Val Amazon Prime on August 6.
For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.
109 Minutes | Rated R
Filmmakers
Leo Scott
Leo began editing commercials and music videos in his hometown of London nearly 20 years ago. In 2013, he edited Gia Coppola’s directorial debut, Palo Alto. He conceptualized, produced, and edited the film Gozo, which won Best UK Feature at Raindance in 2016. His frequent collaborators include Harmony Korine, Die Antwoord, and Garth Davis. He is a partner/owner at Cartel and has edited many award-winning commercials including Under Armor’s iconic “Phelps” campaign which won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2016. Leo met Val Kilmer while editing Korine’s segment of the experimental feature, The Fourth Dimension in 2012, and they have been friends and collaborators ever since.
Ting Poo
Ting majored in film at Columbia University, after which she worked at @ radicalmedia for almost 10 years cutting both commercial and long form content. In 2008, she edited the documentary Britney: For the Record which, at its premiere, was the most highly anticipated and watched program ever to air on MTV. She has worked on both independent features, and documentary series and is interested in storytelling across all platforms. In 2015, she co-edited her first VR piece, The Displaced, which won the Entertainment Grand Prix at Cannes and earned her an Emmy nomination for New Approaches: Current News Coverage. Recently, she edited “Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405” which won an Oscar for best documentary short.
Val Kilmer Filmography
1980’s
Top Secret! (1984)
Real Genius (1985)
Top Gun (1986)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1986)
The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (1987)
Willow (1988)
Gore Vidal’s Billy the Kid (1989)
Kill Me Again (1989)
1990’s
The Doors (1991)
Thunderheart (1992)
True Romance (1993)
The Real McCoy (1993)
Tombstone (1993)
Batman Forever (1995)
Heat (1995)
Dead Girl (1996)
A Century of Science Fiction (1996)
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
Wings of Courage (1996)
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
The Saint (1997)
The Prince of Egypt (1998)
At First Sight (1999)
Joe the King (1999)
Pollock (2000)
2000
Red Planet (2000)
The Salton Sea (2002)
Hard Cash (2002)
Masked and Anonymous (2003)
Wonderland (2003)
The Missing (2003)
Blind Horizon (2003)
Spartan (2004)
Mindhunters (2004)
George and the Dragon (2004)
Stateside (2004)
Bounty Hunters (2004)
Alexander (2004)
Trudell (2005)
Champion (2005)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
The Ten Commandments (2006)
10th & Wolf (2006)
Moscow Zero (2006)
Dead Man’s Bounty (2006)
Played (2006)
Déjà Vu (2006)
Have Dreams, Will Travel (2007)
Conspiracy (2008)
American Meth (2008)
The Love Guru (2008)
Felon (2008)
Columbus Day (2008)
2:22 (2008)
XIII: The Conspiracy (2008)
Delgo (2008)
The Thaw (2009)
The Steam Experiment (2009)
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans (2009)
Streets of Blood (2009)
American Cowslip (2009)
Hardwired (2009)
Double Identity (2009)
Bloodworth (2010)
MacGruber (2010)
Gun (2010)
The Traveler (2010)
2010
Kill the Irishman (2011)
5 Days of War (2011)
Blood Out (2011)
Twixt (2011)
Deep in the Heart (2012)
Breathless (2012)
Wyatt Earp’s Revenge (2012)
7 Below (2012)
The Fourth Dimension (2012)
Riddle (2013)
Planes (2013)
Standing Up (2013)
Palo Alto (2013)
Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (2014)
Cinema Twain (2016)
Song to Song (2017)
The Snowman (2017)
The Super (2017)
1st Born (2018)
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019)
A Soldier’s Revenge (2020)
Paydirt (2020)
The Birthday Cake (2021)
Top Gun: Maverick (2021)