Enjoyable personal documentary from Boorman who made two films with Marvin in the 60s (apparently he wanted him for Deliverance as well) and has written about him several times. This repeats some of those anecdotes – forming a bond on Point Blank; Marvin pretending to be drunk to give the director some more time; his creativity on Hell in the Pacific. There’s also long chats with Jim Jarmusch, a big Marvin fan who does look like him but doesn’t sound as much like him as Boorman says he does; Pamela Marvin; William Hurt (who loved working with him on Gorky Park); and an old army buddy (who talks of Marvin's experience on Saipan). It’s not as extensive as you want it to be because of the running time, but the method of concentrating only on a few people works well, I felt. Mostly positive but not entirely – he could get mean, especially when enraptured by a role, and could be a handful. Marvin talks interestingly in archival footage about his passions and acting; there’s footage of him filming on the Great Barrier Reef (he went with William Hurt).
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