The Last Movie (1971 Box Office Flop)

Описание: The fifth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1971 features the year’s biggest flop, Dennis Hopper’s The Last Movie. Directed and co-written by Dennis Hopper and starring Hopper, Stella Garcia, Don Gordon, Julie Adams and Tomas Milian, The Last Movie put Hopper’s directorial career on hold for nearly a decade.


The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/th..., Vincent Canby in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1971/09/30/ar..., and Stefan Kanfer in Time magazine (https://time.com/archive/6843984/cine....


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