What Stinks and What Rocks at Toronto Film Festival

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Tags: Various Directors, Various Films, Elizabethtown, Director Jeff Feuerzeig, doesn't need to change a thing about The Devil and Daniel Johnston, for instance, John Hillcoat's Australian western The Proposition, The President's Last Bang

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