Steven Spielberg’s The Post, starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, will screen Jan. 4 as the opening-night film at the 29th Palm Springs International Film Festival. Adam Rifkin’s The Last Movie Star, starring Burt Reynolds as the aging title star of the pic, will serve as the closing-night film on Jan. 14.
The festival, which is set to run Jan. 2-15, will screen 180 films from 77 countries. The event will include all the films that are on the current shortlist for the best foreign-language film Oscar, a special program of movies from Argentina and special presentations of Paul Thomas...
The festival, which is set to run Jan. 2-15, will screen 180 films from 77 countries. The event will include all the films that are on the current shortlist for the best foreign-language film Oscar, a special program of movies from Argentina and special presentations of Paul Thomas...
- 12/15/2017
- by Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
By Todd Garbarini
Douglas Trumbull’s 1972 film Silent Running celebrates its 45th anniversary with a special screening at Laemmle's Ahrya Fine Arts Theatre in Los Angeles. Starring Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, and Ron Rifkin, the G-rated film runs 89 minutes and is being showcased on the big screen in a rare opportunity.
Please Note: Director Douglas Trumbull and Producer Michael Gruskoff are scheduled to appear in person for a Q & A following the screening.
From the press release:
Silent Running (1972)
45th Anniversary Screening
Wednesday, December 13, at 7:30pm at the Ahrya Fine Arts
Q&A with Special Guests Director Douglas Trumbull and Producer Michael Gruskoff
Laemmle Theatres and the Anniversary Classics Series present a 45th anniversary screening of the groundbreaking sci-fi movie Silent Running which marked the directorial debut of special effects wizard Douglas Trumbull. Set 100 years in the future, the prophetic script by Deric Washburn, Michael Cimino, and Steven Bochco...
Douglas Trumbull’s 1972 film Silent Running celebrates its 45th anniversary with a special screening at Laemmle's Ahrya Fine Arts Theatre in Los Angeles. Starring Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, and Ron Rifkin, the G-rated film runs 89 minutes and is being showcased on the big screen in a rare opportunity.
Please Note: Director Douglas Trumbull and Producer Michael Gruskoff are scheduled to appear in person for a Q & A following the screening.
From the press release:
Silent Running (1972)
45th Anniversary Screening
Wednesday, December 13, at 7:30pm at the Ahrya Fine Arts
Q&A with Special Guests Director Douglas Trumbull and Producer Michael Gruskoff
Laemmle Theatres and the Anniversary Classics Series present a 45th anniversary screening of the groundbreaking sci-fi movie Silent Running which marked the directorial debut of special effects wizard Douglas Trumbull. Set 100 years in the future, the prophetic script by Deric Washburn, Michael Cimino, and Steven Bochco...
- 12/7/2017
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Wow! Nintendo is actually getting back into the movie business! The last movie they were involved with a film was the awesomely bad 1993 live-action Super Mario Bros. film with Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo. After that experience, Nintendo didn't allow for any more of their other properties to be adapted into films.
Well, they are actually going to attempt to make a new Super Mario Bros. movie and this time they are looking to team up with Illumination Entertainment to do it. This time around, the movie will be animated and it's being done by the animation team that brought us films such as Despicable Me and The Secret Life of Pets.
According to The Wall Street Journal, “people with knowledge of the discussions,” say that Nintendo and Illumination are close to signing an agreement that will bring Mario back to the big screen. Nintendo is obviously being very cautious with their properties,...
Well, they are actually going to attempt to make a new Super Mario Bros. movie and this time they are looking to team up with Illumination Entertainment to do it. This time around, the movie will be animated and it's being done by the animation team that brought us films such as Despicable Me and The Secret Life of Pets.
According to The Wall Street Journal, “people with knowledge of the discussions,” say that Nintendo and Illumination are close to signing an agreement that will bring Mario back to the big screen. Nintendo is obviously being very cautious with their properties,...
- 11/14/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Dennis Hopper was a legend. His tumultuous career — replete with soaring highs and harrowing lows — was matched only by his turbulent and unruly personal life. The director behind the prototype for American independent cinema, the classic “Easy Rider,” Hopper’s career began alongside that of James Dean, whom he shared the screen with twice, before bottoming out with his ambitious disaster “The Last Movie” when he was blackballed by the industry for his indignance and difficult attitude.
Continue reading ‘Along For The Ride’ Needlessly Adorns Dennis Hopper’s Legacy With Saintliness [Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Along For The Ride’ Needlessly Adorns Dennis Hopper’s Legacy With Saintliness [Review] at The Playlist.
- 11/2/2017
- by Gary Garrison
- The Playlist
An official trailer has arrived for a documentary titled Along for the Ride, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival last year. Along for the Ride profiles the life and career of actor Dennis Hopper, who you will recognize from all kinds of different movies over the years. Hopper passed away in 2010, but earned two Oscar nominations over his long career. "Method actor, filmmaker, photographer, fine artist, art collector, and all-American madman." The doc includes a score by Gemma Thompson of the critically acclaimed band Savages, along with plenty of interviews with his friends and colleagues including Wim Wenders, Dwight Yoakam, David Lynch, Michael Madsen, Dean Stockwell, and many others. "Through the triumph of Easy Rider, the magnificent career suicide of The Last Movie, the overlooked masterpiece Out of the Blue, and a midlife comeback after plenty of booze and brawling, Along for the Ride is a vivacious work of...
- 10/27/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Sylvester Stallone recently confirmed on his Instagram account that he's not only staring in and producing Creed 2, but he's directing it as well! Yep, Stallone is getting back behind the camera to direct again. The last movie that he directed was The Expendables back in 2010. In regards to Creed 2, Stallone made the following statement:
“Looking forward to directing and Producing The incredibly talented Michael B Jordan in Creed 2 next year … One more Round !”
I think it's great that Stallone will be directing Creed 2! I loved the first film and I'm excited about this sequel, especially because Dolph Lundgren is set to reprise his role of the Russian boxer Ivan Drago. He has already started his training! The thought of seeing Rocky and Drago coming face to face again is exciting!
There are no details on the story for the sequel yet, but there's a good chance that we'll see Michael B.
