''. The action takes place in Peru in an area where originally a village founded by the Inca Indians was situated. An American Western about Billy the Kid is being filmed. This story about the stuntman Kansas' destiny and the reactions of the local Indian population belong to the category ''you have to see it to believe it''. Great parts of the action was improvised on location. ..
Comment:
THE LAST MOVIE WON THE Venice Film Festival in 1971, the only prize given that year, a literary award called C.LD.A.L.C. I brought the film back to the United States after the festival, and Universal Pictures told me that they would not distribute it unless I reedited. I had final cut, and refused. The film only played two weeks in New York, two weeks in Los Angeles, and three days in San Francisco, and then was shelved by Universal Pictures. It was never seen in Europe until I owned it some ten years later. I feel about this film like an artist laying out his pallet, showing the many types of films that he could direct and the various colors that he had been exposed to. A lot of people feel that this is my finest film. I don't. I think of it as Abstract Expressionism. As the Abstract Expressionist painter used paint as paint, I used film as film; torn, scene missing, clapped board, I don't have my fucking scar on, day for night.
DENNIS HOPPER

Cast
Dennis Hopper, Sam Fuller, Stella Garcia: Producer
Paul Lewis: Script
Dennis Hopper, Stewart Stern: Cinematography
Laszlo Kovacs: Music
Kris Kristofferson, Severn Darden, Chabuca Granda, John Buck Wilkin: Spoken language
English