Toronto Star

Sketches of Frank Gehry, premiering today at the Elgin, is not the kind of movie the world expects from the man who made Tootsie, won an Oscar for directing Out of Africa and produced The Talented Mr. Ripley. "I've never done a documentary, and I really didn't know anything about architecture," the burly, casually Hollywood veteran by the name of Sydney Pollack explained over coffee yesterday at the Four Seasons' Studio Café, Toronto's unofficial celebrity HQ, while Paul Haggis, Ivan Reitman, Jeff Bridges and Steve Martin hover at other tables. "But in a way that was an advantage, because my questions were the ones the the audience would ask." Seeking to avoid a talking-heads film, Pollack recalls: "I was looking for the documentary equivalent of Frank's approach to architecture. That's why I used the word `sketches.'"