“Looking forward to directing and Producing The incredibly talented Michael B Jordan in Creed 2 next year … One more Round !”
I think it's great that Stallone will be directing Creed 2! I loved the first film and I'm excited about this sequel, especially because Dolph Lundgren is set to reprise his role of the Russian boxer Ivan Drago. He has already started his training! The thought of seeing Rocky and Drago coming face to face again is exciting!
There are no details on the story for the sequel yet, but there's a good chance that we'll see Michael B.
- 10/10/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
The Toronto market has another buyer.
Arbelos, a new boutique distributor focusing on the release of both new and restored classic art house titles, officially launched at this year's Toronto Film Festival. The company's first release will be a 4K restoration of Dennis Hopper's 1971 cult classic The Last Movie, which will get a new theatrical bow, and its first ever Blu-ray and digital streaming release, via Arbelos in 2018.
Arbelos looks to blending both new independent features with 4K restorations of classic and cult films, cutting across all genres and eras, the group said. Arbelos plans to release 6-8...
Arbelos, a new boutique distributor focusing on the release of both new and restored classic art house titles, officially launched at this year's Toronto Film Festival. The company's first release will be a 4K restoration of Dennis Hopper's 1971 cult classic The Last Movie, which will get a new theatrical bow, and its first ever Blu-ray and digital streaming release, via Arbelos in 2018.
Arbelos looks to blending both new independent features with 4K restorations of classic and cult films, cutting across all genres and eras, the group said. Arbelos plans to release 6-8...
- 9/8/2017
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Tony Sokol Aug 21, 2017
Versatile, innovative and controversial, Jerry Lewis leaves a legacy of laughs and charity work.
Jerry Lewis, the legendary comedian, actor, singer and philanthropist, has died at the age of 91.
Lewis is as well known for starring and directing films like The Nutty Professor, Cinderfella, and The Bellboy as he is for his marathon fundraising telethons on Us TV for Muscular Dystrophy. He first found fame with his legendary ten-year partnership with Dean Martin.
Lewis paired with Dean Martin in 1946. Starting in nightclubs, Martin and Lewis moved their way through almost countless radio shows and made 16 movies. The pair costarred in such films as My Friend Irma (1949), At War With the Army (1950), Sailor Beware (1952), The Caddy (1953), Living It Up (1954), You’re Never Too Young (1955), and Artists And Models (1955). The last movie they made together was Hollywood Or Bust (1956).
After the partnership ended, Lewis teamed with director Frank Tashlin...
Versatile, innovative and controversial, Jerry Lewis leaves a legacy of laughs and charity work.
Jerry Lewis, the legendary comedian, actor, singer and philanthropist, has died at the age of 91.
Lewis is as well known for starring and directing films like The Nutty Professor, Cinderfella, and The Bellboy as he is for his marathon fundraising telethons on Us TV for Muscular Dystrophy. He first found fame with his legendary ten-year partnership with Dean Martin.
Lewis paired with Dean Martin in 1946. Starting in nightclubs, Martin and Lewis moved their way through almost countless radio shows and made 16 movies. The pair costarred in such films as My Friend Irma (1949), At War With the Army (1950), Sailor Beware (1952), The Caddy (1953), Living It Up (1954), You’re Never Too Young (1955), and Artists And Models (1955). The last movie they made together was Hollywood Or Bust (1956).
After the partnership ended, Lewis teamed with director Frank Tashlin...
- 8/20/2017
- Den of Geek
The last movie Bill Paxton ever made, The Circle, reunited him with his Apollo 13 co-star Tom Hanks. Now, a special feature on that Blu-Ray disc includes Hanks looking back at the time they spent together on a very small set.
- 8/1/2017
- cinemablend.com
I’m honestly not sure why these Planet of the Apes prequels work so well. On paper they’re a disaster: a trilogy of prequels to a movie that while historically significant is not relevant in the modern era except for having a famous twist ending everyone knows. Every movie sets itself up as a conflict between humans and apes and the titles reveal that the humans don’t stand much of a chance. They work because there’s a real heart here, there are great performances from both humans and CGI apes. Everyone in War for the Planet of the Apes cares about the stakes so much that you can’t help but be completely invested. These movies are beacons of earnestness in a cynical, sarcastic, landscape.
There’s a lot of plot in War and I’m not sure it’s all necessary. Head ape Caesar (Andy Serkis...
There’s a lot of plot in War and I’m not sure it’s all necessary. Head ape Caesar (Andy Serkis...
- 7/19/2017
- by Arthur Martinez-Tebbel
- Comicmix.com
In collaboration with Hasbro, Dan Mintz's Dmg Entertainment is launching immersive and interactive Transformers digital simulation experience centers first in Shanghai and then expanding to other Chinese cities over a five-year span. The last movie in the franchise — Transformers: Age Of Extinction is now the No. 3 import of all time in the Middle Kingdom so they are rolling it out in a country that has fully embraced the series of Paramount Pictures’ films. For Dmg, they…...
- 5/23/2017
- Deadline
Las Lindas examines notions of 'feminity' The Iberodocs festival celebrating Spanish, Portuguese and Latin-American factual filmmakers returns to Edinburgh Filmhouse for its fourth edition from May 10 to 14.
The festival will open with Ada For Mayor (Alcaldessa) - about activist Ada Colau's bid to become mayor of Barcelona. It will close with documentary about the wisdom of the elderly I'm Still Here (Sigo Aqui). In addition to the film screenings, there will also be a masterclass with Salamancan director Ricardo Íscar and an Editing Documentary Films workshop at Edinburgh College of Art, plus live music events.
Other films in the schedule include an exploration of Dennis Hopper's legacy in the Peruvian town of Chinchero, where he shot The Last Movie and essay film about feminity and expectations, The Pretty Ones (Las Lindas).
The films showing are:
Ada For Mayor (Alcaldessa) Rest In Peace Mr Hopper (Descanse En Paz, Mister...
The festival will open with Ada For Mayor (Alcaldessa) - about activist Ada Colau's bid to become mayor of Barcelona. It will close with documentary about the wisdom of the elderly I'm Still Here (Sigo Aqui). In addition to the film screenings, there will also be a masterclass with Salamancan director Ricardo Íscar and an Editing Documentary Films workshop at Edinburgh College of Art, plus live music events.
