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It’s the final day of the festival, which is always rather maudlin one—although for those of us who try to cover it, the festival is largely a far too hectic, busy period of time, once things start to slow down the sudden lack of pressure is terribly deflating. Never mind—we’ll have some wrap up coverage for you next week. Tonight’s closing gala is Emotional Arithmetic, reviewed by Jonathan Goldsbie at the very beginning of our TIFF 2007 coverage. He called it a “highly-polished drama” but noted that it “plays out exactly as one would expect and is only rarely revelatory.” Head along to Roy Thompson Hall tonight to catch your last glimpse of the glamour and pageantry of the festival.

No Film Friday again today, as we’re still too busy with the festival A few of the films that played at the festival are out already, with Neil Jordan’s The Brave One, David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises and Julie Taymor's Across the Universe all on general release. Not even new release Mr. Woodcock escapes a connection—it’s directed by Craig Gillespie, director of festival film Lars and the Real Girl.

Today’s Contest:

Today’s Contest:

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve teamed up with the Toronto International Film Festival Group to run a contest each day until the end of the festival for tickets to next-day screenings.

Today’s Reviews:

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No Film Friday today as we’re too busy with the festival, but we can let you know that this week sees releases of some pretty decent-sounding films: 3:10 to Yuma, Shoot ‘Em Up and Hatchet. Er, and also The Brothers Solomon, starring Will Arnett and directed by Bob Odenkirk but apparently dire. Let's Go To Prison wasn't great either. Sob.

It begins! Tonight the Toronto International Film Festival opens officially with Jeremy Podeswa’s Fugitive Pieces, so if you want to start soaking up the atmosphere of the festival head down to Roy Thompson Hall before 8 p.m.

Torontoist usually shudders at any combination of the words "folk" and "rock," but Ryerson Theatre grad Peter Katz has been slowly brewing a successful music career in that hybrid genre since he finished school in 2004. Winner of the CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award and the Grand Prize Winner of Toronto's IndieWeek (2005), Katz just released his first "official" full-length album, More Nights, under the name Peter Katz and the Curious.

Artist Damien Hirst's diamond-studded skull reminded us that we used to live across the street from a lady who kept a magical Mayan crystal skull in her house. Which got us to thinking about other spooky things. So we've compiled a list of ten, supposedly haunted places in the city. Make your own ghost walk and if you do actually see a spirit, please let us know.

9:00pm - Red Road (Varsity 8)

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

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

2:30pm - Velvet Goldmine (Al Green Theatre)

It's not quite an uprising more like a small complaint but an important one nonetheless. "Why are there no Q and A's at the Elgin theatre," Jeremy Barker at Popped Culture asks?

9:00pm – The White Planet (Cumberland 2)

5:45pm – Programme 1 (Cumberland 3) – See our Short Cuts coverage. Featuring Ninth Street Chronicles and Patterns 2&3!

9:00pm – Rescue Dawn (Ryerson Theatre)

Well, with day one done and dusted, this morning perhaps many people will still be sleeping off the opening night party, but for others (not least the staff and volunteers) it been another early morning to get the festival up and running. This is the first full day of the festival and as such it’s heavy with films to join the rush queue for. Let’s see what we’d give that honor to.

We've finished up our TIFF Preview, so today we begin our daily coverage of the festival, beginning with this, our picks for the first day. Or as we should perhaps say, the first night, because the festival doesn’t really kick off until this evening, other than one screening (Kenneth Branagh’s The Magic Flute, sneaking in early). It’s rather odd that the opening Gala isn’t literally the first film, but we guess that’s the way it is!

Busy weekend Toronto. Art lovers have the TOAE, car junkies the Molson Indy and those interested in the ones and twos have the Toronto DJ Festival. In addition to the Toronto eliminations of the DMC Canadian Championships, there will be product demos from Stanton, Newmark and Rane as well as the first ever Serato Showcase which will feature DJ's spinning sounds from their computers. Ain't technology grand. Sponsored by Universal Urban, the whole thing takes place at the Ryerson Theatre from 12 noon to 10 p.m.