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Article: The Toronto Film Festival.
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- Cineaste
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- December 22, 2005
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The Toronto International Film Festival continues to perform an annual high-wire act. The bulk of the press coverage devoted to the festival focuses on the wide array of film stars who fly up to Toronto to flog mediocre movies on the order of Shopgirl and Elizabethtown. The majority of the cinephiles who flock to Toronto, however, studiously ignore the glitz and lap up more esoteric items, which this year ranged from the remarkable Romanian tragicomedy, The Death of Mister Lazareseu, to Michael Snow's latest short film.
Of course, a film such as Mary Harron's The Notorious Bettie Page--which premiered at Toronto to a combination of polite bemusement and ...