Other films in the schedule include an exploration of Dennis Hopper's legacy in the Peruvian town of Chinchero, where he shot The Last Movie and essay film about feminity and expectations, The Pretty Ones (Las Lindas).
The films showing are:
Ada For Mayor (Alcaldessa) Rest In Peace Mr Hopper (Descanse En Paz, Mister...
- 5/5/2017
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Screen Rant spoke with Kurt Russell recently about his involvement in the Fast And The Furious franchise. Starting with the franchise in the seventh movie as the character Mr. Nobody, he's been a part of the financial zenith of that film series. He commented about his previous reluctance to work on sequels.
"Well, all my life I’ve never been one for sequels and stuff. I’ve done it one time with Escape From La, which was from Escape From New York, which was 17 years earlier. But we live in a different time now. We live in a time where that’s the norm. I’ve never had anything against it, I just think that each time what I think they’ve learned now, is that you can’t just throw a sequel out there because you did good business. You have to go after it to make it even better.
"Well, all my life I’ve never been one for sequels and stuff. I’ve done it one time with Escape From La, which was from Escape From New York, which was 17 years earlier. But we live in a different time now. We live in a time where that’s the norm. I’ve never had anything against it, I just think that each time what I think they’ve learned now, is that you can’t just throw a sequel out there because you did good business. You have to go after it to make it even better.
- 4/20/2017
- by Tim Jousma
- LRMonline.com
The release of Fate of the Furious -- the latest installment in the high octane Fast & Furious franchise -- is a bittersweet moment for the film's cast, it being the first fully filmed since Paul Walker's death in 2013. As fans will remember, Walker died during filming of Furious 7, which was released last year and gave the actor an emotional farewell from the franchise.
While Walker may be gone, he's definitely not forgotten -- and he was certainly being remembered fondly by the cast of Fate when Et's Kevin Frazier caught up with them on the red carpet at the movie's premiere in New York on Saturday.
"I'm still reeling from the loss, the idea of of continuing along without my brother Pablo and what that felt like and the complexities of that," admits Vin Diesel, using his nickname for Walker.
While Walker may be gone, he's definitely not forgotten -- and he was certainly being remembered fondly by the cast of Fate when Et's Kevin Frazier caught up with them on the red carpet at the movie's premiere in New York on Saturday.
"I'm still reeling from the loss, the idea of of continuing along without my brother Pablo and what that felt like and the complexities of that," admits Vin Diesel, using his nickname for Walker.
- 4/9/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.
Three New Movies May Have Trouble Making Much of a Mark
After a couple impressive March weekends with one new box office record, and a couple impressive openings, we’re now into April, and of the new movies, there just doesn’t seem like anything can defeat last week’s powerful duo of DreamWorks Animation’s The Boss Baby--which exceeded all predictions with $49 million, taking the top spot from Beauty and the Beast. Ghost in the Shell didn’t even do as well as I thought it may, opening with just $19 million, those late reviews helping to kill its weekend.
Sony Pictures Animation are giving the loveable blue Smurfs a third go at American audiences with The Smurfs: The Lost Village (Sony), after two previous movies,...
Three New Movies May Have Trouble Making Much of a Mark
After a couple impressive March weekends with one new box office record, and a couple impressive openings, we’re now into April, and of the new movies, there just doesn’t seem like anything can defeat last week’s powerful duo of DreamWorks Animation’s The Boss Baby--which exceeded all predictions with $49 million, taking the top spot from Beauty and the Beast. Ghost in the Shell didn’t even do as well as I thought it may, opening with just $19 million, those late reviews helping to kill its weekend.
Sony Pictures Animation are giving the loveable blue Smurfs a third go at American audiences with The Smurfs: The Lost Village (Sony), after two previous movies,...
- 4/7/2017
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
“Can’t repeat the past? Why, of course you can… of course you can.”
If Jay Gatsby had been born 80 or 90 years later, he could easily have run a movie studio instead of running booze — after all, repeating the past seems to be all that Hollywood really does these days. Of course, the film industry has always sustained itself by transfiguring history into images and then embalming them as culture (that business approach is baked into the medium itself, which allows artists to paint with time as vividly as they might with color), but there’s a vast difference between revisiting our memories and resigning to them; there’s a vast difference between looking at a green light across a misty harbor, and being so mesmerized by the promise of its fading emerald glow that it obscures the possibility of all other futures.
Once upon a time, Disney adapted classic...
If Jay Gatsby had been born 80 or 90 years later, he could easily have run a movie studio instead of running booze — after all, repeating the past seems to be all that Hollywood really does these days. Of course, the film industry has always sustained itself by transfiguring history into images and then embalming them as culture (that business approach is baked into the medium itself, which allows artists to paint with time as vividly as they might with color), but there’s a vast difference between revisiting our memories and resigning to them; there’s a vast difference between looking at a green light across a misty harbor, and being so mesmerized by the promise of its fading emerald glow that it obscures the possibility of all other futures.
Once upon a time, Disney adapted classic...
- 4/3/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Box OfficeWhat this weekend’s flops say about a couple of May releases.
There was plenty of good news over the weekend as box office reports show Beauty and the Beast crossing the $300m mark after only 10 days, Get Out veering very close to the $150m milestone, and newcomer Power Rangers doing decent business ($41m) for something that didn’t seem suited for a large enough audience.
But there was some bad news, as well, with both Life and CHiPs falling short of their expectations for an estimated $13m and $8m, respectively. Considering they both resemble bigger movies coming out in two months, I can’t help considering how those genuine summer blockbusters — Alien: Covenant and Baywatch — might compare.
Huge releases and huge hits are happening year round these days, with seven movies already this year passing $100m domestically (only four of 2016’s releases hit that mark before the first quarter was over). Beauty and the Beast and...
There was plenty of good news over the weekend as box office reports show Beauty and the Beast crossing the $300m mark after only 10 days, Get Out veering very close to the $150m milestone, and newcomer Power Rangers doing decent business ($41m) for something that didn’t seem suited for a large enough audience.
