More Than Chick Flicks

The cinemavens at the Toronto International Film Festival talk about movies with a connoisseur's urgency and will pick a fight over pictures that may never grace a cineplex. Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi , with the star-director playing Japan's legendary blind swordsman, provoked one such debate. Some said it was too faithful to the old Zatoichi movies to be a true Takeshi film, others that it was too Takeshi to be a true Zatoichi . (No matter: the picture still won the People's Choice plebiscite.)

But you needn't stand in the block-long queues for illuminating movie chat. You could simply flag...

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