Directed by Robert Downey Sr. • 1966 • United States
This riot of bad taste was a breakthrough for Robert Downey Sr., thanks to rave notices. Visualized largely in still 35 mm photographs, it follows a shiftless downtown Manhattanite having his “annual November breakdown” as he wanders from one odd job to the next, coming across all sorts of sordid types, from a desperate independent filmmaker to a destitute dirty-sock sniffer. And there is something to offend everyone: incest, murder, bad pop songs, you name it.
Preserved by Anthology Film Archives, with funding provided by The Film Foundation.
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No More Excuses
Directed by Robert Downey Sr. and Robert Soukis • 1968 • United States
Downey takes his camera and microphone onto the streets (and into some bedrooms) for a look at Manhattan’s singles scene of the late sixties. Of course, that’s not all: NO MORE EXCUSES cuts between this footage and the frag...
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Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight
Directed by Robert Downey Sr. • 1975 • United States
"A film without a beginning or an end," in Downey's words, this Dadaist thingamajig, a never-before-seen, newly reedited version of the director's 1975 release Moment to Moment (also known as Jive), is a rush of curious sketches, scenes, and...
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Robert Downey: Moment to Moment
Directed by Sean Price Williams • 2021 • United States
To pay tribute to one of his filmmaking heroes, Sean Price Willams adopts a style that’s just as out there as his subject, mixing new material and never-before-seen archival footage in this portrait of the underground film titan Robert Downe...