But there was some bad news, as well, with both Life and CHiPs falling short of their expectations for an estimated $13m and $8m, respectively. Considering they both resemble bigger movies coming out in two months, I can’t help considering how those genuine summer blockbusters — Alien: Covenant and Baywatch — might compare.
Huge releases and huge hits are happening year round these days, with seven movies already this year passing $100m domestically (only four of 2016’s releases hit that mark before the first quarter was over). Beauty and the Beast and...
- 3/27/2017
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
BAMcinématek
Edward Yang’s Taipei Story has been restored and begins playing this week.
Metrograph
A great sci-fi series kicks off with 2001: A Space Odyssey.
A print of Dennis Hopper‘s The Last Movie plays on Friday and Sunday.
Film Forum
A rare 35mm print of Ozu’s Passing Fancy screens with musical accompaniment this Sunday,...
BAMcinématek
Edward Yang’s Taipei Story has been restored and begins playing this week.
Metrograph
A great sci-fi series kicks off with 2001: A Space Odyssey.
A print of Dennis Hopper‘s The Last Movie plays on Friday and Sunday.
Film Forum
A rare 35mm print of Ozu’s Passing Fancy screens with musical accompaniment this Sunday,...
- 3/17/2017
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
The last movie I watched in 2016 was Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill, which was almost a random selection from the numerous discs I've bought but haven't watched yet. I first watched the movie on broadcast television, sometime in the 1980s, and even all cut up and edited and interrupted with advertising, its fundamental power shook me up. Since then I've seen the theatrical release version multiple times, on cable and on DVD, and so when I popped it into my Blu-ray machine, I thought it might serve as a comfortable horror blanket, a bulwark against the expected gunfire and fireworks of a typical New Year's Eve in my low-budget apartment complex. I was wrong. Not only about New Year's Eve -- it was...
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- 1/6/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Michelle Williams must be loving the new cover of W magazine Barbra Streisand on the cover. The Blue Valentine actress is all about Babs. That's just one tidbit Williams revealed when she took some time to take part in E! News' "Going to the Movies" series. I Love My Popcorn With: "Butter and salt." My Favorite Movie Candy: "Peanut M&M's." My First Rated "R" Movie: Is Splash R-rated? It felt like that was when I was 12." My Favorite Animated Movie: "The Last Unicorn." The Last Movie To Make Me Cry: "It wasn't a movie. Unfortunately, it was real...Hillary's concession speech. That's just like...
- 11/18/2016
- E! Online
When was the last time Hunter Parrish laughed so hard that he cried?
The Good Girls Revolt star reveals during a round of People’s “One Last Thing” that tear-inducing laughs usually come from his wife Kathryn Wahl.
“I don’t have one time, I feel like I try to laugh as much as possible and any time I’m around my amazingly captivating and adorable wife I am constantly in tears with laughter,” he says.
Parrish, 29, plays hunky, progressive reporter Douglas Rhodes in the Amazon series about a group of women at Newsweek in the late ’60s who fought...
The Good Girls Revolt star reveals during a round of People’s “One Last Thing” that tear-inducing laughs usually come from his wife Kathryn Wahl.
“I don’t have one time, I feel like I try to laugh as much as possible and any time I’m around my amazingly captivating and adorable wife I am constantly in tears with laughter,” he says.
Parrish, 29, plays hunky, progressive reporter Douglas Rhodes in the Amazon series about a group of women at Newsweek in the late ’60s who fought...
- 11/10/2016
- by Char Adams
- PEOPLE.com
Paramount Pictures has scheduled Skydance Media’s Mission: Impossible 6 to be released on July 27th, 2018. You know what that means? It means that Tom Cruise might battle Jason Momoa at the box office because that’s the same date that Warner Bros. is looking to release James Wan’s Aquaman.
I’m a big fan of Cruise’s Mission: Impossible franchise. The last movie, Rogue Nation, was pretty awesome, so it’s good to know that writer and director of that film, Christopher McQuarrie, is coming back to helm the sixth film in the franchise as well. He will be the first director in the franchise to direct two films.
When talking about the sequel at CinemaCon last year, Cruise said that there will have "more incredible set pieces, stunts…and what I think is a very entertaining and compelling story.” The director later explained that the film would have its own unique style.
I’m a big fan of Cruise’s Mission: Impossible franchise. The last movie, Rogue Nation, was pretty awesome, so it’s good to know that writer and director of that film, Christopher McQuarrie, is coming back to helm the sixth film in the franchise as well. He will be the first director in the franchise to direct two films.
When talking about the sequel at CinemaCon last year, Cruise said that there will have "more incredible set pieces, stunts…and what I think is a very entertaining and compelling story.” The director later explained that the film would have its own unique style.
- 11/9/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
The New York Comic-Con has been over for a couple days now, but one of the panels that really drew a huge boisterous crowd was Screen Gems’ panel for Underworld: Blood Wars and Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, both opening in January.
As the title says, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is meant to end the series of six movies that began with Paul W.S. Anderson’s Resident Evil in 2002. From the very beginning, Milla Jovovich has played the films’ enigmatic kick-butt heroine Alice, and The Final Chapter is meant to put a close to her story.
Jovovich and Anderson came to the Theater at Madison Square Garden, along with Ali Larter, William Levy and Eoin Macken, to present the amazing new trailer for the movie, which you can watch below:
Right before the panel and trailer debut, Lrm had a chance to sit down and chat with Anderson.
Lrm:...
As the title says, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is meant to end the series of six movies that began with Paul W.S. Anderson’s Resident Evil in 2002. From the very beginning, Milla Jovovich has played the films’ enigmatic kick-butt heroine Alice, and The Final Chapter is meant to put a close to her story.
Jovovich and Anderson came to the Theater at Madison Square Garden, along with Ali Larter, William Levy and Eoin Macken, to present the amazing new trailer for the movie, which you can watch below:
Right before the panel and trailer debut, Lrm had a chance to sit down and chat with Anderson.
Lrm:...
- 10/14/2016
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
Dennis Hopper may have passed away six years ago, but his fans can still catch him in his last movie, “The Last Film Festival.” IndieWire has an exclusive new clip from the comedy which features Hopper asking a junior agent (Joseph Cross) why he’s in the movie biz, since for him it was because of Sophia Loren.
