Topic: James Toback
All the while that producer Marc Fiore was making pricey pay-or-play deals and holding press conferences in New York and Cannes to trumpet John...
Imagine if you'd written a 1974 autobiographical masterpiece of a screenplay about compulsive gambling directed by Karel Reisz and starring James...
Mike Tyson, whose reign as the globe's most feared heavyweight was followed by an epic fall from grace, was named Tuesday for induction into the International Boxing Hall of Fame and Museum.Tyson headlines a list that also includes Mexican three-division ...
consists of a medley of clips of interviews with nineteen people, mostly about "big" or philosophical questions about personal identity, an afterlife, love, the origin of the universe, etc. I traveled around the country and interviewed eleven people in my life, asking ...
Mike Tyson is like O.J.: So viewers might be surprised to hear these words come out of Iron Mike's mouth near the end of Tyson, James Toback's documentary-as-monologue about the former heavyweight champ: So Tyson addresses everything from his ...
What is it about the art of boxing that draws out Maileresque anecdotes? In the wood-paneled chambers of the Harvard Club, James Toback, director of the absorbing Tyson, has plenty. "The only thing Rocky Marciano ate on the morning of a fight ...
To misquote Magritte, this is not a guide to the London film festival. But at the time of writing I have already missed out on La Belle Personne, Hassan and Morcos, Firaaq, Parc and Bigmouth Strikes Again. Friday gives us James Toback ...