8:45 p.m.	The Last Movie Dennis Hopper (U.S., 1971)

Riding the wild success of Easy Rider, Dennis Hopper next galloped to the Peruvian Andes to horse around with the myth of the West. The Last Movie is really three movies corralled into one. A bundle of untamed gestures, Hopper plays Kansas, a stuntman working on a Billy the Kid Western directed by Sam Fuller. When the film wraps, Hopper stays behind, hooking up with Maria (Stella Garcia), a local prostitute. Fascinated by the filming process, the Peruvian natives begin simulating their own production, using mock equipment and the abandoned set. Hopper is cast in the lead, not realizing that their ritualized staging requires real bloodletting. Here, The Last Movie begins to evaporate in the thin Andean air. Using self-reflexive tropes like walk-ons by crew members, inserts such as “Scene Missing,” and actors going out of character, Hopper suggests that his inevitable sacrifice is just more images in a conspicuous colonial con. No anti–John Ford, Hopper is more Godard-with-chaps.

—Steve Seid

• Written by Stewart Stern, from an idea by Stern and Hopper. Photographed by Laszlo Kovacs. With Dennis Hopper, Stella Garcia, Samuel Fuller, Peter Fonda. (108 mins, Color, 35mm, From Academy Film Archive, permission Dennis Hopper)