The Outsider, Nicholas Jarecki, 2005

Jarecki's endearing (if somewhat commonplace) portrait of director James Toback offers a number of entertaining antecdotes (Toback lived with Jim Brown in the 70s?!), alongside some valuable insight into Toback's singular process. Dissapointingly, though, Jarecki and his cast of hagiographers (rangeing from Robert Towne to Brett Ratner) only tacitly confront the demons that have long plagued and inspired the mercurial director.