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Article: TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL; Old theme in a new war; De Palma's 'Redacted' echoes his early 'Casualties of War'
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 12, 2007
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Toronto - Director Brian De Palma will never forget Sept. 11 as
long as he lives. It's his birthday.
In 2001, he was at the Toronto International Film Festival and
watched the falling towers projected onto the big screen instead of
the movie he went to see. Every birthday since has been shared with
that terrible anniversary.
"It's extremely vivid," he said in an interview Tuesday. "And I
live in Greenwich Village."
Six years later, De Palma, 67, is here with a work rooted in
those events.
Every festival has a flashpoint film whose reputation is either
deserved, like "Brokeback Mountain," or ephemeral, like "Death of a
President," a fictional obituary of President Bush that never saw
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