A hypnotic New Hollywood colossus movie that beat its time, only to be lost for a few decades. Russian premiere of the restored copy as part of the retrospective programme of the Festival of Films Regained.
The Last Movie
- Date:
- 22 Sep 2025,
19:30–21:20
- Age restrictions
- 18+
1971, Dennis Hopper
United States
108 minutes, English with Russian subtitles
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Stella Garcia, Don Gordon, Peter Fonda
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Somewhere in the Peruvian jungle, a film crew is finishing shooting a western. It’s time to leave, but a stuntman, who has fallen in love with a local sex worker, stays. After a few days, he discovers that the Quechua Indians are now acting out the movie shoots—with sticks instead of cameras and very real violence.
Shot form The Last Movie, 1971
A critical, financial, personal, and possibly even spiritual catastrophe that with each passing day feels more like a masterpiece, Dennis Hopper’s The Last Movie is one of the great lost films of the 1970s.
— Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice
After the success of Easy Rider, Universal Studios gave Dennis Hopper carte blanche for a new project. He made a movie as impenetrable as mesmerizing, breaking all the conventions of cinema. A couple of weeks after the release, Universal put the picture on the shelf, and Hopper turned into a recluse for ten years. It is only now that his magnum opus can be watched on the big screen.
