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NOW's FILM FESTIVAL GUIDE
Got your passbooks? Looking for tips? NOW previews more
than 60 movies -- and daily online updates -- to help you make your
picks.
By JOHN HARKNESS, CAMERON BAILEY, JOUMANE CHAHINE, ANDREW DOWLER, PAUL ENNIS and SARAH LISS
More stars than in any three L.A. rehab clinics! Films from exotic places like Iran, Chad and British Columbia! People begging for tickets to movies no one would pay to see if it weren't the first two weeks of September!
Yes, it's the 27th Toronto International Film Festival. It's an improbable event where you can see improbable things: 10 movies from South Korea, whole programs of experimental films, a remake of Bob Le Flambeur that doesn't suck, and Joel Schumacher being treated like a real filmmaker, not the guy who made Batman And Robin.
If the crowds get to be a bit much or you're worried that dinner is going to make you late for that Italian film you've heard so much about, remember - if it's any good, it'll be back, perhaps in a theatre, perhaps in one of those video cassette thingies that are so popular these days. It's only a movie. Or 300 movies.
Joumane Chahine is a Montreal-based writer who covers film festivals for An-Nahar magazine in Beirut.
Toronto writer Andrew Dowler has contributed to more than a dozen NOW festival guides.
Paul Ennis is the editor of Festival magazine.
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