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Considered the “great film” of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, an early indicator of its Oscar potential, Babel is a film which shares notable characteristics with recent successful indies capable of garnering the full attention of Hollywood. Looking like Syriana in its scope, feeling like an international version of Crash, Babel is the interweaving of stories about people in crisis – their crises arising from misunderstandings and failed communication – culminating in a...

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Austinist kicked off our visit to the Toronto Film Festival last fall with Battle In Heaven, a new effort from Mexican director Carlos Reygados (Japon). The premise in the festival program sounded intriguing: a lonely chauffeur has affairs with his employer's daughter and gets involved in a horrible crime with his wife. Despite this and the fact that the opening sequence features a disturbing and frankly ugly hardcore sex scene, it didn't take long...