Rock Hudson's Home Movies
A little too self-consciously symbolic. Was Rock really thinking of his sexual preference all the time? Was his guilt that obvious in his movies? I love Rappaport's reworking of documentary...
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Mark Rappaport
Films
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Mur 19
Mark Rappaport's first film commences with Gerald Mur "studying the cinema" in the form of a blow-up glamour shot of "La Garbo." Then "the cinema" studies Gerald (from numerous angles) followed by a standoff as filmmaker and subject circle one another, dueling with cameras to determine who's watcher and who's watched....Start your free trial to watch
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Blue Streak
An adroit expansion on the notion of a "blue" movie, Mark Rappaport's early short BLUE STREAK contrasts the rarified realm of classical composition with an unspoken assortment of words predisposed to human sexuality, all layered over footage of a room filled with naked women and men. At the intersection of high art and low...Start your free trial to watch
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Mark Rappaport: The TV Spinoff
In MARK RAPPAPORT: THE TV SPINOFF (originally made for public television, though try to imagine such an experimental sensibility on PBS today), Mark Rappaport begins musing on "the movies" and then quickly turns to the subject of "my movies" in this raffish introduction to his work up to the late-1970s....Start your free trial to watch
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The Scenic Route
Making relationships work is murder, sometimes literally, in Mark Rappaport's 1978 feature, a Strindbergian battle between (and within) the sexes that filters melodrama through the gallery sensibility of 1970s video art and myriad other cultural reference points. Coolly self-possessed Estelle (Randy...Start your free trial to watch
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Impostors
A polysexual vaudeville playing promiscuously with melodramatic intrigue, camp and intellectual gamesmanship, IMPOSTORS remains as unclassifiable as it was in 1979. Its slippery "plot" centers on the romance between besotted Peter (Peter Evans) and elusive Tina (Ellen McElduff). She's a faithless bisexual and beauteous...Start your free trial to watch
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Chain Letters
“Life is a river. A very dirty river,” one protagonist decrees in Mark Rappaport's last narrative feature before he embarked on a 1990s trilogy of quirky, highly personal documentaries about Hollywood (such as ROCK HUDSON'S HOME MOVIES). Made in Manhattan during the worst early depths of the AIDS epidemic, this LA RONDE-style...Start your free trial to watch
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Rock Hudson's Home Movies
“It was all up there,” says Rock Hudson (Eric Farr) at the start of this rule-breaking, dizzying assortment of clips from Rock Hudson’s Hollywood career that make up Mark Rappaport’s feature film, ROCK HUDSON'S HOME MOVIES. Employing a narrative commentary from beyond the grave, the film invents an...Start your free trial to watch
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Exterior Night
Using extensive rear projection to remarkable effect (actors, in color, against black and white backgrounds and all photographed in high definition), Mark Rappaport evocatively plays with the themes of noir while contemporizing the stakes involved. In EXTERIOR NIGHT, there is no past. There is no present. There is only the...Start your free trial to watch
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From the Journals of Jean Seberg
An unmistakable master of the intersection between documentary and narrative, Mark Rappaport easily ranks among the great filmmakers of our time. As Jonathan Rosenbaum noted in the introduction to his Cineaste interview with the director from 1996, "Rappaport virtually invented a new form of film criticism...Start your free trial to watch
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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
From the ground-breaking director of ROCK HUDSON'S HOME MOVIES, Mark Rappaport takes us on a hilarious and provocative romp through the hidden and not-so-hidden gay undercurrents of Hollywood’s Golden Years. Dan Butler acts as tour guide as he uncovers (despite efforts to launder American cinema of even...Start your free trial to watch
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John Garfield
Mark Rappaport completed his concise portrait of the legendary John Garfield in 2002, comprised (like much of his filmed essays) from existing film footage of the actor. Exceptionally engaging, Rappaport's extraordinary short contains more insightful observations of its subject than many feature-length biographical...Start your free trial to watch
Genres
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- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / American
- Avant-garde
- Avant-garde
- Documentary / Biography
- Documentary / Biography
- Documentary / Biography
- Avant-garde / Culture Jamming
- LGBT / Documentary
- Independent / Documentary
- LGBT / Documentary
- Independent / Documentary
- Short / Documentary
- Independent / Documentary
- Short / Documentary
- Independent / Documentary
- Independent / