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		<title>More Cinematic Injustices</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written before about a cinematic injustice that several decades later I can&#8217;t forgive. Maybe that&#8217;s why I&#8217;ve dawdled at seeing the updated version of True Grit despite positive reviews and an admirable cast. Now Salon weighs in with its Top 10 of Oscar oversights, eight of which I&#8217;m old enough to remember but doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cinematic Injustice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forty-one years after the fact, I&#8217;m still incensed that John Wayne won the best actor Oscar for his starring role in the ho-hum True Grit, despite Dustin Hoffman&#8217;s mesmerizing portrayal of Ratso Rizzo in Midnight Cowboy. But after watching the trailer for an upcoming Coen brothers remake of True Grit, starring Jeff Bridges in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bucking Horse Suffragettes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As guest curator for a recently opened exhibit, &#8220;Tall in the Saddle: the Pendleton Round-Up at 100,&#8221; I worked with dozens of people across the Northwest. Sometimes the project intersected with the creative work of others. Among them was fine artist Shirley Morris of Bend, Oregon, who&#8217;s making a documentary that I&#8217;m eager to see. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Movie Scenes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommended movies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Graduate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m no movie critic but love the medium. That&#8217;s why my wife and I yearn for a three-movie day. We squeezed in three on the Friday and Saturday before the Oscars. (Each received a top award: best actor, actress, and movie.) Thus my interest in &#8220;The greatest movie scenes ever shot,&#8221; touted on the eclectic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classroom Chaos</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t imagine a more poignant or tragic portrayal of classroom chaos than that depicted in the French film The Class. Fictional but shot documentary style, the story shows a teacher&#8217;s persistent but futile attempt to reach students mired in pubescent rebellion and complex culture clashes. Throughout the film I kept thinking of my school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harmonies and Howls</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night during a concert of earnest and ethereal harmonies, I struggled to keep another sound at bay. Pressed against the stage at the Crystal Ballroom, five feet from Fleet Foxes&#8216; lead singer Robin Pecknold and bathed in his melodic voice, I occasionally heard in my head not him but the quavering wail of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wrestling With Demons</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until seeing Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler last week, I thought only Daniel Day-Lewis could so completely inhabit a movie character. Or Robert DeNiro when he did serious roles. Battling frailties and demons galore, Rourke&#8217;s character makes one ponder the fates of wrestlers once age and countless poundings have taken a despairing toll. He left [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cannibalism and Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Observed]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hard to correlate these two disparate ideas: airplane crash victims lost high in the Andes resorting to cannibalism, and stark humanity imbued with love. But that&#8217;s what played out on the movie screen tonight in the documentary Stranded: I&#8217;ve Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains. After the plane carrying the Uruguayan ruby [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Than &#8220;A Christmas Tale&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommended movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[French film]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, rarely actually, a movie stuns me. Leaves me in awe. Not fully grasping what I&#8217;ve just seen, I want to watch it again and again. That&#8217;s how I feel twenty-four hours after watching &#8220;A Christmas Tale.&#8221; The French film examines the complexities of a dysfunctional, estranged family reunited for the holiday. Typically that subject [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swamps in My Blood</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until HBO&#8217;s True Blood, I can&#8217;t recall a television series with an opening sequence more riveting than the show itself. A foreboding mix of lust, religion, and evil, the montage casts a memorable spell. With each viewing, I&#8217;m drawn deeper into the stark settings. While I enjoyed the series&#8217; first season, which wrapped up Sunday, [...]]]></description>
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