Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now, often considered one of the greatest movies ever made, is witnessing a sudden spike on ...

While Hopper was still using drugs, he played a drug-addled photojournalist in "Apocalypse Now." Dennis Hopper died in 2010 of prostate cancer at the age of 74. We're going to hear excerpts of two ...

Actor and filmmaker Dennis Hopper, best known for such films as Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now and Blue Velvet, died May 29, seven months after his manager announced that he had been diagnosed with ...

Hopper, who died in 2010, became famous for the 1969 hippie biker road trip movie, Easy Rider. "There was a lot of smoking grass on that picture. ... I didn’t do it. But I drank," he said in 1990.

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. We're going to continue our series Classic Films and Movie Icons with interviews from our archive with Dennis Hopper and Isabella Rossellini, two stars of the ...