Tag Archives: jean-luc godard

Filmmaker and Film Critic makes Movie Blogger Efforts

Posted on July 10, 2013 by rorydean

Writing about movies is about as close to making them as I can get right now and I think it puts me in a unique position to share my thoughts as a bridge for others to fall in love with the how as much as the possibility of movies. Continue reading →

Posted in Essays on art, Essays on Film, Movie I've Seen, Movie Makers & Shakers, Movies You Should or Should Not See, On DVD, Online, philosophy and film, Rants & Raves, Speak-Freely, Uncategorized | Tagged above the line, Academy of Art University, Arts, Dukes of Hazzard, east bay, Film, film critic, film criticism, filmmaker, Filmmaking, jean-luc godard, la maniere, movie, movie blogger, northern california, once beautiful past, practical movie reviews, rory dean, San Francisco | 7 Comments

Rory Dean featured in “Splice” magazine

Posted on September 30, 2012 by bleuravyn

“..Rory Dean’s tribute to Godard does an excellent job in emulating Raoul Coutard’s signature camera angles from behind the characters, indoor panoramas and plain-air portraits, like the ones framing a beautiful girl on the beach through the lens of Eddie’s camera. What makes this film truly Godardian, however, is the postproduction intervention in its black and white colour regime (amounting to what the director calls a “whimsical palate”) and in its sound design.” Continue reading →

Posted in Essays on art, Essays on Film, Guest Editors, Movie Makers & Shakers, On DVD, Online, philosophy and film | Tagged 2010 movies, 80th birthday celebration, Bay Area, black & white cinematography, dissave pictures, experimental, filmpool collective, independent films, jean-luc godard, melissa k. smith, rory dean, San Francisco, saskatchewan film festival, short subject, splice magazine | 3 Comments

La Maniere Que Nous Disons Au Revoir – The Way We Say Goodbye

Posted on November 2, 2010 by rorydean

A young man in a dead-end job takes in an unlikely roommate but soon realizes there is more to their relationship than expected as a failed robbery attempt, an unsuccessful romance and past indiscretions threaten to bring their world crashing down around them. Continue reading →

Posted in In Theaters Now!, Movie I've Seen, Movies You Should or Should Not See, On DVD | Tagged bay area films, charles kamzelski, filmpool collective, godard project, indie films, james asher, jean-luc godard, jonathan pidgeon, la maniere que nous dison au revoir, la maniere que nous disons au revoir, melissa k. smith, monika padilla, rory dean, san francisco short films, saskatchewan film festival, the way we say goodbye, tony grat | 4 Comments

Jean-Luc Godard, Je suis toujours ici “I’m still here.”

Posted on September 27, 2010 by rorydean

Jean-Luc Godard is as much the beloved, curmudgeon grandfather character of cinema’s past commenting on the failures of films since, as he is the enigmatic, enthusiastic youngster holding a strip of celluloid or perhaps gazing at said strip now digitized on an overly large cinema display for inspection of every frame, examining and contemplating the next jump-cut or boisterous leading man with a hat to tip and the smug looks to go along with it. Continue reading →