Directed by Linda Yellen, the film follows Nick Twain (Hopper), a failing Hollywood producer whose latest movie has been rejected by every film festival in the world except for one. When an obscure festival is the last hope for Twain and his disaster of a movie, he does anything to get his picture distributed, including manipulating his dysfunctional cast into attending. Jacqueline Bisset, Chris Kattan, JoBeth Williams and Leelee Sobieski co-star.
Read More: Dennis Hopper’s Swan Song ‘The Last Film Festival’ Acquired by Monterey Media
Monterey Media acquired the distribution rights...
Directed by Linda Yellen, the film follows Nick Twain (Hopper), a failing Hollywood producer whose latest movie has been rejected by every film festival in the world except for one. When an obscure festival is the last hope for Twain and his disaster of a movie, he does anything to get his picture distributed, including manipulating his dysfunctional cast into attending. Jacqueline Bisset, Chris Kattan, JoBeth Williams and Leelee Sobieski co-star.
Read More: Dennis Hopper’s Swan Song ‘The Last Film Festival’ Acquired by Monterey Media
Monterey Media acquired the distribution rights...
- 9/29/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Ya gotta love a woman who quotes Bette Davis lines. That's what Kate Hudson is doing in this week's installment of "Going to the Movies With." The Deepwater Horizon actress then reveals that one of her favorite movie lines is from Overboard—yes, the classic comedy starring her mom Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell! Hudson also fills us in on her favorite movie candy, the way she loves her popcorn and why she can't remember the last time she laughed during a movie... I Love My Popcorn With: "Salt and butter." My Favorite Movie Candy: "Milk Duds." My Favorite Animated Movie: "Inside Out and Up." The Last Movie That Made Me...
- 9/26/2016
- E! Online
Lesley-Ann Brandt is getting ready to heat things up again on Lucifer. The South African actress plays Maze on the Fox series, which returns tonight for its second season. We caught up with Brandt for the latest installment of E! News' "Going to the Movies With" series. I Love My Popcorn With: "Nothing! No extra butter. Just lightly salted." My Favorite Movie Candy: "I don't really do candy at the movies. Popcorn all the way." My Favorite Animated Movie: "Up." The Last Movie That Made Me Laugh Out Loud: "Bridesmaids." The Last Movie That Made Me Cry: "Room." My Favorite Line From a Movie: "'When...
- 9/19/2016
- E! Online
The belated third instalment in the franchise is released in cinemas this weekend. Here’s your chance to talk about it without risking the wrath of those who don’t yet know that the baby’s father is …
• This article contains spoilers
Bridget Jones’s Baby has been a long time cooking. The last movie – the ropy The Edge of Reason – was 12 years ago, and talk of a third has been around since around 2009. Gestation was bumpy. Paul Feig and then Peter Cattaneo were on board to direct, but the role went to Sharon Maguire, who did the first one. In 2013, Colin Firth braced fans for a “long wait”, and the following year Hugh Grant said he was out, based on his dislike for Helen Fielding and David (One Day) Nicholls’s script.
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• This article contains spoilers
Bridget Jones’s Baby has been a long time cooking. The last movie – the ropy The Edge of Reason – was 12 years ago, and talk of a third has been around since around 2009. Gestation was bumpy. Paul Feig and then Peter Cattaneo were on board to direct, but the role went to Sharon Maguire, who did the first one. In 2013, Colin Firth braced fans for a “long wait”, and the following year Hugh Grant said he was out, based on his dislike for Helen Fielding and David (One Day) Nicholls’s script.
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- 9/16/2016
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Above: French grande for El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky, Mexico, 1970). Artist: “Moebius,” aka Jean Giraud, aka “Gir” (1938-2012).You might expect something wilder from the fecund paired imaginations of Alejandro Jodorowsky and the artist known as Moebius. But this striking yet unusually restrained poster for El Topo (courtesy of Film/Art Gallery who provided a second, that’s-more-like-it Italian poster for the film that also made the top 20) was the most popular poster on Movie Poster of the Day over the last three months by a long stretch of desert.Collecting the posters with the most likes and reblogs yields a particularly attractive and typically diverse collection of art. There are Danish posters for French films, Polish posters for Italian films, Italian posters for Russian films and Russian posters for American films. Plenty of great artists are represented: from the Sternberg Brothers to John Alvin, from Andrzej Onegin-Dabrowski to Georges Kerfyser,...
- 9/2/2016
- MUBI
We can't wait to see Lauren Graham in Netflix's Gilmore Girls reunion in November. Until then, however, you can catch her in early October on the big screen in Middle School: The Worst Years of Life, the movie adaptation of James Patterson's book series of the same name. And right now, she's filling us in about her movie-going habits in the latest installment of "Going to the Movies With." I Love My Popcorn With: "Mike and Ike's mixed in." My Favorite Movie Candy: "Swedish fish." My Favorite Animated Movie: "101 Dalmatians—it's one of the very first films I saw." The Last Movie That Made Me Cry: "Whatever I watch...
- 8/31/2016
- E! Online
Prior to shooting her directorial debut, “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” which hits theaters Friday, Natalie Portman worked with roughly 40 directors as an actress, including Mike Nichols, Darren Aronofsky, Anthony Minghella and Woody Allen. The last movie she shot before moving behind the camera was Terrence Malick’s “Knight of Cups,” an experience that wound up helping her tremendously thanks to some handy advice from the legendary director, Portman said during a talk at the 92nd Street Y in New York Thursday moderated by Columbia University School of the Arts professor Annette Insdorf.
Read More: ‘Voyage of Time’ Trailer: Terrence Malick’s Ambitious IMAX Documentary Looks Stunning
“He kept saying, ‘Make films your way and don’t let anyone tell you that you need a three-act structure,'” Portman said. “‘You just make movies as you experience life.'” That advice helped Portman trust her instincts as a first-time...
Read More: ‘Voyage of Time’ Trailer: Terrence Malick’s Ambitious IMAX Documentary Looks Stunning
“He kept saying, ‘Make films your way and don’t let anyone tell you that you need a three-act structure,'” Portman said. “‘You just make movies as you experience life.'” That advice helped Portman trust her instincts as a first-time...
