Subject: James Toback

• Promiscuous Prudes

  April 23, 1998

• Mike Tyson: Back In Our Hearts Again?

  Photo by Kevin ScanlonMike Tyson's had an...ummm....interesting life. Winning the heavyweight title, getting convicted of rape, biting guy's ears off, making $300 million over his career but going bankrupt, being the basis for The Simpsons' Drederick Tatum.It's a full life.And now it's being examined in a feature-length documentary by James Toback, a director who's gotten some awkward publicity of his own throughout the years.Scott Foundas of our sister paper LA Weekly has taken an in-depth look

  April 8, 2009

• Boxing, Sex and Madness

  Mike Tyson's many personalities are on display in James Toback's new documentary.

  April 9, 2009

• A Polish auteur -- and Mike Tyson! -- stage comebacks at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

  May 22, 2008

• The Popcorn King

  Rush Hour 3 director Brett Ratner has been called a fauxteur, a womanizer and, worse, over budget. Why you should take him seriously anyway.

  August 9, 2007

• Follow the Music

  A brash realtor rediscovers the piano in a gripping French remake

  August 18, 2005

• Indecent Disposal

  James Toback wastes an uninhibited Neve on a cheesy Adrian Lyne rip-off

  September 23, 2004

• Better in Pairs

  Generally a letdown, the year in film offered some well-crafted works that are best viewed as double features

  December 28, 2000

• Mixmaster

  Director James Toback crosses racial, gender and class lines in the gracefully gritty Black and White

  April 6, 2000

• Sucker Punch

  With a blunt and searching Iron Mike, Tyson delivers asurprisingly powerful blow.

  May 7, 2009