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Moments: A Conversation with Robert Downey Sr. (2014)

Jonathan Marlow — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 21:03:56 +0000

Moments: a conversation with Robert Downey Sr. (a prince) — Jonathan Marlow On the occasion of Truth and Soul, Inc., a 2014 retrospective in Los Angeles, Jonathan Marlow telephoned the extraordinary filmmaker Robert Downey Sr. in order to ramble on […]

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A Conversation with Ira Deutchman (SEARCHING FOR MR. RUGOFF)

Christopher Reed — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 18:42:04 +0000

Longtime film producer, distributor and marketer (and Columbia University professor) Ira Deutchman steps behind the camera for his first feature-length documentary as director to tell the tale of Don Rugoff, who once ruled the art-house movie circuit in his heyday. […]

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SEARCHING FOR MR. RUGOFF

Christopher Reed — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 18:33:47 +0000

(Searching for Mr. Rugoff, the latest from longtime film producer, distributor and marketer Ira Deutchman, is in select theaters now. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) […]

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ON THE FRINGE, PART THREE: ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE (1974)

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:18:20 +0000

Something was happening in the American cinema starting in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Among other progressions in societal mores, technology and legalities, this decade+ could arguably be considered a Golden Age of courageous truth-telling films that mine […]

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ROBERT DOWNEY SR.

Brandon Harris — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:38:45 +0000

(Based on the success of last fall’s retrospective of Robert Downey Sr.’s early work, Anthology Film Archives is bringing that same package back for the weekend of February 6th-8th, 2009. If you missed it then, now is your chance to […]

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PUTNEY SWOPE

Nelson Kim — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:52:45 +0000

(Putney Swope is available on DVD from Amazon. From September 12th through 18th, Anthology Film Archives in NYC will be showing four very rarely screened—and unavailable on video—’60s and ’70s films written and directed by Robert Downey, Sr. As a […]

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