In the second installment of our two-part retrospective of his life and career—and in what would be his final interview—the legendary actor opens up about the making of Easy Rider, his tangles with Marlon Brando on Apocalypse Now, his battle with drugs, his rebirth with Blue Velvet, and the imperfect, incomparable, revolutionary trails he blazed.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/01/10

When Dennis Hopper died in late May, American culture lost one of its great iconoclasts: an actor, filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist whose legendary predilections for both creative ground-breaking and epic hell-raising influenced the careers of multiple generations of budding thespians as much as they threatened to derail his own. Shortly before his death, Hopper sat for what would be his final interview.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/01/10

When Dennis Hopper died in late May, American culture lost one of its great iconoclasts: an actor, filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist whose legendary predilections for both creative ground-breaking and epic hell-raising influenced the careers of multiple generations of budding thespians as much as they threatened to derail his own. Shortly before his death, Hopper sat for what would be his final interview.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 06/17/10

Is there really anything to say about this master filmmaker which could be more persuasive than Godard's famous proclamation that "The cinema is Nicholas Ray?"  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 07/22/09