Toronto Film Festival * 2005

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TORONTO, Sept. 14 - The closer the 30th Toronto International Film Festival inches toward its Saturday close, the more difficult it becomes to classify this sprawling, exhausting event. With 256 features from 60 different countries in the program - including a whopping 109 world premieres - the festival has become something of an endurance test for attendees. With so many movies on tap, festivalgoers are sometimes forced into making difficult choices, deciding, say, between watching Charlize Theronplay a mineworker fighting sexual harassment in Niki Caro's"North Country," or Gretchen Mol frolic in her birthday suit in Mary Harron's "Notorious Bettie Page," a frothy entertainment about the 1950's pinup.

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http://nytimes.com/2005/09/15/movies/15toro.html?8hpib