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
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Birth of a Nation (1915) The Mighty Spectacle
Birth of a Nation (1915) turned ninety-five years old this past March. For many there is no celebration in that. For some there is pause, considerable consternation and ultimately a resounding sigh of sadness that such an undeniably momentous event in cinema history is riddled by deplorable, troubling themes that are depicted in what some have called the first American feature-length film. Continue reading
Posted in Essays on Film, Movie I've Seen, Movies You Should or Should Not See, On DVD, philosophy and film
Tagged above the line, agitprop, birth of a nation, brannavan gnanalingam, center for history and new media, charlie chaplin, d.w griffith, father of film, film criticism, film theory, films of 1915, hollywoods beginnings, kkk, mary pickford, movie reviews, pioneering film techniques, practical movie reviews, racist filmmakers, rory dean, thomas cripps
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