Love, Antosha

Love, Antosha (2019) is a documentary about Anton Yelchin you can watch online on iFILM. The actor who played Chekov in the rebooted Star Trek died at 27, and this film reassembles his life from his own journals, photographs and the voices of those who loved him.

The Yelchins left the Soviet Union when Anton was barely a year old; growing up in California, he gravitated to the camera early and was rarely without a notebook. Director Garret Price reads those private writings aloud, threading them through interviews with the people who worked beside him — Willem Dafoe, Nicolas Cage, Jennifer Lawrence, Kristen Stewart, J.J. Abrams, Jodie Foster. What emerges isn't a highlight reel but a person: the illness he kept quiet, the music he composed, the letters home he signed "love, Antosha."

It's the rare star portrait that refuses to become a list of credits — Price is after who Yelchin was off the set. For anyone who knew him from Terminator Salvation, Star Trek or Green Room, the film lands as a genuine loss, a talent caught just as it was opening up. Stream Love, Antosha (2019) on iFILM.