Dennis Hopper The Decisive Moments

The inevitable fat cigar between his fingers the American actor director and fine artist Dennis Hopper 1936 selfmockingly looks back on his chequered life and career at the request of Dutch director photographer and fine artist Thom Hoffman The latter sifted through the turbulent life story of Hopper who is primarily known from the cult film Easy Rider 1969 Hopper went through as many high as low points In conveniently arranged chapters Hoffman shows the decisive moments in Hoppers life and asks colleagues like Wim Wenders David Lynch Sean Penn and Julian Schnabel to comment on them The documentary is richly illustrated with film excerpts photos newspaper articles and anecdotes The main reason for this film was the retrospective of Dennis Hoppers art work in the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum in 2001