The Last Movie / Backtrack

THE LAST MOVIE, 1971, Easy Rider Productions, 108 min. Dennis Hopper followed up his EASY RIDER triumph directing this hallucinatory meditation on Hollywood, economic exploitation and pop music. Hopper plays a stuntman working on a film on which one of the lead actors has been killed in a stunt accident. When the shoot is over, Hopper remains in Peru and becomes involved in an imaginary movie being shot by local villagers. This premise inspires an audacious series of digressions in which Hopper heads off in search of gold in the mountains and romances a Peruvian woman, with astonishing experimental editing.

BACKTRACK (aka CATCH FIRE), 1990, Easy Rider Productions, 98 min. Dir. Dennis Hopper. Artist Ann Benton (Jodie Foster) witnesses a mob hit and goes on the run after spotting one of the gangsters at the police station. Mob assassin Dennis Hopper is sent after her, but he becomes more and more fascinated by his prey as he learns more about her life and art.