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Best of the fest: Easy Rider Dennis takes on zombies.


Dennis Hopper has been a film festival hit since he first roared on to the screen alongside Peter Fonda in Easy Rider.

He's been an award-winner at Cannes, Venice and San Sebastian and earlier this year he was back in Cannes for a sneak preview sneak preview
n.
A single public showing of a movie before its general release.

Noun 1. sneak preview - a preview to test audience reactions
 of some footage from his latest movie, Land Of The Dead, which will receive a Gala International Premiere at the Edinburgh Film Festival.

Hopper is not only one of the great Hollywood survivors, he's also a significant achiever. In a list of the 100 best films of the century, he featured in four big-screen classics... Giant, Rebel Without A Cause, Apocalypse Now and Easy Rider.

Land Of The Dead, which also stars Asia Argento, Simon Baker and John Leguizamo John Leguizamo (born July 22, 1964) is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated Colombian comedian, actor and producer. Biography
Early life
Leguizamo was born in Bogotá, Colombia.
, is his first collaboration with legendary horror director George A. Romero.

In the film, Hopper runs a gated community where the rich and privileged are under siege from zombie A computer that has been covertly taken over in order to perform some nefarious task. It is estimated that millions of PCs around the world have been compromised and, under the control of a third party, routinely transmit messages unbeknownst to the user.  hordes

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Publication:Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
Date:Jul 31, 2005
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