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		<title>Those Brontë Girls: Life and Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I seem to recall an interview with Gregory Corso where he remarked that if he found the poet&#8217;s life interesting he would the find the poetry interesting. I believe he was speaking of Shelley, but I could be mistaken, as I cannot lay my hands on the interview to confirm that recollection, and the gears [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PIFF 2010: finale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[27 February 2010
Shameless
dir Jan Hrebejk
Czech Republic
Sometimes I think I feel more at home, more at ease, in a dark room waiting for a film to begin than anywhere else in the world. Can this be?
During this year&#8217;s festival I recultivated some old habits. Finding myself with time to kill before a film showing at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewsmanofletters.com/piff-2010-finale/</link>
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		<title>PIFF 2010: Installment VI Room and a Half</title>
		<description><![CDATA[21 February 2010
Room and Half
dir. Andrey Khrzhanovsky
Russia
I might have missed this enchanting film about the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) had Judith not suggested it. That would have been a loss on several counts. Judith&#8217;s company is to be cherished under any circumstances, and she was the perfect person with whom to see this film, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewsmanofletters.com/piff-2010-installment-vi-room-and-a-half/</link>
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		<title>PIFF 2010: Installment V Woman without Piano</title>
		<description><![CDATA[21 February 2010
Woman without Piano
dir. Javier Rebollo
Spain
Now this is a film, T-Bone. I hardly what to say about it, where to begin, much less end.
Woman without Piano opens with a plain, middle-aged woman, Rosa (Carmen Macha), and her husband, Francisco, in the front seat of his taxi. As he readies to head out to work, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewsmanofletters.com/piff-2010-installment-v-woman-without-piano/</link>
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		<title>PIFF 2010: Installment IV Reykjavik-Rotterdam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[20 February
Reykjavik-Rotterdam
dir. Óskar Jónasson
Iceland
Reykjavik-Rotterdam is a gritty thriller, dark, grim, and brutal. Kristófer is a former seaman out on probation after doing some jail time for smuggling alcohol. Married with two young sons, in love with his wife, Iris, he wants no part of his old life, but he and Iris are beset by financial woes and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewsmanofletters.com/piff-2010-installment-iv-reykjavik-rotterdam/</link>
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		<title>PIFF 2010: Installment III</title>
		<description><![CDATA[17 February
Gigante
dir. Adrián Biniez
Uruguay
Gigante will not be to everyone&#8217;s taste. Nothing much happens. If that&#8217;s a deal breaker, you should probably steer clear of this one. I rather liked it myself.
Jara is a night-shift security guard at a supermarket. A big, quiet, gentle man, he wears t-shirts with the logos of heavy-metal bands, plays video [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewsmanofletters.com/piff-2010-installment-iii/</link>
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		<title>PIFF 2010 Installment II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[14 February 2010
Home
dir. Ursula Meier
Switzerland
Home may not a good film to see with your baby on Valentine&#8217;s Day. For this one it&#8217;s just as well I&#8217;m a troubled loner.
I was drawn not so much by the premise as by the presence of Isabelle Huppert in the cast. She is among our finest actors, with a long [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewsmanofletters.com/piff-2010-installment-ii/</link>
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		<title>PIFF 2010: memo from the front line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 33rd Portland International Film Festival (PIFF) kicked off on Thursday the 11th. PIFF — maybe not the greatest of acronyms, but whacha gon&#8217; do? — is an event I have relished each year since I discovered it in February 1999, my first winter in Portland.
Some cineastes like to see how many movies they can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewsmanofletters.com/piff-2010-memo-from-the-front-line/</link>
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		<title>Poets Who Matter: Keats, Part IV; or, I like to think my soul is not a clod</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The matter of career came up during conversation with a friend I met for a drink on the last Monday of 2009, just before we attended a fine 3 Friends poetry reading that featured Andrew MacArthur, Neil Anderson, and Patrick Bocarde. My friend — call her J. — is casting about for an acceptable career while she finds her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewsmanofletters.com/poets-who-matter-keats-part-iv-or-i-like-to-think-my-soul-is-not-a-clod/</link>
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		<title>Those Brontë Girls, Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For ten years or so I reread one of Dostoevsky&#8217;s four major novels each winter, what I came to think of as the winter project. Each novel gave fresh pleasure with each reading, and the project brought a semblance of order to my generally scattershot approach to things. Other winter projects followed, among them Dostoevsky&#8217;s A Writer&#8217;s Diary, [...]]]></description>
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