Dennis Hopper
Dennis HOPPER (1936-2010, USA) was an actor and filmmaker. He studied acting at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and the Actors Studio in New York. His first two film roles were in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). After struggling for acting work for several years, his career was revived with the help of John Wayne, who hired him to act in The Sons of Katie Elder (1965). He made his directorial debut with Easy Rider (1969), which he wrote together with Peter Fonda and Terry Southern. The film was nominated for the Palme d’Or and named Best First Work at Cannes, and became an important work in the New Hollywood movement. He directed and co-wrote The Last Movie in 1971, which went through a long and troubled post-production process, and he didn’t direct again until Out of the Blue (1980). The film premiered at Cannes and received a Palme d’Or nomination. In 1991, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at Stockholm Film Festival and in 2003, he received a Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award in San Sebastián. He directed his final feature film Chasers in 1994, and his final film, the short Pashmy Dream, in 2008. He was given a star on the Walk of Fame in 2010, just two months before his death.
Filmography
Easy Rider (1969), The Last Movie (1971), Out of the Blue (1980), Colors (1988), Catchfire (1990), The Hot Spot (1990), Chasers (1994), Homeless (2000, short), Pashmy Dream (2008, short)
More info: Wikipedia, Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper at IFFR
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True romance
Love, drugs and violence. Based on a screenplay by Quentin ‘Reservoir Dogs’ Tarantino.
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Jesus’ Son
Sensitive and unpolished film about the drugs subculture in the (nineteen) seventies. A young and sensitive nurse in an old-people’s home also turns o
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Not Quite Hollywood
Ultrafast, jampacked, intelligent documentary about Ozploitation, the term for the rise of a series of Australian genre films in the 1970s and 1980s t
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Signals: Regained
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The Last Movie
Hallucinogenic film about a Hollywood crew making a Western that goes off the rails in Peru. With Samuel Fuller and Dennis Hopper.
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The Blackout
Film star in Miami tries to escape fans and paparazzi, and sinks into alcohol and drugs, leading to lugubrious black-out. Dark Ferrara theme (The Bad
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