Apocalypse Now was being given test screenings at Cannes, introduced (in two versions) by Francis Ford Coppola. I went to both.
At the same time, hoping to regain some recognition, Dennis Hopper was trying to hawk his post-Easy Rider movie, The Last Movie. He hadn't yet been "re-discovered" and legitimized. He seemed desperate. Not many people came to the screening room to see his experimental narrative movie and he boasted that it had won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival years before, but had bombed commercially. He was trying to get a new re-distribution deal. It wasn't working. I was just a critic. I tried to listen to him and express understanding for his lack of favor in Hollywood.
Apocalypse Now changed that for him, but The Last Movie continues to be an obscure oddity. It still isn't on DVD. He made it back into the limelight. He does television commercials.
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