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The Hollywood News (blog)
April 16, 2018
It stars John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, and Bob Hoskins. It came with a budget of $42 million and grossed just $20.9 million. Max Payne Released on 17 October 2008. Max Payne is an action star in the video game, and he carries that menacing persona into New York City where he is a police detectiveÃâà...
Metro
April 16, 2018
... happy-go-lucky world of Super Mario Bros and turning into a goofy, cyberpunk action-comedy that doesn't work on any level. It ruined Bob Hoskins as a major star, and the late actor considered it one of the great regrets of his life (a sentiment echoed by co-stars John Leguizamo, and Dennis Hopper).
Highsnobiety
April 16, 2018
... films – before and after Punch Drunk Love – like Tom Cruise and Daniel Day-Lewis. The director clearly saw something in Sandler, as did another notable film critic, Roger Ebert, who predicted a future for Sandler in “Dennis Hopper roles” based on his ability to emote “darkness, power, and obsession.”Ãâà...
The Good Men Project (blog)
April 14, 2018
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Bedford + Bowery
April 14, 2018
... extraordinary performance from Jeffrey Wright, as well as memorable turns from a truly remarkable lineup of performers, including Gary Oldman, Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Hopper, Courtney Love, Parker Posey, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Walken, and David Bowie, who uncannily channels Andy Warhol.
Ambrosia For Heads
April 14, 2018
Thirty years ago, Ice-T released “Colors” as a companion to Dennis Hopper's film of the same name. Both the song (which climbed up the Top 100) and the movie starring Sean Penn and featuring early appearances by Don Cheadle, Damon Wayans, and Leon were timepieces of 1980s gang culture.
Ambrosia For Heads
April 14, 2018
Thirty years ago, Ice-T released “Colors” as a companion to Dennis Hopper's film of the same name. Both the song (which climbed up the Top 100) and the movie starring Sean Penn and featuring early appearances by Don Cheadle, Damon Wayans, and Leon were timepieces of 1980s gang culture.
U.S. News & World Report
April 14, 2018
That's Melancon's Cafe where scenes from the cult classic movie "Easy Rider," starring Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson, were filmed in 1968. The restaurant was demolished many years ago, now all that remains is a marker embedded in the sidewalk in front of where the restaurant used toÃâà...
TVOvermind
April 14, 2018
Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda were either drunk or stoned for a lot of the film. The joints you see them smoking are very real even if the LSD and the cocaine weren't. According to Jack Nicholson they must have smoked over 100 joints over the course of the film. 9. Hopper was intent on getting JackÃâà...
Tampabay.com (blog)
April 13, 2018
2. Penn himself did some time in 1987 – 33 days in jail – for hitting an extra on the set who was taking pics of the actor without his permission. 3. The original script for Colors had the movie set in Chicago and was focused more on drug dealing. Director Dennis Hopper ordered a rewrite to place the story inÃâà...
Omaha World-Herald
April 12, 2018
“Texas Chainsaw Massacre II”. (Amazon Prime). Speaking of sequels, Tobe Hooper's 1986 follow-up to his best film is one of the stranger sequels ever made. It casts Dennis Hopper as a chainsaw-wielding avenger and only gets weirder from there.
Film School Rejects
April 9, 2018
Namely, by Alain Delon in Purple Noon (1960), Dennis Hopper in The American Friend (1977), Matt Damon in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), and John Malkovich in Ripley's Game (2002). Each portrayal of Tom Ripley has been vastly different. These four actors have little in common, and these are allÃâà...
lareviewofbooks
March 26, 2018
... was something of a Golden Age for the cinematic avant-garde, and the energy and urgency of the burgeoning underground is especially well represented in this collection by fascinating interviews with the likes of John Cassavetes, Dennis Hopper, William Klein, Marguerite Duras, and Jean-Luc Godard.
AV Club
March 26, 2018
Sure, lore tend to center around cast members Bob Hoskins and Dennis Hopper's extreme embarrassment at its very mention, as well as reports that the actors themselves were prone to slugging shots of whiskey in between takes. And it's all true: Cast member (and character actor royalty) Richard EdsonÃâà...
JOE
March 23, 2018
Gary Busey also stars, which should be reason enough to watch this all by itself. Speed - RTE One - 00:20. Die Hard-on-a-bus is maybe the best "Die Hard-on-a-(fill in the blank)" of the action subgenre, with genuinely great chemistry between Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, and Dennis Hopper havingÃâà...
The Guardian
March 22, 2018
Dennis Hopper as villain King Koopa, switched from the games' giant turtle to a businessman descended from dinosaurs. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo. This anecdote reveals a lot about the making of the Super Mario Bros movie, which has slipped into cinematic legend for all the wrong reasons.
Syfy Wire
March 21, 2018
... Milton Selzer had previously visited the Zone as an alien opposite Andy Devine in the comedic "Hocus Pocus and Frisby." Virginia Gregg portrayed Anne Francis' mother in "Jess-Belle" and also voiced Norma Bates in the original Psycho. Brooke Hayward was the ex-wife of TZ veteran Dennis Hopper.
The Times
March 14, 2018
There are 72 action-packed years to cover: the wanderlust that took the director from his native west Germany to America; movies such as Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire that established him as an arthouse heavyweight; the five wives; anecdotes about Dennis Hopper, Nick Cave, Annie Leibovitz andÃâà...
PRI
March 8, 2018
It was also the first modern, Native woman story produced in the United States. Romero was born into Hollywood, the daughter of an actress, Rita Rogers, who starred in Elvis Presley movies. At the age of 12, Dennis Hopper became Romero's legal guardian. Yet her story is more than a laundry list of movieÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
March 2, 2018
Released the same year as the Woodstock Festival, Peter Fonda's and Dennis Hopper's road movie encapsulates the hippy counterculture like no other work. While Jack Nicholson got a nomination for best supporting actor, the movie wasn't even included among the best picture candidates. AdmittedlyÃâà...
EW.com
March 1, 2018
That year, the Academy recognized Lynn Redgrave, Leslie Nielsen, Tony Curtis, Jill Clayburgh, Dennis Hopper, and publicist Ronni Chasen, but left out Haim, whose credits included The Lost Boys, Lucas, and License To Drive. Haim died on March 11, 2010 at the age of 38. “Together, our films madeÃâà...
lareviewofbooks
January 26, 2018
DENNIS HOPPER'S roller-coaster life and career was characterized by incredible successes followed by equally incredible failures — none more so than The Last Movie (1971), Hopper's ambitious directorial follow-up to the box-office smash Easy Rider (1969). That film's unexpected success transformedÃâà...
Albuquerque Journal
January 17, 2018
Whether it was as an actor, a director, a photographer, a fine artist or an art collector, he brought the very best to each medium. The documentary, “Along for the Ride,” will have its New Mexico premiere at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 18 at the KiMo Theatre, 423 W. Central. The screening is presented by theÃâà...
CBS News
November 3, 2017
He outlived James Dean, held his own against John Wayne, and with Jack Nicholson created the pinnacle of 1960s independent film, "Easy Rider." Dennis Hopper was a maverick, a multi-hyphenate of a most illustrious sort: actor-writer-director-photographer-carouser. Following "Easy Rider," he couldÃâà...
Variety
November 2, 2017
It's a little less famous that the era also began with a celebrated filmmaker's overreaching folly, one that shares more than a few traits with “Heaven's Gate”: Dennis Hopper's insanely grandiose, ravishing-at-times, narratively threadbare “The Last Movie” (1971), which didn't have to wait years to be hailed,Ãâà...
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