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THE BATTALION
25th Toronto film festival
draws crowd, celebrities
Serb forces massing in ethnic
iAlbanian areas before elections
tey, directly in the stonf: ?oslavia (AP) —
tout 100 miles northc
but many of this rustt
town’s 800
aying put.
iquate staffing at nursi
the “number one
TORONTO (AP) — After 10
days and more than 300 movies at the
world's ultimate "people’s” film fes
tival, the people have spoken.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Tiger. Ang
Lee's historical action-romance, was
named the winner Sunday of the Peo
ple's Choice Awards at the Toronto
International Film Festival.
Lee is a native of Taiwan best
known for such English-language
movies as The Ice Storm and Sense
and Sensibility. His current film,
however, is set during the Qing dy
nasty in China and stars Chow Yun-
Fat as a martial arts warrior who
longs to retire.
“There’s an innocence, a pure
magic of movement to this movie.”
said festival director Piers Handling.
“It takes you back to your childhood
days, when people fly across rooftops
and have sword fights in trees.”
The Dish, an Australian comedy
about the 1969 moon landing, fin
ished second among audience voters.
Previous winners have included
American Beauty, Shine and Life is
Beautiful.
This was the 25th year of the fes
tival. which ended Saturday, and it
was marked by appearances from
Gwyneth Paltrow, A1 Pacino, Ed
Harris and rrtany other celebrities.
But what defined the 25th festival is
what has defined it from the start:
the public.
Unlike Cannes, Toronto is where
filmmakers get to show their work to
a general audience. For the past week
and a half, lines formed in lobbies,
down stairwells, around street cor
ners and back again. Film lovers
woke up early, went to bed late, used
up vacation time and came out to see
everything from Midnight Madness
horror screenings to comedies in the
morning.
“It takes you
back to your
childhood days,
when people fly
across rooftops
and have sword
fights in trees.”
— Piers Handling
festival director
"I cut out of work to see a cou
ple of movies,” admitted 27-year-
old Andrew Egan, a bank program
mer who stood in the late summer
cold one morning to catch a show
ing of The Dish.
Once a far more intimate affair,
the Toronto festival can be likened to
a small business that grows beyond
its own expectations. The challenge
becomes how to handle all the extra
customers without losing what made
it special in the first place.
"We were very worried a few
years ago that the industry side would
crowd out the public side,” Handling
said. “So we just added press and in
dustry screenings. In fact, it was
press people who had a hard time get
ting to see movies.”
Toronto has been known to
“make” films. In 1999, response to
American Beauty was widely be
lieved to be a major step to its Acad
emy Award success six months lat
er. In previous years, productions
such as Robert Duvall’s The Apos
tle and the German action film Run
Lola Run picked up U.S. distribu
tors thanks to that mysterious, es
sential aura known as “buzz.”
This year, however, there were no
obvious favorites. Festival bees
buzzed among several movies, in
cluding the Australian romance In
nocence, the British comedy Billy El
liott and the American political
drama The Contender.
For salespeople, the 25th Toron
to festival was the busiest yet;
Toronto now challenges Cannes
and Sundance as an industry show
case. From the Iranian drama The
Circle to the Thai gangster movie
Bangkok Dangerous, films re
ceived distribution deals all over
the world.
“This is my 10th festival and it
was the most successful so far,’’ said
Wouter Barendrecht, chair of Fortis
simo Film Sales, a company based in
Hong Kong that represented
Bangkok Dangerous and several oth
er releases.
DOBROSIN,
Yu-
The
eader of an ethnic Alban-
an rebel army in southern
resider::|Serbia claimed Sunday
hat Serbian forces are
nassing in the Albanian-
najority region in the run-
jp to Yugoslav elections.
The rebel group is pre-
ton proposes
eased funds
• U^^Aftared to fight back if the
lursmg homes 5erbs ^ ahe; , d of the
-HINGTON fAP) — Pre; Sept. 24 presidential and
HINGTON (AP) - Precept. 24 presidential
inton proposed spend?; parliamentary elections,
n to remedy what hesa^aid Bexhet Mehmeti, a
:ommander in the Libera-
ion Army of Presevo,
to neglect for too ml VIedvedja and Bujanovac,
riericans. mown by its Albanian-lan-
e l A H ie 7, C i nS ’ T h ° h ! sUage acronym UCPMB.
“spect^otneglect”Cl: “ The number of Serb
d Saturday in his wee) forces has been increasing
fdress. He was broadcl recenll y aild continuously,
n the Washington Hon* There are reinforcements
able nursing home not® around this area,” Mehmeti
e White House. told reporters, flanked by
Republican-controlledCftwo men armed with rifles
vhich expects to consioU’and wearing uniforms with
:are this fall, “will try to«he group’s red and black
die ground” on a variety) § ns : gn i„
said John Czwartad
man for Senate Major
Trent Lott, R-Miss.
1805 Briarcrest
776-0999
Come ioin the fun!
K
Mehmeti claimed the
Yugoslav government may
try to distract attention
from problems inside Ser
bia during the election by
creating tension in the sen
sitive area near the U.S.-pa
trolled Kosovo boundary.
Belgrade considers the
UCPMB a terrorist organi
zation and blames it for nu
merous attacks on its
forces. It also claims a
number of Serbs have fled
the region.
Mehmeti said the
UCPMB would boycott
next week’s elections — a
precedent set by rebel Al
banians in Kosovo in the
early 1990s.
The group first ap
peared in January. It is un
clear how large the rebel
force is, although it claims
to have support and poten
tial fighters throughout the
ethnic Albanian majority
area of southern Serbia.
NATO-led peacekeep
ers have repeatedly said
they do not support the
rebels’ actions and have
conducted several raids on
suspected weapons stock
piles of the group inside
Kosovo.
The peacekeepers
moved into Kosovo last
year, following NATO
bombing aimed at halting
Yugoslav President Slobo
dan Milosevic’s crack
down on ethnic Albanians
in the province.
In Belgrade on Sunday,
three student activists were
sentenced to 10 days in
prison each for spraying
anti-government graffiti. A
Serbian court found them
guilty of violating “law
and order.”
Members of Otpor,
which translates as “Re
sistance,” the students
were accused of scrawl
ing “He’s finished” on
buildings in a Belgrade
suburb Saturday.
The slogan referred to
Milosevic, who hopes to
be re-elected president. In
dependent polls show him
trailing the leading opposi
tion candidate Vojislav
Kostunica.
Kostunica warned Sat
urday evening that Milose
vic would use “thugs and
liars” to rig the upcoming
ballot if necessary to stay
in power.
Also Sunday, 15 activists
from the non-governmental
Center for Free Elections
and Democracy were ar
rested while attending a
course for elections moni
tors in the central Serbian
town of Knic, the indepen
dent Beta news agency re
ported. They were released
later in the day.
The group, which
hopes to monitor the bal
lot, has been targeted by
the authorities, who raid
ed several of their offices
recently.
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