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		<title>PIFF 2012: Where Do We Go Now? (Lebanon)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where Do We Go Now? dir. Nadine Labaki (100 mins) 2/11 8:30pm Whitsell Auditorium 2/13 6:00pm Lake Twin Cinema  Where Do We Go Now? starts slowly. I found myself wondering if this might be a film with an admirable theme but not compelling cinema. It turns out I could hardly have been more mistaken. Where Do We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewsmanofletters.com/piff-2012-where-do-we-go-now-lebanon/</link>
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		<title>Portland International Film Festival 2012: The Salt of Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Salt of Life (Italy) dir. Gianni Di Gregorio (90 mins.) 2/10 6:00pm Lake Twin Cinema 2/12 5:45pm Cinemagic The 35th annual Portland International Film Festival (PIFF) kicks off on Wednesday the 9th. My first thought when the festival program arrived in Saturday&#8217;s mail was to go through it and highlight the films I wanted to see. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewsmanofletters.com/portland-international-film-festival-2012-the-salt-of-life/</link>
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		<title>Drive: A Film by Nicolas Winding Refn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I did not know Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn before Drive, winner of the Best Director Prize at last year&#8217;s Cannes Film Festival and recipient of considerable critical claim. Refn&#8217;s credits as writer and director rather improbably include the TV movie Miss Marple: Nemesis alongside the films Pusher, Pusher II: With Blood on My Hands, Pusher III: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewsmanofletters.com/drive-a-film-by-nicolas-winding-refn/</link>
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		<title>closing out 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thoughts at year&#8217;s end…strictly personal, leaving political, social, and the rest for another day…nothing profound, perhaps of some interest, perhaps not… Only tops of the tallest buildings across the river downtown were visible through morning fog as I ran up onto Hawthorne Bridge. The sun was out and the fog quickly burned away, the morning become bright and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewsmanofletters.com/closing-out-2011/</link>
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		<title>The Skin I Live In: A film by Pedro Almodóvar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend read a review of Pedro Almodóvar&#8217;s new film and thought it sounded creepy. The blurb I read did not draw me in, but I saw The Skin I Live In anyway because it is by Almodóvar. After Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, All about My [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewsmanofletters.com/the-skin-i-live-in-a-film-by-pedro-almodovar/</link>
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		<title>The Project for the Fall Term 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I cannot say exactly what possessed me to take up Ulysses as the fall project. It would be too easy to claim simply that this is a book I feel I should read, or would like to have read, at any rate, though there is something to that. Maybe foolish pride and inner need push [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewsmanofletters.com/the-project-for-the-fall-term-2011/</link>
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		<title>Woody Allen: An Appreciation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Woody Allen documentary that recently aired on PBS in its American Masters series provided two of the most delightful evenings I have enjoyed recently, right up there with poetry readings with Lisa Wible and Di Weide in the 3 Friends: Caffeinated Art series; as one among the cast of thousands, if  you will permit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewsmanofletters.com/woody-allen-an-appreciation/</link>
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		<title>Grappling with Occupy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have grappled with my take on the Occupy movement pretty much from its inception. One might think it would be a no-brainer to embrace mass demonstrations calling for reform of the financial system and an end to the redistribution of wealth upward. Perhaps it should be. Yet I have reservations, and they have grown [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewsmanofletters.com/grappling-with-occupy/</link>
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		<title>Whither Occupy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The weekend passed without riot, rampage, tear gas, and other elements of a worst-case scenario, for which we should all be grateful, as Chapman and Lownsdale Squares were cleared of Occupiers whose stated intention was to remain indefinitely. Occupy Portland organizer Jim Oliver told Associated Press, &#8220;We have stood up to state power,&#8221; as demonstrators [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewsmanofletters.com/whither-occupy/</link>
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		<title>Mozart&#8217;s Sister, un film de René Féret</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;No!&#8221; my companion yowled, voice hushed, outrage palpable, when Léopold Mozart (Marc Barbé) told his daughter she could not play the violin, though she played it quite well, because violin is a man’s instrument, and he would not teach her composition because composition is beyond the capacity of women. Maria Anna  Mozart (Marie Féret), known [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.matthewsmanofletters.com/mozarts-sister-un-film-de-rene-feret/</link>
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