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New Goal for Films at Toronto: To Be Seen In the past the Toronto International Film Festival helped to set up Hollywood?s awards season. This year it may be more about solving the industry?s problems. Courting the Academy, Not Audiences A number of documentaries open this week in Manhattan with no fanfare to meet an Oscar deadline. Golden Lion Prepares to Roar as Venice Opens Its Annual Film Festival Competitors from all over the world and a star-studded Coen brothers premiere make up this year?s Venice International Film Festival. New DVDs: His Wicked, Wicked Ways Go West Errol Flynn, Hollywood?s unruly swashbuckler, is also a forgotten hero of the western. At Disney, Blu-ray Sales Team Is a Cast of Characters Disney has put together a marketing campaign using Pinocchio and Snow White to accelerate consumer adoption of next-generation DVD technology and boost sales. Film: Excerpts From the Spanish Diary Woody Allen on how to film a love quadrangle when everyone in the cast clearly idolizes the director. Fred Crane, Scarlett?s Suitor in the Film ?Gone With the Wind,? Dies at 90 Mr. Crane was one of Scarlett O?Hara?s twin beaus and spoke the opening line in ?Gone With the Wind.? Film: Images With Impact, and With a Debt to the Late 1980s The filmmaking Pang twins can always be counted on for a few searing images, like in their latest movie, ?Bangkok Dangerous.? Film: Women (Real and Fictional) Defying Expectations Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith are that rarest of Hollywood commodities: a successful female writing team. Their latest film is ?The House Bunny.? Music: An Actor Makes an Album, His Way Terrence Howard turns to the drama of his music, where he can express himself freely without the strictures of a director or writer. Helping War Widows on Road Ahead A new documentary and a Web site offer compassion and practical tips for war widows. Media Talk: Can Hollywood Help LinkedIn? As LinkedIn struggles to remain relevant in an ever more socially networked world, the Internet company has found a constituency that might need its help. Film: Flush With Cash, Bollywood Glows In Bollywood the motion picture industry remains resolutely star struck, even as special effects have helped to reduce Hollywood?s dependence on big-name actors. Scene Stealer: The Murky Side of Movie Rights The film industry has been buzzing over 20th Century Fox?s claims that it has the rights to the graphic novel on which Warner Brothers is basing ?Watchmen,? its giant superhero movie. Movie Review | 'Traitor': In a World of Extremists, Shades of Gray Add Ambiguity ?Traitor,? a somber, absorbing and only moderately preposterous new thriller written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff, manages an impressive feat of economy. Movie Review: The Rest Was Silence, but Then Came the Sequel ?Hamlet 2? belongs to the school of free-for-all satiric farce whose creators ball up wads of ideas, apply chewing gum and hurl them against the wall to see what sticks. Movie Review | 'Trouble the Water': Surviving Katrina With a Big Personality and a Video Camera Kimberly Roberts, the dynamo at the center of the documentary ?Trouble the Water,? didn?t wait out the storm from her home in the Lower Ninth Ward; she chased it. Movie Review | 'Momma's Man': Back to the Womb to Discover Spirits of an Older, Nobler Age ?Momma?s Man? is a touchingly true film, part weepie, part comedy, about the agonies of navigating that slippery slope called adulthood. Movie Review | 'Crossing Borders': In Morocco, With Worlds to Learn Four college-age Americans are brought to Morocco to join four Moroccans of similar age for a weeklong tour of their country. Film: Serious Pleasures: Season?s Sweet Spots A look at 10 of the best art films this summer, several of which portray an unjust world in which ordinary people are at the mercy of the rich and powerful.