Last Party 2000 (2001)

Filmed over the last six months of the 2000 Presidential election, Phillip Seymour Hoffman starts documenting the campaign at the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, but spends more time outside, in the street protests and police actions than in the orchestrated conventions. Hoffman shows an obvious distaste for money politics and the conservative right. He looks seedier and more disillusioned the campaign progresses. Eventually Hoffman seems most energized by the Ralph Nader campaign as an alternative to the nearly indistinguishable major parties. The high point of the film are the comments by Barney Frank who says that marches and demonstrations are largely a waste of time, and that the really effective political players such as the NRA and the AARP never bother with walk ins, sit-ins, shoot-ins or shuffles. In the interview with Jesse Jackson, Hoffman is too flustered to ask all of his questions.

The movie Last Party 2000, released in 2001, features 11 songs from artists like Stone Temple Pilots, Rage Against the Machine, Willie Nelson and Melissa Etheridge. What is your favorite song from Last Party 2000?

Songs from Last Party 2000

GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.

Interstate Love Song

Stone Temple Pilots

Bulls on Parade

Rage Against the Machine

WHISKEY RIVER

Willie Nelson

Truth of the Heart

Melissa Etheridge

Razzle Dazzle

If I Had $1000000

Barenaked Ladies

Big Empty

Stone Temple Pilots

Over Yonder (Jonathan's Song)

The Times They Are A'Changin'

Eddie Vedder

Once in a Lifetime

Talking Heads