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About The Outsider
This
feature length documentary by Nicholas Jarecki follows one of
America
’s most enigmatic and intriguing filmmakers, James Toback, over an 8-month
period, through the shooting, editing, scoring and release of his newest film.Through his examination of the craft, Jarecki explores the power of film,
to create, to move and to endure.The
movie evolves through explicit conversations with Toback about his compulsions:
gambling, drugs, alcohol, sexual experimentation, and how they reveal themselves
in his films by interweaving film clips into the discussions.The film also contains frank and illuminating interviews about life and
film with Toback’s collaborators including: Woody Allen, Robert Downey, Jr.,
Mike Tyson, Harvey Keitel, Neve Campbell, Norman Mailer, Brooke Shields, Barry
Levinson, Jim Brown, Robert Towne, Brett Ratner, Roger Ebert, Bridget Hall,
Damon Dash, Woody Harrelson, Bijou Phillips, Jeff Berg, Dominic Chianese, and
Power from Wu-Tang Clan.
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