- 8/19/2016
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Right around the time Cop Out came out, writer/director Kevin Smith started getting very contentious with film critics. It seemed like he was taking some of the criticism personally, and he probably had a pretty good reason: many critics have been especially unkind to Smith over the years, and some crossed boundaries from simply attacking his movies to attacking him and his motivations.
Speaking for myself, I grew up with his movies and find myself liking the guy despite some of his worst tendencies. It probably helps that I didn't see Tusk and haven't seen Yoga Hosers, because I don't think those movies look particularly good or look like something I'd be interested in. I'm lucky enough at this job to not be forced to see and review every single movie that comes to theaters, so I simply won't watch movies that I'm 99% sure I'll hate — at least not when they come out theatrically.
Speaking for myself, I grew up with his movies and find myself liking the guy despite some of his worst tendencies. It probably helps that I didn't see Tusk and haven't seen Yoga Hosers, because I don't think those movies look particularly good or look like something I'd be interested in. I'm lucky enough at this job to not be forced to see and review every single movie that comes to theaters, so I simply won't watch movies that I'm 99% sure I'll hate — at least not when they come out theatrically.
- 8/1/2016
- by Ben Pearson
- GeekTyrant
Jim Carrey is set to star in director Eli Roth's upcoming film project Aleister Arcane. This is a horror film based on the 2004 Idw comic written by Steven Niles, and it is set up at Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment.
Aleister Arcane doesn't sound like your typical Eli Roth horror film. The guy has always been a one-trick pony as all of his films revolve around people being bloodily tortured. None of his films have really had any kind of substance, but that might actually change with this film. Here's the description from the book:
Aleister Green loves playing late night TV horror host Aleister Arcane in his hometown of Jackson, Ok...at least, until Jackson's establishment forces him off the air and into unhappy retirement, and an early grave. But Aleister has left a little gift behind — will Jackson ever be the same?
The story centers on a...
Aleister Arcane doesn't sound like your typical Eli Roth horror film. The guy has always been a one-trick pony as all of his films revolve around people being bloodily tortured. None of his films have really had any kind of substance, but that might actually change with this film. Here's the description from the book:
Aleister Green loves playing late night TV horror host Aleister Arcane in his hometown of Jackson, Ok...at least, until Jackson's establishment forces him off the air and into unhappy retirement, and an early grave. But Aleister has left a little gift behind — will Jackson ever be the same?
The story centers on a...
- 6/22/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Despite passing away six years ago, Dennis Hopper will soon be seen on the big screen one more time. Monterey Media has acquired distribution rights to Linda Yellen’s “The Last Film Festival,” which stars Hopper alongside Jacqueline Bisset, CHris Kattan, JoBeth Williams and Leelee Sobieski.
Read More: Want to See Dennis Hopper’s Final Movie? Here’s How (Exclusive Video!)
“The idea for ‘The Last Film Festival’ started with a laugh Dennis and I shared at the Sundance Film Festival,” Yellen says in a statement. “And that spirit of fun and spontaneity that is uniquely Dennis carried through the filming and onto the screen. He would be so pleased that what started as one laugh will now result in so many.” A comedy, the film tells of a failing producer who brings his calamitous movie to an obscure film festival in a last-ditch effort to make it work. The...
Read More: Want to See Dennis Hopper’s Final Movie? Here’s How (Exclusive Video!)
“The idea for ‘The Last Film Festival’ started with a laugh Dennis and I shared at the Sundance Film Festival,” Yellen says in a statement. “And that spirit of fun and spontaneity that is uniquely Dennis carried through the filming and onto the screen. He would be so pleased that what started as one laugh will now result in so many.” A comedy, the film tells of a failing producer who brings his calamitous movie to an obscure film festival in a last-ditch effort to make it work. The...
- 6/21/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
Forty-five years may have passed since Kris Kristofferson first made his brief silver-screen debut singing "Me & Bobby McGee" in Dennis Hopper’s tumultuous anti-Western, The Last Movie, but miraculously, Kristofferson is still gracing on-screen frontier towns with his cowboy wisdom and Western soul. Most recently, he can be found bartending in the frontier town of Timothy Woodward Jr.’s Traded, which hit theaters and VOD last Friday. Gone are the days when Kristofferson was helming vigilante roles such as the sharp-shooting Billy The Kid, but they are far from forgotten. In Traded, Kristofferson plays Billy, a hardened barkeep with a strict moral compass, living in Dodge City in the 1800s. When a stranger comes to town in search of his daughter, Billy is at first guarded,...
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- 6/13/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan's latest film Sarbjit released a fortnight ago and has garnered a good position at the box office. Based on Sarabjit Singh's life and directed by Omung Kumar, the biopic has received mixed response from the audiences, media and industry due but has been loved for the powerful performances and hard-hitting story line. The film was also declared tax free in Uttar Pradesh, India. After holding a screening at Cannes Film Festival 2016 and releasing it in India, the makers have received a chance to screen their film for the Tihar Jail inmates. According to an insider, the prisoners of Tihar Jail will be entitled to watch a film after a gap of 5 years. The last movie seen by them was in 2011. The movie will have 4 screenings at a stretch of four days with multiple timings. The biopic showcases the struggle of the innocent Indian farmer Sarbjit Singh,...
- 6/6/2016
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
The long-running Friday the 13th horror franchise will continue with a new movie currently in development at Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes production company. The last movie in the franchise came out in 2009, and I thought it was a piece of shit. I’m a huge fan of this franchise, it’s just gone completely downhill over the years, and Platinum Dunes taking over didn't do it any favors.
It’s been six months since we last heard any news on this film production, and that was when it was announced that Aaron Guzikowski was hired to write it. Prior to that, there were reports of it being a 3D film, a found footage movie, then the found footage idea was dropped, and there was even talk of a TV series at The CW.
Now, thanks to The Reel Word, we have a new update on the film, and they...
It’s been six months since we last heard any news on this film production, and that was when it was announced that Aaron Guzikowski was hired to write it. Prior to that, there were reports of it being a 3D film, a found footage movie, then the found footage idea was dropped, and there was even talk of a TV series at The CW.
