Robert Downey Sr. emerged as one of the most irreverent filmmakers of the New York underground of the sixties, taking no prisoners in his rough-and-tumble treatises on politics, race, and consumer culture.
Jean Grémillon
France
Edition: DVD
Though little known outside of France, Jean Grémillon is a consummate filmmaker from his country’s golden age.
Norman Mailer
United States
Edition: DVD
Norman Mailer is remembered for many things—his novels, his essays, his articles, his activism, his ego. One largely forgotten chapter of his life, however, is his late-sixties, headlong, kamikaze-style plunge into making experimental films.