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The University of Toronto has announced that Ramin Jahanbegloo—academic, author, and former Iranian political prisoner—is returning as a professor of political science and a member of the scholar-at-risk program in Massey College.

Hey, remember Nuit Blanche? You know: that all-night cultural art thing a little over a month ago that maybe wasn't all that great. That thing. While the city did a pretty spectacular clean-up job, they've missed a spot: a sign sturdily attached about ten feet up a pole outside the Isabel Bader Theatre at Queen's Park and Charles Street on U of T campus still welcomes visitors to Zone 3, and invites them to...

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It was a record-breaking year at Hot Docs, as more than 68,000 people came to watch more than 200 screenings of 129 films. If those numbers aren't enough, here's another one for you: attendance was up a whopping 33 per cent from last year.

If you aren't all Hot Docced out yet, there's still plenty of fantastic non-fiction flicks to see (including City Idol, of course). Comrades in Dreams, a film about independent cinema owners around the world has been building up great word of mouth (today at 4:30 p.m. at Innis Town Hall). Tonight, drink in the first screening of Milk in the Land (Innis at 9:45 p.m.), a doc about how the world got hooked on the white stuff. At 11 p.m. at the Bloor, Reverend Billy preaches his stop shopping gospel in What Would Jesus Buy? Tomorrow, check out the macabre and comic Seven Dumpsters and a Corpse (11:30 at the Bloor). Saturday sees a second screenings of audience favourite Lovable (2:15 p.m. at the Isabel Bader), a look at love by local curmudgeon Alan Zweig.

So there we were, all ready to write another post previewing the final weekend of the Sprockets International Film Festival for Children, when we realised that the film we wanted to bring everyone’s attention to, When the Show Tent Came To My Town, had already had all of its showings! Darn. So though we aren’t going to do a full review of the film, we’d just like to note that When the Show Tent Came To My Town is an absolutely brilliant Japanese-language film that deals with school bullying and friendships in an intelligent and moving way, and that if you get a chance to see it (even if you don’t have any kids) you should. It’s great.

Sprockets begins this weekend! Yay! Despite not being aimed at us, Sprockets is one of our favourite film festivals in town for what it represents, which is getting kids out to see, discuss and think about world cinema. It’s pretty important if you have kids to make sure they don’t grow up into adults who say “if I wanted to read, I’d get a book” when faced with a subtitled film.

Brazil.

Tonight, The Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto is presenting a lecture by architect and educator Peter Eisenman entitled .

Yeesh; another week, another pile of movies which were at the Toronto International Film Festival. Considering there are, oh, 32,064 or so films at each TIFF we should probably get over this as soon as possible, otherwise every week our column is going to sound the same.

4:45pm - Paperback Hero (Isabel Bader Theatre)

9:00pm - Exiled (Visa Screening Room (Elgin)) - see our Day 7 coverage.

9:00pm – Rescue Dawn (Ryerson Theatre)

Oh man! This week’s big news in films comes from a crazy place called Vancouver??? We know! Torontoist have never heard of it either, but apparently it’s in Canada! Wild! So anyway, it’s clearly going to be an exciting place to be come September, as the famous for being terrible German director Uwe Boll wants to have a fight with YOU. Yes, you! As long as in the year of 2005 you’ve written two articles insulting him (and you’re in-shape, male and weigh between 64 and 86 kilograms) you can, apparently, fight him in a boxing ring as an extra in his big screen remake of Postal, the rubbish and intentionally controversial shoot-em-up from Running with Scissors.

Yesterday at The Isabel Bader Theatre, David Miller delivered this year's Davey Lecture on "Building a Great World City for the 21st Century." Unfortunately, it was far more election speech (and a boring one at that) than anything remotely motivational or inspirational. Plus, he was kind of mean afterwards. So, in lieu of inserting a nice flattering photo of Miller, Torontoist feels it would be more appropriate to include this one, of his face half-blocked by the media circus (CTV, CityTV, 680News, Omni One, CIUT, me, and others) that followed him around. But that's what you get for being boring and mean: you get half a face.

Fellow Torontoist contributor Alison Broverman is currently in Australia which has made the rest of us here at Torontoist HQ a little bummed out and on days like today, very jealous. Fortunately we get a bit of a consolation prize. The Australian Trade Commission has organized the first Australian Film Weekend. Australia's film scene, blessed by distance from the US and a supportive government has had a history of creating good work and of creating even better talent (Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman, Geoffrey Rush, Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Eric Bana and then some). Sadly none of those big names will be around this weekend.

When a movie festival runs for five days and shows over 230 films, calling it 'short' seems a little misleading. But the organizers of the World Wide Short Film Festival have decided to go ahead and use the 'short' qualifer to describe the bigtime, 11-years and counting event. Starting tonight until this Sunday, June 14-19, films like Taika Waititi's "Sons of War," Craig Goodwill's "My Own Revolution," Jeff Moneo's "Plastic Bitch," Monica Rho's "Stationary," Brian Stockton's "All the Teachers I Have Known," and Michael White's "Branding Mupatu" are the highlights. And as anyone can guess from that cut-and-paste job, the only film we recognize here is Chris Landreth's now famous Academy-Award winning "Ryan." But you can find out more by buying tickets at venues Bloor Cinema (506 Bloor St W), Isabel Bader Theatre (93 Charles St W), Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex Ave), and Emmanuel College (Queen's Park Circle). Or online here.

...in the audience as Douglas Coupland reads dramatically from his new book, Eleanor Rigby. As usual, the U.K. cover is some kind of beautiful, the Canadian/U.S. editions slightly less so. But hey, it's what's inside that counts, and what's inside is the same, reportedly so-so stuff. Should you go-go? We don't know-know. Chalk it up to our generational, ineffectual attitude. It's at the Isabel Bader. The price is low low. Or $10. Which is not actually low, but rhymed.