Now, thanks to The Reel Word, we have a new update on the film, and they...
- 6/1/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost twenty years since Warren Beatty has directed a film. The last film he directed was Bulworth back in 1998. The last movie he starred in, though was Town & Country, which was released in 2001.
This November, Beatty will release his latest film project, Rules Don’t Apply, which he directed and stars in. He plays Howard Hughes in the film, and thanks to EW we have our first look at him in the role along with his co-stars Alden Ehrenreich and Lily Collins. We also have some new details regarding the story:
This is a story about a young man (Ehrenreich) and a young woman (Collins) who come to Hollywood, both of whom are affected by American Protestant, American Puritan morality on the brink of the sexual revolution and the rise of feminism that was to take place in the early ’60s.
This November, Beatty will release his latest film project, Rules Don’t Apply, which he directed and stars in. He plays Howard Hughes in the film, and thanks to EW we have our first look at him in the role along with his co-stars Alden Ehrenreich and Lily Collins. We also have some new details regarding the story:
This is a story about a young man (Ehrenreich) and a young woman (Collins) who come to Hollywood, both of whom are affected by American Protestant, American Puritan morality on the brink of the sexual revolution and the rise of feminism that was to take place in the early ’60s.
- 5/19/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
20th Century Fox are taking a big gamble with X-Men: Apocalypse. The last movie exceeded expectations at the box office, but if Bryan Singer's attempt to balance epic action with the introduction of a major new villain, several younger versions of familiar characters, and those who are returning from the First Class era fails, this movie could very well end up being more like The Last Stand than Days of Future Past! With any luck though, that won't be the case, and the new poster below certainly promises big things to come from the movie as Apocalypse and his Four Horsemen loom. Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshiped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel’s X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as...
- 5/4/2016
- ComicBookMovie.com
Herzog: Ecstatic Truths, a retrospective dedicated to Werner Herzog's documentary work, will be running on Mubi in the United States from March 31 - May 20, 2016. It will be followed by Herzog: Ecstatic Fictions, devoted to the director's fictional features.“The collapse of the stellar universe will occur – like creation – in grandiose splendor." In white letters sharply defined against a black screen, Blaise Pascal’s famous quote fittingly opens Lessons of Darkness (1992), Werner Herzog’s spectacular documentary about ecological disaster and the Gulf War. I say fittingly because the quote is fake (it was fabricated by Herzog to direct his audience to engage on a very “high level” before the movie even properly begins) and because Lessons of Darkness, for all its profundity, isn’t exactly a true documentary, either. It is, however, exemplary of Herzog's nonfiction style.Werner Herzog’s fame has been focused on his feature-length fiction films since...
- 3/31/2016
- by Ben Simington
- MUBI
Decades before Shia LeBeouf transformed from blockbuster actor into head-scratching performance-art weirdo and Joaquin Phoenix grew a beard for a mockumentary about his career as a rapper, Dennis Hopper explored his own mythos in a unique documentary that is now getting a new life.
Fresh off the breakout success of his 1969 directorial debut Easy Rider, the filmmaker attempted to repeat the feat with The Last Movie – a picture about a film crew member who stays in a Peruvian village after a shoot and attempts to prevent locals from reenacting the movie's dangerous stunts.
Fresh off the breakout success of his 1969 directorial debut Easy Rider, the filmmaker attempted to repeat the feat with The Last Movie – a picture about a film crew member who stays in a Peruvian village after a shoot and attempts to prevent locals from reenacting the movie's dangerous stunts.
- 3/29/2016
- Rollingstone.com
It’s easy to map out the Dennis Hopper trajectory: mid-50’s/ -60’s classical Hollywood bit player to ’70s weirdo maverick to ’90s Hollywood-blockbuster villain — or even, in more succinct terms, hippie to Bush-voting Republican. Yet even if a morphing figure, there is a tendency to zero in on the brief iconoclast period: the counter-culture icon who, for one shining moment, had it all, only to be able to say — or rather to quote his most famous film — “We blew it.”
To draw another vital name from the long line of American cinema’s Icarus figures, as well as a friend and collaborator of Hopper’s, one can look no further than Nicholas Ray, a recent biography of whom attributed the subtitle “The Glorious Failure of An American Filmmaker.” This could serve as a one-line synopsis for The American Dreamer, a behind-the-scenes look at Hopper’s critical and commercial bellyflop of The Last Movie,...
To draw another vital name from the long line of American cinema’s Icarus figures, as well as a friend and collaborator of Hopper’s, one can look no further than Nicholas Ray, a recent biography of whom attributed the subtitle “The Glorious Failure of An American Filmmaker.” This could serve as a one-line synopsis for The American Dreamer, a behind-the-scenes look at Hopper’s critical and commercial bellyflop of The Last Movie,...
- 3/29/2016
- by Ethan Vestby
- The Film Stage
Since any New York cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Metrograph
Frederick Wiseman‘s High School begins a week-long run.
“Welcome to Metrograph: A to Z” offers multiple titles this weekend, including Assayas‘ Boarding Gate, The Beguiled, and Nicolas Roeg‘s Bad Timing.
A 35mm print of Carol screens on Saturday night.
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne star in My Favorite Wife, playing this Sunday.
Museum...
Metrograph
Frederick Wiseman‘s High School begins a week-long run.
“Welcome to Metrograph: A to Z” offers multiple titles this weekend, including Assayas‘ Boarding Gate, The Beguiled, and Nicolas Roeg‘s Bad Timing.
A 35mm print of Carol screens on Saturday night.
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne star in My Favorite Wife, playing this Sunday.
Museum...
- 3/25/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Steven Yeun, the actor who plays Glenn on The Walking Dead, has landed the lead role in an action movie called Mayhem. He will be joined by Samara Weaving (The Babysitter) in the film. The is a big deal for Yeun because this is his first big leading movie role!
According to Variety, the film tells the story of “a virus that infects a corporate law office on the day attorney Derek Saunders (Yeun) is framed by a co-worker and wrongfully fired. The infection is capable of making people act out their wildest impulses. Trapped in the quarantined building, our hero is forced to savagely fight tooth and nail for not only his job but his life.”
