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MyNameCriterionForum wrote:Can we PLEASE get Last Movie on DVD now?

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Tom Hagen wrote:I prefer his Apocalypse performance most of all. RIP, mannnn. All is forgiven now, even his 2000 support of W.

Let's not be too hasty. 2004 as well ...

A shame but at least he was a part of so many amazing films. Beyond The Last Movie and Easy Rider I also liked many of the other films he directed - The Hot Spot especially, but I quite like Colors and the flawed Alan Smithee'd Catchfire even if they were somewhat more conventional genre pieces than the early stuff.

And we shouldn't forget that brilliant mid-70s international acting run of Mad Dog Morgan, The American Friend and Tracks. I often think of Tracks as a great companion film to The Last Detail.

I'm glad bigP mentioned Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. It's a flawed film, to say the least (and one which ran the 'chainsaw as phallic symbol' idea into the ground!), but Hopper really threw his all into the hysterical parody. I couldn't find the brilliantly off the wall wood chopping scene after Hopper gets his hands on the chainsaw for the first time anywhere on YouTube, but here's a montage of his final yelling sections!

I'm also a fan of The Osterman Weekend, and here Hopper actually seems to play against type as the more 'normal' of the group of friends! It's a seriously flawed film in many respects, especially in the use of video technology without a thought as to who is wielding the camera and editing all the footage together neatly when it should be being shown in a raw state (which becomes more of an issue when the film itself is about 'real' and 'fake' capturings of events, so you shouldn't also be having to factor in the filmmaker's lack of knowledge about how the technology works into the viewing as well!), and even exactly why some of this footage is being filmed (the opening murder, for example) in the first place! But it is a good example of a film where the performances really help to power the viewer over most, if not all, the plotholes and inconsistencies.

Tim Lucas posted a link to this video a few weeks back on Facebook...

Dennis Hopper: The Middle Word in Life

Scaperlli, one of the best hands of Italian cinema died in April the 28th ! Father in the shadow of the Commedia all'italiana with his script parnter Age. I've seen most of their filmography, that is stunnig, but sorry, aren't subtitled for English speakers.

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Re Dennis Hopper: I really have a soft spot for his portrayal in River's Edge, which is of course also worth seeing for, imho, Crispin Glover's best screen appearance ever.

jbeall wrote:

bigP wrote:As well as his iconic performance in Blue Velvet [...]

Heineken? Fuck that shit! PABST BLUE RIBBON!!!!!!

R.I.P.

You beat me to it - was going to do the same thing. R.I.P. Dennis.

Hopper's Out of the Blue should not be overlooked; it ranks among the best rock & roll films ever made, IMHO, comparable to something like Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains, though even more challenging and disturbing. I'd say that and Last Movie are his two directorial masterpieces.

Caligula wrote:Re Dennis Hopper: I really have a soft spot for his portrayal in River's Edge, which is of course also worth seeing for, imho, Crispin Glover's best screen appearance ever.

Glad I'm not the only one. Those two make that film this great Proto-Bully thing. In general that year as actor was probably his best.

It happens in threes....
First Coleman, then Hopper, now Louise Bourgeois

tavernier wrote:It happens in threes....
First Coleman, then Hopper, now Louise Bourgeois

You know, I never thought of those three as a threesome.

Now they are

William A. Fraker. No obituary yet, but it was just posted on American Cinematographer's Facebook page. Very sad.

Kwak Ji-gyun, director of 'Portrait of the Days of Youth' and 'Plum Blossom,' among others, by his own hand, May 25.

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:Joseph Strick

Great bringer of James Joyce to the screen...

Golden Girls Rue McClanahan.

dx23 wrote:Golden Girls Rue McClanahan.

RIP Blanche.

dx23 wrote:Golden Girls Rue McClanahan.

Wow, we've lost a Golden Girl every year since '08. Treasure Betty White while there's time.

A tribute to Dennis Hopper by Alex Cox.

Photographer Brian Duffy (also producer on Oh! What a Lovely War and Only When I Larf).

Experimental novelist David Markson. Author of the novel from which the Sinatra film Dirty Dingus Magee was adapted, one of my favorite writers, the namesake of my board handle.

RIP Richard Dunn - little Pep Pep.