And it ended well: Danny Boyle’s “Slumdog Millionaire” took the People’s Choice award, Steve McQueen’s “Hunger” won the Discovery award, and the Canadian film prizes were not awarded to either “Adoration” or “Passchendaele”, so that’s something.

Of course, the end of TIFF just means that it’s time to start digging through all the screenings and interviews I’ve been collecting over the last two weeks, beginning with the press junket for “Ghost Town“.

But that’s cool. It’s nice to have an excuse to stay home and work instead of sprinting from the Varsity to the Intercontinental to the Sutton Place and back again.

(I promise I’ll still get some walking in. It’s important to keep in shape.)