The Globe and Mail

Within the world of creative giants, the personalities are both large and formidable. Sydney Pollack, the acclaimed Hollywood director responsible for such films as The Way We Were and Out of Africa, and Frank Gehry, arguably the world's most famous architect, are long-time buddies. And both are men who prefer all outward appearances to be relaxed and laid-back. Inner angst -- something that plagues each of them in spite of their immense talent -- resides in rippling pools located directly below the surface. It was a pivotal, angst-ridden moment in 1997 that ultimately provoked the making of Sketches of Frank Gehry, the first documentary directed by Pollack, which premiered at this year's Toronto International Film Festival and has its final screening tonight. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the building that tipped the world to the power of Gehry's unleashed architecture, was opening that year. Gehry found himself filled with dread, even embarrassment. More than once he asked himself, "What have I done?"