The Last Movie

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Dennis Hopper’s notorious follow-up to Easy Rider is a $1 million avant-garde freakout, an unhinged product of the counterculture bankrolled by a major Hollywood studio, shot on location in South America for much of 1970. The iconoclastic filmmaker stars as Kansas, a stuntman who abandons his latest Peruvian production following an on-set death and shacks up with a local sex worker (Stella Garcia). Believing he has found paradise, Kansas makes the startling discovery that life is far more like the movies than it seems. Writing for the film journal Evergreenabout his visit to the set, L.M. Kit Carson called it “the riskiest movie I’ve been around… [Hopper is] driving spikes into ordinary moments to crack them, and get inside them to the dangerous, real, uncontrolled meat.”