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Katherine Connell Revisits The American Friend
Among many unusual moments in Wim Wenders’s The American Companion is one short scene in which art framer Jonathan Zimmermann (Bruno Ganz) delicately picks up a piece of gold leaf and drapes it over the edge of a knife. The gossamer light sheet shivers in the air and glides down onto his open palm, before fluttering in place on the skin. Superfluous of plot, this move is insignificant and defies reason. On the other hand, this instance of random sensual exploration feels essential to a film in which glimpses of touch—private or shared—indicate a desire to brush up against something intense and undiluted.
Potent yearning is familiar ground for Patricia Highsmith’s iconic bisexual con man/murderer Tom Ripley (here played by Dennis Hopper). Though I was initially intrigued by The American Friend as an adaptation of Highsmith’s novel Ripley’s Game, I didn’t anticipate loving the film. I was disenchanted by my doctorate and in the throes of an independent study on adaptation and transgression (one that stretched i
&#;An incredible assortment of freaks&#;: The making of Dennis Hopper&#;s The Last Movie
With the film finally greenlit, Hopper travelled to Peru in late ’69 to start pre-production. While in Lima, he was interviewed by a reporter from La Prensa, who asked him about marijuana and homosexuality. “Taking a prolonged reflective pull on an odd-looking cigarette,” wrote Brad Darrach in an on-set report for Life magazine, “Dennis said he thought everybody should ‘do his thing’ and then allowed that he himself had lived with a lesbian and found it ‘groovy’…Within 24 hours the government denounced the article and issued a decree repealing freedom of the press.”
The rest of the cast and crew reached town in January, and took over the Hotel Cusco; “an extremely elegant Victorian age hotel,” remembers Henry Jaglom. Coke was so plentiful in the region that, according to Toni Basil, who played Rose in The Last Movie’s film-within-a-film, they served “coca tea in the hotel. Just like little teabags full of coca tea that you order in the restaurant.”
Darrach claimed that within hours of the cast
Rebellion and Cataclysm: Dennis Hopper’s Out of the Blue ()
By Christopher Sharrett.
Hopper’s is a surprisingly radical statement for a filmmaker known for his very inconsistent political thinking.&#;
What to say about Dennis Hopper? In his evening he could be a pain in the neck, publicly brandishing his neuroses, failures, and addictions – in the new Severin edition of Out of the Blue, Brian Cox remarks in conversation (not very advisedly) that Hopper might have been a “tortured artist.” Posturing might have indeed been a major characteristic of this man. Yet Hopper strode across the postwar youth counterculture like few others. He was a confidant to legendary James Dean, acting in two of the three films starring the perhaps equally self-destructive star: Rebel Without a Cause and Giant. After appearing on TV shows like The Rifleman, and getting into trouble with mainstream Hollywood figures verb Henry Hathaway, he made a film that became an emblem of Sixties rebellion, Easy Rider. His friend Peter Fonda made people ready for fresh motorcycle outlaw films with Roger C
Dennis Hopper's 8-day marriage and rumours wife left him over 'unnatural sex demands'
Dennis Hopper's marriage to his second wife Michelle Phillips lasted just eight days and there's been long-running rumours about the reasons why she dumped him
Dennis Hopper's marriage to his second wife Michelle Phillips lasted just eight days amid rumours she dumped him over his "unnatural sex demands".
The actor, who died in aged 74, was enjoying his first real taste of accurate Hollywood stardom following the release of classic Simple Rider when he flew to Peru to film his next project.
He married his second wife Michelle on 31 October and they divorced exactly 50 years ago this weekend - on 8 November that year.
The shoot for The Last Movie took place in and he worked with The Mamas and the Papas singer Michelle, who had a small role in the film.
Hopper was directing and editing the film himself, and there were rumours the shoot was marred by wild partying.
The movie star Hopper later admitting he was deep in the throws of rampa