Female Directors Make Strides in Toronto (AP) AP - A

Female Directors Make Strides in Toronto (AP)

AP - A strong crop of movies by women played the Toronto International Film Festival, though parity with their male colleagues remains a long way off.

Coppola Pays a Return Visit to His 'Gone With the Wind' for Teenagers
Francis Ford Coppola's revisions to his 1983 film "The Outsiders" invest it with grandeur worthy of both its characters and his own ambitions.
MANOHLA DARGIS

Drawing on Greek Myths to Illustrate a Generation of Tragedy
The first in a projected trilogy by the Greek director Theo Angelopoulos, "The Weeping Meadow" is a beautiful and devastating meditation on war, history and loss.
DANA STEVENS

It's a Dead Scene, but That's a Good Thing
A necrophiliac entertainment for the whole family to enjoy, "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride" marks the director's latest venture into the world of stop-motion animation.
MANOHLA DARGIS