
Moreau,” orders Kilmer to stop his video recording, and Kilmer says he’ll do so if Frankenheimer pledges not to leave the movie. (It was a bit of a mania.) The film opens with him horsing around in his trailer with Rick Rossovich during the shooting of “Top Gun,” and there’s a funny sequence in which John Frankenheimer, the director of “The Island of Dr.

He was onto the whole obsession with self-recording ahead of everyone else he kept a video camera running at home, on movie sets, wherever he was.


“Val,” directed by Leo Scott and Ting Poo, is a portrait of Kilmer - actor, celebrity, human being - that is, in many ways, a self-portrait, since it’s built around 40 years’ worth of videos that Kilmer made of himself.
