1986 • United Kingdom • Directed by Paul Joyce

Documentary maker Paul Joyce, filmmaker Monte Hellman, one day, nine rolls of film and one epic interview that would last until either the men or the camera ran out of juice and resulted in Joyce’s most personal piece yet: Plunging on Alone: Monte Hellman’s Life in a Day.

Monte Hellman is a Roger Corman graduate who made four films with Jack Nicholson, directed the hell out of everything from the high-speed road movie Two-Lane Blacktop to Silent Night Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out!, and was not only a huge influence on Quentin Tarantino, but an executive-producer of Reservoir Dogs. In this feature-length documentary from 1986 you will get to know this legend as well as anybody.