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...There have been about 20 or 30 essays that have been really smart,” Toback said. One, a Jungian analysis published in a book about actor Harvey Keitel, “was immensely convincing,” according to Toback...
...Toback, who names Dostoyevsky as his primary artistic and philosophical influence, considers psychoanalysis and existentialism key influences on his films. He describes Fingers as “a psychological and physical unraveling into nothingness...
...films try to make some sense of the chaos that I create and live in,” Toback says. “The whole Wittgensteinian, Kierkegaardian, Heideggarian essence of my consciousness is explored to the extent that one can explore it in a movie...
Last Friday’s event was not Toback’s first return to Harvard. His film Harvard Man (2001), a semi-autobiographical reenactment of Toback’s life-changing experiments with LSD during his undergraduate years, was filmed on location in Cambridge. And Toback was a key speaker in a conference sponsored by the Department of Afro-American Studies after the 1999 release of his film Black and White, which explored the popularity of hip-hop music in white suburbia...
...When I come back now, I have this terrific feeling of visiting a place that was very valuable in my life,” Toback says. “Oscar Wilde, in Frank Harris’ biography of Wilde, talks about what Oxford meant to him. There was no other place he could have dreamed of going. I felt that way about Harvard…It was the place I must have, could have, should have been—and actually...