THE LAST MOVIE (Dennis Hopper, 1971) coming from Arbelos in 2018!

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According to The Hollywood Reporter, start-up Arbelos are restoring and releasing Dennis Hopper's tough-to-see THE LAST MOVIE (1971):

Arbelos, a new boutique distributor focusing on the release of both new and restored classic art house titles, officially launched at this year's Toronto Film Festival. The company's first release will be a 4K restoration of Dennis Hopper's 1971 cult classic The Last Movie, which will get a new theatrical bow, and its first ever Blu-ray and digital streaming release, via Arbelos in 2018.

Michael Brooke's plot synopsis, from IMDB:

A film shoot in Peru goes badly wrong when an actor is killed in a stunt, and the unit wrangler, Kansas, decides to give up film-making and stay on in the village, shacking up with local prostitute Maria. But his dreams of an unspoiled existence are interrupted when the local priest asks him to help stop the villagers killing each other by re-enacting scenes from the film for real because they don't understand movie fakery...

More on Arbelos:

The team behind Arbelos —co-founders David Marriott, Dennis Bartok, Craig Rogers and Ei Toshinari — previously collaborated together on Cineliscious Pics, the distribution arm of L.A. digital restoration studio Cinelicious and the new company's initial slate will include Cinelicious Pics film library of 14 feature films, including the recent 4K restoration of Toshio Matsumoto’s transgender classic Funeral Parade of Roses, Tim Sutton’s Dark Night and the 4K restoration of Eiichi Yamamoto’s underground Anime Belladonna of Sadness."

Full article here:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...-movie-1036141

The Last Movie (1971) Trailer - Color / 1:37 mins - YouTube