Dennis Hopper

Hopper Whopper | 400 Shots of the Sixties

The Moment (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

" Dennis Hopper: Photographs 1961-1967 ," a new, brick-thick photo book from Taschen.

a pinball in a machine, rusty james

SibLINGSHOT ON THE BLEACHERS (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 adaptation of S.E. Hinton's " Rumblefish " - expanded in 1975 from her original short story first published in ' Nimrod: 1968 ', the University of Tulsa's literary journal - succeeded where its bigger budget sibling, " The Outsiders ", so obviously failed. Shot entirely in the monochrome of REM sleep, save for those few frames with superimposed colour...

Give us your X Factor theme night ideas

The Guardian - TV & Radio blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

We've had some shockers in this series – and we haven't even endured Wham night yet - so how would you reverse the trend? Has X Factor has become such an unstoppable juggernaut that it's now deliberately antagonising the public for fun? The signs have long been there - the relentless crash-bang editing, the unnecessary frequency of Westlife appearances, Simon Cowell's haircut – but this...

Roadtrip/no roadtrip.

The IFC Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

Nothing says 1969 like "Easy Rider," the bad-trip Altamont to the ebullient celebration of the next year's "Woodstock." While the hippies were partying down, Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson were discovering there was no place for them in America, either old or new. On the occasion of its 40th anniversary, Keith Phipps retraced the road trip taken by the gang. The week-long...

On the ‘Easy Rider’ Trail, 40 Years Later

World Hum (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009

Keith Phipps followed Wyatt and Billy’s path from Southern California to the Gulf Coast, and the first part of his resulting multi-day series for Slate ran yesterday. It looks to be a good one. Here’s a sample: More an elegy for a generation that never got where it wanted to go than a celebration of that generation’s superiority, it pits hopefulness against resignation and sets the...

"Gorilla Love-In"

Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009

On the 40th anniversary of Easy Rider (which I personally commemorated with a purchase of the recently released Bluray, which makes the film seem vibrant and highly attuned and freshly found), Slate's Keith Phipps went on a journey that followed Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper's original path, and has written an essay about the movie, its legacy, and how the places it visited have changed. LACMA's Michael...

Brock Lesnar Fighting for His Life?

Stars Are Blind (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009

Former WWE star and now current UFC Champ, Brock Lesnar is reportedly in a North Dakota hospital and not going well. Ultimate Fight President Dana White announced that Brock Lesnar is “not well and he’s not going to be getting well anytime soon. He’s in a hospital up in North Dakota somewhere right now,” [...] Related posts: Brock Lesnar Apology Dennis Hopper Diagnosed with...

No Subtitles Necessary, (2009, ***)

Movie City Indie (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009

James Chressanthis ' No Subtitles Necessary premieres Tuesday night on ITVS' "Independent Lens" series: it's an anecdote-rich documentary about lifelong friends, cinematographic greats Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond, from their youthful escape from Hungary in 1956 with footage of the Russian invasion of Budapest to the glory days of Hollywood in the 1960s and 1970s and into their mature...

New Casting For Gus Van Sant’s Next, Which is No Longer Called Restless

Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009

Gus Van Sant's next film, which was called Restless until recently, has been sounding very interesting. It already stars Mia Wasikowska in a "complex tale of a teenage boy and girl who share a preoccupation with mortality." The film may not currently have a title (Restless wasn't the best name for this movie, anyway) but it does have a lot of new cast members, a couple of which bear very...

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Casting Tidbits: Richard Dreyfuss, Julian McMahon & More

FirstShowing.net (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009

Casting Tidbits assemble! First up, THR reports that Gus Van Sant's now untitled drama (formerly known as Restless) will be gaining the next generation of young actors as Henry Hopper (son of Dennis Hopper) and Schuyler Fisk (daughter of Sissy Spacek) join actress Mia Wasikowska in this story about a teenage boy (Hopper) and girl (Wasikowska) who share a preoccupation with mortality. Fisk will play...

The full frame

The Age (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009

Dennis Hopper tells Philippa Hawker about crossing creative boundaries.

Hayden Panettiere Admitted to 'Harvard Medical School'

The Insider (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009

Hayden Panettiere is scrubbing in for her producing debut as co-executive producer of the CWs HMS, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show will follow a class of intelligent Harvard Medical School students. Appealing to a younger audience than Grey's Anatomy, the drama will have a similar feel to the hit ABC show. Hayden will step back in front of the lens for the film Alpha and Omega, scheduled...

15 Hilarious Japanese Commercials Starring Hollywood Actors

Film Junk (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009

The announcement that Quentin Tarantino recently starred in a Japanese Softbank commercial has been making headlines around the web this week, and I am still not quite sure why people are making such a big deal out of it. It's no surprise that QT is somewhat well-versed in Japanese culture and no surprise that he enjoys hamming it up for the camera either. More to the point, I don't think these goofy...

Taking Woodstock and cinema's love of trippy scenes | Anne Billson

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009

There are plenty of trippy movie scenes – but watching them sober makes you feel like the designated driver in a roomful of drunks Thirty-six years ago, I dropped a tab of LSD. It was OK, but I never felt the urge to do it again, and never thought much about it – until the other day, when I was watching Taking Woodstock. To the sound of Love's The Red Telephone, Ang Lee serves up an acid...

Crash - Episode 2.08 - Promo and Sneak Peek

SpoilerTV (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009

This week on Crash, Ben Cendars (Dennis Hopper) rebuilds his relationship with ex-wife Suzy Fields (Peggy Lipton) as he continues to seek clues regarding a murder. You can check out the new episode of Crash this Friday, November 13th on Starz at 10 p.m. E/P. Here’s a 30 second preview of the episode. Also, here’s a sneak peek at Dennis Hopper’s character with Peggy Lipton as they...