Dennis Hopper in Easy Rider.By Hap ErsteinI was in college when I first came under the influence of Dennis Hopper, going with my roommate and fellow counterculture rebel wannabe to see a movie called Easy Rider, which Hopper wrote, directed and appeared in.It was a call to all of us closet revolutionaries to leave our humdrum lives behind and hit the open road, … [Read more...]
The Best of 2008: Films
'Milk': Timely, and Hap's pick for No. 1 film of the year.By Hap Erstein After viewing some 300 movies last year, it all comes down to these: 1. Milk (dir. Gus Van Sant; w/ Sean Penn, James Franco, Josh Brolin) Beyond a biography of rising and eventually slain San Francisco politico Harvey Milk, this film tells a parallel tale of the rise of the gay right movement in … [Read more...]