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tributes<br />
tysoN<br />
Usa<br />
2008<br />
90 miN<br />
Dir James Toback<br />
ProD Damon Bingham, James Toback<br />
Cam Larry McConkey<br />
ED Aaron Yates<br />
mUs Salaam Remi<br />
PriNt soUrCE Sony Pictures Classics, 550<br />
Madison Avenue, 8th Floor, New York NY<br />
10022. EMAIL: info@spe.sony.com<br />
66<br />
Mike Tyson was a boxer raised on the streets and trained<br />
by Cus D’Amato, but he was a character who might have<br />
been dreamed up by Norman Mailer or Dostoyevsky. In the<br />
bloated and fraudulent world of professional boxing, he<br />
made “the most frightening man on earth” seem reliable<br />
yet modest as a label. After the charms and poems of<br />
Muhammad Ali, Tyson was Black Vengeance Returns. And<br />
in the entire history of boxers on film, he is perhaps the<br />
most tragic and enlightening. But how can the ear-biter,<br />
the man who squandered $300 million and the convicted<br />
rapist be the central figure in a poignant, thoughtful<br />
entertainment? The answer to that is the astonishing<br />
chemistry made between Tyson the lifelong fighter and<br />
James Toback, the relentless pursuer of heroes caught in<br />
their own existential chaos. And how does it work? Tyson<br />
talks. The film Tyson is a documentary-with clips from the<br />
many fights-but it is a heart song, too, as Tyson talks about<br />
a life of near constant abuse and humiliation. And as he<br />
talks, so his innate violence becomes clearer. Tyson is not<br />
an apology or an apologia, but a piercing insight into how<br />
our society creates its villains and then despises them for<br />
behaving badly. Whatever you think of Mike Tyson now<br />
(before you see this film), we guarantee your mind will be<br />
changed.<br />
—David Thomson<br />
aN aftErNooN<br />
With JamEs<br />
tobaCK<br />
sAturdAY, mAY 2<br />
4:00 Pm sundAnCe kAbuki CinemAs<br />
1881 Post street (At Fillmore)<br />
The <strong>Film</strong> Society proudly presents this year’s Kanbar<br />
Award for excellence in screenwriting to the inimitable<br />
James Toback. The brilliantly scandalous pen behind such<br />
films as Fingers and The Gambler, Toback will discuss<br />
and show clips from his work during the course of an<br />
onstage interview. A screening will follow of Toback’s<br />
latest project, a fascinating portrait simply titled Tyson,<br />
capping this very special evening with a fearless writer.<br />
A complete article with biographical information on Kanbar<br />
Award recipient James Toback can be found on page 40.<br />
JamEs tobaCK<br />
sAt mAY 2 4:00 kAbuki AwAr02k
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