James Toback
Senarist · d. 1944 · New York City, New York, USA
James Lee Toback (born November 23, 1944) is an American screenwriter and film director. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Toback, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Film6.0KomediDramGerry, yetenekli bir poker oyuncusudur fakat kumar bağımlılığı finansal durumunu zora sokmaktadır. Gerry, genç poker oyuncusu Curtis’i, New Orleans’taki yüksek meblağların döndüğü poker turnuvasına gitmeye ikna eder. Tüm yolculuk sırasında ikilin gerçek motivasyonları ifşa edilecektir.
Film6.8BelgeselNicholas Jarecki follows director James Toback on the 12-day shoot of his thriller, When Will I Be Loved -- a movie made without a script or distribution deal.
The Outsider
2005 · 6 votes
Film4.6DramRich Bover işlediği suçlardan ve suçlular arasında yaşamaktan bıkmış ve bundan kurtulmak için de kendini tiyatro oyunları sahneye koyan bir impresaryo olarak tanıtarak beyazların dünyasına girmeye başlamışır. Ancak beklediklerinin aksine yabancı olan bu dünyada da herkes birbirinin kuyusunu kazmakta ve birbirlerine zarar vermektedir. Belgesel film yapımcısı Sam Donager ile ahlaksız kocası onun hayatına girerler çünkü bu ikili şehrin zengin kesiminden bazı gençleri takip etmektedir ve bu gençler de Rich Bower'in tanıttığı hayat stiline kapılmışlardır.
Film6.4FantastikDramHayatını başarılı bir eşin (William Hurt) gölgesinde yaşayan Alice (Mia Farrow) yaşadığı eklem ağrılarına çözüm bulmak için doktor Yang (Keye Luke)'ın muayenehanesine gider. İlginç doktor Yang'a göre sorun yürekte ve beyindedir. Alice, çocuklarının okulunda gördüğü karizmatik dul Joe (Joe Mantagno)'dan hoşlanmıştır. Alice, doktor Yang'ın görünmezlik iksiri sayesinde Joe'yu yakından tanıma fırsatı bulduğu gibi kocasının da ne haltlar karıştırdığını anlayarak yaşadığı suçluluk duygusunu bastıracaktır
Alice
1990 · 353 votes
Film4.1DramGerilimNeve Campbell, Dominic Chianese ve Fred Weller, seksüel gücünün tehlikeli ve korkutucu sınırlarını keşfeden bir femme fatale’i konu alan bu tutkulu, erotik gerilim filminde başrolleri paylaşıyor. Para, güç ve arzunun yakıcı birleşimini işleyen filmin yönetmenliğini James Toback üstleniyor. When Will I Be Loved, “cinsellik ve kimlik politikalarının aydınlatıcı bir keşfi” (Slant Magazine) olarak tanımlanıyor ve izleyiciyi baştan çıkaran, ateşli bir yolculuğa sürüklüyor.
Film6.4KomediA story which centers around Dave Katz, a journalist at a hip-hop magazine who is sent on assignment to uncover the often comedic underworld of Roc-a-Fella Records run by Damon Dash and Jay-Z.
Death of a Dynasty
2003 · 8 votes
Film4.8DramWisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind and escapes to New York. There she soon makes a career for herself as a fashion model. During a vernissage she's approached by a mysterious man whose motives are unclear...
Exposed
1983 · 16 votes
Film6.2BelgeselSEDUCED AND ABANDONED combines acting legend Alec Baldwin with director James Toback as they lead us on a troublesome and often hilarious journey of raising financing for their next feature film. Moving from director to financier to star actor, the two players provide us with a unique look behind the curtain at the world's biggest and most glamourous film festival, shining a light on the bitter-sweet relationship filmmakers have with Cannes and the film business. Featuring insights from directors Martin Scorsese, 'Bernando Bertolucci' and Roman Polanski; actors Ryan Gosling and Jessica Chastain and a host of film distribution luminaries.
Seduced and Abandoned
2013 · 55 votes
Film5.0BelgeselThe film takes a look at the life of NFL hall-of-famer Jim Brown. The film delves into his life—past, present and future—focusing on his athletic career, acting and activism. Many people from Hollywood and sports backgrounds were interviewed for the film. Members of Brown's family were also interviewed for the film.
Jim Brown: All-American
2002 · 6 votes
Film6.6BelgeselFriends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs in this unconventional documentary directed by Fuller's only child, Samantha.
A Fuller Life
2013 · 13 votes
Film4.2KomediRomantikA womanizing New York adman attempts to identify the causes of, and find a remedy for, his so-called addiction to sex, in order to win the love of a woman he respects.
Giving It Up
1999 · 13 votes
FilmBelgeselRetrospective documentary of the film "Bugsy"
Film5.2BelgeselHow did America change from Easy Rider into Donald Trump? What became of the dreams and utopias of the 1960's and 1970's? What do the people who lived in that golden age think about it today? Did they really blow it? Shot in Cinemascope - from New Jersey to California - this melancholic and elegiac road-movie draws upon the portrait of a confused, complex and incandescent America one year after the start of the electoral campaign. That golden age has become its last romantic border and an inconsolable America is about to pull on a trigger called Trump.
We Blew It
2017 · 10 votes
FilmDramRico reunites with his ex-wife after serving a five year prison term for armed robbery. Upon Rico's release he encounters old and new forces conspiring to bring him down and tear him between what he holds dear and what he most fears.
Never Down
2007
Film7.4BelgeselA road-movie narrated by Michael Cimino (recorded by the documentary's director during their journey together across the United States), and with the exceptional participation of Quentin Tarantino and Oliver Stone. From Thunderbolt and Lightfoot to Year of the Dragon, not to mention The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate, discover a unique portrait of an uncompromising director.
Film6.1DramFantastikVisionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.
River of Fundament
2014 · 19 votes
Film3.4SuçDramSuccessful actress Vera Lockman thrashes during a nightmare in which she struggles with, shoots and kills her drug-dealer ex-boyfriend. Jolted awake, she reveals in her journal that the killing actually occurred the day before and that Sal, dead, lies in a trunk in her living room.
An Imperfect Murder
2017 · 29 votes
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The director and the actor from Fingers (1978) talks about the film
Film5.0BelgeselFilmmaker James Toback poses basic questions in philosophy, such as why we're here and where we're going, to various celebrities and ordinary people.
The Big Bang
1990 · 6 votes
FilmBelgeselPortrait of Norman Mailer at the time of the Pentagon demonstrations in 1967, documenting Mailer's involvement and arrest, together with two TV appearances and shooting on the set of his second film 'Beyond the Law'.