The movie will be directed by Joe Lynch (Knights of Badassdom) from a script written by Matias Caruso. The film project is being produced by Circle of Confusion production company, who also produces The Walking Dead,...
According to Variety, the film tells the story of “a virus that infects a corporate law office on the day attorney Derek Saunders (Yeun) is framed by a co-worker and wrongfully fired. The infection is capable of making people act out their wildest impulses. Trapped in the quarantined building, our hero is forced to savagely fight tooth and nail for not only his job but his life.”
The movie will be directed by Joe Lynch (Knights of Badassdom) from a script written by Matias Caruso. The film project is being produced by Circle of Confusion production company, who also produces The Walking Dead,...
- 3/17/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
All this month, Mubi is presenting the exclusive worldwide online debut of L.M. Kit Carson and Lawrence Schiller’s 1971 documentary The American Dreamer, a fascinating and revelatory portrait of Dennis Hopper during the making of his legendary folly The Last Movie.For the film’s theatrical screenings at the Alamo Drafthouse in San Francisco and Austin, Mondo creative director Jay Shaw designed a new poster for the film:When we were asked to create a poster for The American Dreamer I was instantly overwhelmed. I’ve seen the film several times and absolutely love it. It’s a candid and endearing portrait of Dennis Hopper’s maniacal creative process. Lawrence Schiller, the film’s [co-] director and acclaimed photojournalist, sent a collection of photographs he’d taken during production back in 1971. When I saw these wonderful photos I realized there was nothing we’d be able to illustrate that would capture the...
- 2/19/2016
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Mubi is exclusively presenting the global online premiere of L.M. Kit Carson and Lawrence Schiller's cult documentary The American Dreamer, starring Dennis Hopper. Shot during the drug-and-orgy fueled making of The Last Movie, the legendary follow-up to Hopper's debut movie Easy Rider, Hopper stars as himself: a new kind of Hollywood—and American—icon. The American Dreamer is playing on Mubi through March 12, 2016. For more about the film, read Mike Opal's exploration on the Notebook.
- 2/12/2016
- by Notebook
- MUBI
L.M. Kit Carson and Lawrence Schiller's The American Dreamer (1971) is exclusively playing on Mubi through March 12, 2016.Photo by Lawrence SchillerWith a budget of $1 million, 1971's The Last Movie is the cheapest film ever to be considered a major folly. Tugging on his beard and watching a rough cut, Dennis Hopper prepares for his new project's inevitable critical disemboweling. He knows, after all, that among many delirious and noxious (though often brilliant) self-referential shenanigans it features a gigantic breast ejaculating milk onto Hopper's own receptive face. With self-aggrandizing irony (or is that ironic self-aggrandizement?), Hopper aspires to Orson Welles's career trajectory: "I can become Orson Welles, poor bastard." He declares his debut, 1969's Easy Rider, his Citizen Kane and The Last Movie his The Magnificent Ambersons. Nevertheless, the response to The Last Movie scared him away from directing for nearly a decade, rather than duplicating Welles's indomitable retreat to self-,...
- 2/11/2016
- by Mike Opal
- MUBI
Dennis Hopper’s fleeting success with Easy Rider in the late sixties famously came undone with his 1971 follow-up, The Last Movie. A critical and commercial failure, the rambling, chaotic nature on screen mirrored that of the behind-the-scenes production. Into the fray came directors Lawrence Schiller and L.M. Kit Carson, who captured an unbalanced and tormented
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- 2/5/2016
- by Adam Lowes
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Fuzzy 70s doc on Dennis Hopper tries to be countercultural but the weirdest thing on show is his gun obsession. A decent footnote to Us new wave cinema
In 1971, Dennis Hopper was attempting to complete his experimental film The Last Movie, which the studios were hoping (vainly) would be a zeitgeist moneyspinner to rival Easy Rider. At the same time, Hopper was submitting to the inspection of documentary makers Lm Kit Carson and Lawrence Schiller; the result was this strange, downbeat study of Hopper on location and in his studio. The film was lost for many years, but now rereleased. It shows Hopper as a withdrawn, distrait figure, fretting over the editing suite and worrying about what he considers to be his career’s resemblance to Orson Welles’s. He’s not exactly the wild man of legend, and not quite, I suspect, the wild man the film-makers were hoping to get on film.
In 1971, Dennis Hopper was attempting to complete his experimental film The Last Movie, which the studios were hoping (vainly) would be a zeitgeist moneyspinner to rival Easy Rider. At the same time, Hopper was submitting to the inspection of documentary makers Lm Kit Carson and Lawrence Schiller; the result was this strange, downbeat study of Hopper on location and in his studio. The film was lost for many years, but now rereleased. It shows Hopper as a withdrawn, distrait figure, fretting over the editing suite and worrying about what he considers to be his career’s resemblance to Orson Welles’s. He’s not exactly the wild man of legend, and not quite, I suspect, the wild man the film-makers were hoping to get on film.
- 2/4/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
1971’s The Last Movie was Dennis Hopper’s follow-up to the era-defining Easy Rider. It was also famously something of a grand folly for the artist, whose career went into a near-decade tailspin following the film’s critical and commercial failure. Shot during The Last Movie’s protracted post-production period and subsequently screened as a companion piece alongside
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- 2/4/2016
- by Adam Lowes
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
There are few Hollywood icons that are both as magnetic and enigmatic as the late, great Dennis Hopper. And while there are plenty of ways for you to dive into the work of the actor, director, and artist, a newly rediscovered documentary has arrived that offers a window into one of the most fascinating periods of Hopper's life. Read More: The 10 Best Dennis Hopper Performances Directed by Lawrence Schiller and L.M. Kit Carson, "The American Friend" drops in on Hopper as he assembles his infamous "The Last Movie," a film which found Hopper battling a troubled production and his own demons in trying to complete it. The documentary is a look at Hopper during one of the most curious periods of life, and largely unseen for years, "The American Dream" is now going to be much more widely available. “Journeying to New Mexico with Kit to make 'The American Dreamer...
- 1/25/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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