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  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Westlake Entertainment Group
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Westlake Entertainment Group
  • 1 h 25 m
The Outsider

Summary The Outsider, a feature-length documentary from first-time writer/director Nicholas Jarecki, is a film about film, specifically, the power of film to create, to move, and to endure. It follows one of America’s most obsessive and intriguing filmmakers, James Toback, writer/director of 11 movies. Filmed over an 8-month period, The Outsider...

Directed By: Nicholas Jarecki

Written By: Nicholas Jarecki

  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Westlake Entertainment Group
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Westlake Entertainment Group
  • 1 h 25 m

The Outsider

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
64
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary The Outsider, a feature-length documentary from first-time writer/director Nicholas Jarecki, is a film about film, specifically, the power of film to create, to move, and to endure. It follows one of America’s most obsessive and intriguing filmmakers, James Toback, writer/director of 11 movies. Filmed over an 8-month period, The Outsider...

Directed By: Nicholas Jarecki

Written By: Nicholas Jarecki

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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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An ideal introduction to Toback's output as well as a welcome elucidation for longtime fans. Apart from those worthy functions, The Outsider is also shrewdly made, illuminating its subject in a variety of settings and, at times, subtly assuming the style of Toback's films.
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Nicholas Jarecki's The Outsider is among the great docs about moviemaking.
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70
James Toback seems oddly nice in Nicholas Jarecki's delicious cult-of-personality documentary The Outsider.
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63
As is often the case with Toback's films, even as you're shaking your head at his shameless self-indulgence, you can't help but keep on watching.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
63
Jarecki seems all too eager to buy into Toback's depiction of himself as the ultimate Hollywood outsider. Try telling that to the independent filmmakers who aren't on a first-name basis with Warren Beatty.
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50
A tragically missed opportunity to illuminate one of the more unusual cinematic talents working today.
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Toback quickly reveals himself as an insufferable, opinionated blowhard who pontificates shamelessly about the art of the cinema while indulging his own obsessions on film.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Green Room Films, ICM Partners
Release Date Apr 7, 2006
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating Not Rated
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Tagline If you haven't been inside... you've only seen half the picture.
Website http://www.outsidermovie.com/
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