Un amour impossible, a film with Virginie Efira
Memo from the cinema desk: two recommendations. In Un amour impossible (2018) Virginie Efira portrays a beautiful but unassuming office...
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David Matthews
- Mar 12, 2022
- 5 min
Northwest Film Center (1971–2022)
The headline news out of the NW Film Center's 2022 Cinema Unbound Awards on March 8 is that the NW Film Center is now PAM CUT (Portland Art
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David Matthews
- Mar 14, 2021
- 4 min
44th Portland International Film Festival (PIFF44): Closing It Out
Portland International Film Festival, March 5–14, 2021 The film festival exceeded my modest expectations. I saw eleven films in virtual...
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David Matthews
- Mar 12, 2021
- 4 min
44th Portland International Film Festival (PIFF44): Take 3
Portland International Film Festival, March 5–14, 2021 Faasla (Argentina, India | 2020) dir. Priya Sen, Nicolás Grandi (51 mins) Program...
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David Matthews
- Mar 9, 2021
- 4 min
44th Portland International Film Festival (PIFF44): Take 2
Portland International Film Festival, March 5–14, 2021 Bitter Love (Finland, Poland, Sweden | 2020) dir. Jerzy Sladkowski (87 mins)...
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David Matthews
- Mar 7, 2021
- 3 min
44th Portland International Film Festival (PIFF44): Take 1
The 44th Portland International Film Festival (PIFF44), my 24th festival, dating back to 1999, kicked off with the Cinema Unbound Awards...
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David Matthews
- Mar 30, 2020
- 8 min
A little Hong Sang-soo retrospective
If you find that watching a film by Eric Rohmer is like watching paint dry, South Korean director Hong Sang-soo (b. 1960) may not be for...
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David Matthews
- Mar 13, 2020
- 5 min
My PIFF43: closing it out
The international film festival (PIFF43) came to an abrupt close yesterday with the announcement that following the guidance of the State...
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David Matthews
- Mar 13, 2020
- 5 min
My PIFF43: Take 3
This morning Governor Kate Brown declared a state of emergency in Oregon. All large public gatherings over 250 people are canceled...
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David Matthews
- Mar 10, 2020
- 7 min
My PIFF43: Take 2
The 43rd Portland International Film Festival (PIFF43) is in full swing. This post and the next several will be devoted to accounts of...
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David Matthews
- Mar 8, 2020
- 7 min
43rd Portland International Film Festival (PIFF43): Take 1
The 43rd Portland Internal Film Festival (PIFF43) kicked off with Friday's opening night films and festivities. The festival has been a...
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David Matthews
- Jul 17, 2019
- 3 min
I don't often watch zombie movies, but...
I don't often watch zombie movies, but when I do...I remember why I don't often watch zombie movies. There are good reasons to be...
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David Matthews
- Mar 22, 2019
- 5 min
PIFF 42: Take 6...and it's a wrap
Once again the Portland International Film Festival blew by with the blink of an eye. It seems only yesterday we were queueing up inside...
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David Matthews
- Mar 22, 2019
- 1 min
PIFF 42 Index
Asako I & II (Japan/France): PIFF 42: Take 1 Ash Is Purest White (China): PIFF 42: Take 2 Blind Spot (Norway): PIFF 42: Take 6...and it's...
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David Matthews
- Mar 18, 2019
- 6 min
PIFF 42: Take 5
3 Faces (Iran). A young woman resorts to desperate measures to enlist director Jafar Panahi and actress Behnaz Jafari in her scheme to...
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David Matthews
- Mar 17, 2019
- 4 min
PIFF 42: Take 4
Transit (Germany/France). Director Christian Petzold's earlier films Barbara (2012) and Phoenix (2014) were ample reason to make Transit...
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David Matthews
- Mar 15, 2019
- 6 min
PIFF 42: Take 3
The 42nd Portland International Film Festival is rolling headlong into its second weekend. I'm rolling right along with it in the blog's...
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David Matthews
- Mar 11, 2019
- 6 min
PIFF 42: Take 2
42nd Portland International Film Festival (PIFF) March 7–21, 2019 The Load (Serbia, France, Croatia, Iran, Qatar). A quietly nice film...
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David Matthews
- Mar 10, 2019
- 5 min
PIFF 42: Take 1
The 42nd Portland International Film Festival (PIFF) kicked off on Thursday. Among other things this means we will all be spared my rants...
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David Matthews
- Feb 8, 2019
- 4 min
Cold War, a film by Pawel Pawlikowski
I'm a pushover for doomed love. That may explain a few things. I am also a pushover for directors who portray compelling characters in...
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