"Sr."

"Sr." (2022) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Robert Downey Jr. turns the camera on his father — the fearless filmmaker who, across the sixties and seventies, helped invent American countercultural comedy.

Shot in black and white, the film runs two conversations at once. In one, the ailing elder Downey is busy cutting his own version of this very movie, on screen. In the other, his son digs back through a childhood spent on wild sets like Putney Swope. Director Chris Smith skips the tidy life story and instead catches how two men talk to each other while there's still time to talk. Paul Thomas Anderson, Alan Arkin and Norman Lear drop by.

It's a quiet goodbye that works even if you've never heard the name Downey Sr. — a film about craft, stubbornness, and the kind of love nobody in the family quite says out loud. Stream "Sr." (2022) online on iFILM.