Meet the Author - Rory Dean
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Above the Line: Practical Movie Reviews- Some Safety Glass Distance (2013) May 11, 2013Writing is in my blood, it makes me feel connected to an often overwhelming sense of disconnectedness. Continue reading →rorydean
- Argo (2012) April 6, 2013So "Argo" should be on your list of movies to watch if you've missed it up to now. Be advised that the thrills come in bite-fulls and the story is much more about an ensemble cast than any one particular player. This has double feature written all over it. Pick up a couple of other movies while you're at it and if all goes South in a hurr […]rorydean
- 629 March 30, 2013This filmic is a multi-layered visual experience that takes place not in the dream-world but along the road that surrounds it. Continue reading →bleuravyn
- I Melt With You (2011) March 1, 2013“I Melt With You” feels like the mid-life rights of passage you've heard about or are living, the runway that many men land and take off from. Gathered for many drinks with the best friends of their lives quickly becomes a dangerous Bacchanalia of doomed ritualizing, darkly lit and disturbing yet familiar to anyone who has ever fallen off the beaten pat […]rorydean
- Female Directors Redux February 27, 2013Reblogged from Above the Line: Female Directors Redux - Women in Film in Hollywood and beyond After reviewing my original list "Female Directors - Above and Beyond a Call to Duty" and discussing female filmmakers with a variety of film aficionados, … Continue reading →rorydean
- Some Safety Glass Distance (2013) May 11, 2013
Monthly Archives: August 2012
Lost in Translation (2003)
If Lost In Translation fails the many it is for the very reason that it ultimately succeeds for the few, speaking to the deepest unspoken desires about our constant war with loneliness in all the rooms full of people of our lives and from the sharp elbows and indifferent faces we find there, touch ever so gently on the fleetingness of this here and now falling down existence to be content with the simple pleasures of being together. Continue reading
Posted in Essays on Film, Movie I've Seen, Movies You Should or Should Not See, My Review of Their Review:, On DVD, Rants & Raves, Speak-Freely
Tagged above the line, American Zoetrope, Bill Murray, Bob Harris, Focus Features, Francis Ford Coppola ., lost in translation, practical movie reviews, rory dean, Scarlett Johansson, sofia coppola, suntory times, zoetrope
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Tony Scott il gigante
Tony Scott loved what he did and became a rock climbing movie maker of stars and never looked back. Continue reading
Posted in Essays on Film, Movie I've Seen, Movie Makers & Shakers, Movies You Should or Should Not See, On DVD, Rants & Raves, Speak-Freely
Tagged above the line, auteur, british director, man on fire, movie maker, pelham 123, practical movie reviews, rory dean, scott free productions, suicide, the hunger, tony scott, top gun, tribute, unstoppable, Vincent Thomas Bridge
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Batman: America’s James Bond
Bond and Wayne are iconic figures that cross in and out of fantasy to reveal our secret desires and worst nightmares, the men who take charge to right all the wrongs in the world in exaggerated, often overblown and virtually incomprehensible ways that somehow manage to fuel our tampered down sensibilities with a pressure cooker release valve. It is this link to that which explodes in us everyday but must be wrestled to order, to the broken people and far away places we need to believe in that we can all come together in the form of supermen heroes that rescue without question and save us from ourselves. Continue reading
Posted in Essays on Film, Movie Makers & Shakers, On DVD, Online, philosophy and film, Rants & Raves, Speak-Freely
Tagged 007, above the line, america's james bond, batman, batman & Robin, bill finger, blockbusters, bob kane, Britain's batman, bruce wayne, burtons batman, christopher nolan, comic book adaptations, daniel craig, daniel craig olympics, dark knight, dark knight rises, dc comics, film criticism, film theory, gotham city, ian fleming, international man of mystery, james bond, license to kill, practical movie reviews, rory dean, schumacher, shaken not stirred martini, skyfall
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