Robert Downey

In the 1960s, Robert Downey began writing and directing basement-budget, absurdist films that gained an underground following: Balls Bluff, Babo 73Chafed Elbows, No More Excuses and Putney Swope, the first Downey film to earn a mainstream release. The irreverence continued in later decades with Greaser’s Palace, PoundSticks and Bones (a play for the New York Public), Two Tons of Turquoise, Hugo Pool and Rittenhouse Square, a 2005 documentary. Currently he’s finishing a new screenplay.

Talks

Robert Downey (Putney Swope) Talks with Elliott Gould for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

By Robert Downey | August 8, 2014

Robert Downey (Putney Swope) Talks with Elliott Gould for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Two legends of American cinema discuss Altman, aging, Beatty, baseball, Coppola, Groucho, marriage, the state of the world...