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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
Category Archives: Essays on art
Hilary and Jackie (1998)
Hilary and Jackie remind you that it’s nearly impossible to imagine that art is ever easy or easily digested, that art is easily meaningful without the threat of losing it every second of your life before it’s gone forever. Continue reading
Posted in Essays on art, Essays on Film, Movie I've Seen, Movies You Should or Should Not See, On DVD, philosophy and film
Tagged above the line, Anand Tucker, artist, bloggers, Emily Watson, hilary and jackie, Hilary du Pré, James Frain, jane campion, mental illness, movie critics, musician, Piers du Pré, practical movie reviews, Rachel Griffiths, reviewers, rory dean
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The Art of the Work of Selling Your Art
This is the circle of life of art, art the work of the circle of art from imagination to something identifiable, a tangible identity, an object of art that becomes an art object then the art of the work of selling our work is known. Continue reading
Posted in Essays on art, Rants & Raves, Speak-Freely, Uncategorized
Tagged above the line, art, art and commerce, art of the work of selling our work, artwork, audiences, Bay Area Art, creative process, creativity, dissave pictures, how to sell your art, inspiration, mediums and media, promoting artists, rory dean, San Francisco, selling work
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The Mill and the Cross (2011)
As a result, the art film flourishes while the drama film meanders, ultimately slipping from the viewer much like run-on advertisements quietly consumed by the next great cacophony of things – we don’t tire of the film so much as we lose hold of the magnanimous company of art, forced to return to our everyday humdrumity, angrily, where such love of engagement is not only remiss but targeted obsolescence Continue reading
Posted in Essays on art, Essays on Film, Movie I've Seen, My Review of Their Review:, On DVD, philosophy and film, Rants & Raves, Speak-Freely
Tagged 16th century, 2011 films, above the line, ann rambpling, art, art film drama film, Charlotte Rampling, flagman of stress and applied sciences, flanders, flemish painting, Lech Majewski, Michael Francis Gibson, Michael York, pieter bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, practical movie reviews, rory dean, Rutger Hauer, the mill and the cross, unquestionable fires of scrutiny
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Melissa K. Smith’s New Gallery Show: Threshold of Transformation
Prolific artist and multi-disciplinarian Melissa K. Smith’s (Dean) acrylic painting “No Woman’s Land” (not shown) was chosen by jury selection for this year’s Arts & Consciousness Alumni Exhibition at John F. Kennedy University in Berkeley, California. The exhibition “Art as Liminal Space: Threshold of Transformation” runs from November 5th – December 13th. Melissa will attend the reception on Saturday, November 10th, 6 – 9 p.m Continue reading
Posted in Essays on art, Movie Makers & Shakers, Online, Speak-Freely
Tagged "No Woman's Land", above the line, alumni exhibit, dissavepictures, east bay, Holga, John F. Kennedy University, liminal space, Liminality, melissa dean, melissa k. smith, northern california, painting, rory dean, San Francisco Bay Area, threshold of transformation
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Above The Line:Practical Movie Reviews Birthday News Year 2.5
It’s birthday time again here at Above The Line: Practical Movie Reviews and this year comes with another milestone – I totally forgot my birthday! So that being said, we turned 2 on May 18th followed by another big accomplishment on August 7th, 2012 when I posted Batman: America’s James Bond and reached my 200th blog post since starting this whole thing back in 2010. I’ll be here, man, because well, the dude abides writing about my high-colored times, low ones too, marveling at the movies and you. See you soon. Continue reading
Posted in Blu-ray, Blu-ray Elite for Warner Home Video, Essays on art, Essays on Film, Guest Editors, In Theaters Now!, Movie I've Seen, Movie Makers & Shakers, Movies You Should or Should Not See, My Review of Their Review:, On DVD, Online, philosophy and film, Rants & Raves, Speak-Freely, Uncategorized
Tagged above the line, bloggers, Blu-ray Disc, dissave pictures, el cerrito, movie review, movie reviews, northern california movies, practical movie reviews, rory dean, san francisco bay films, United States, warner bros., writer-director
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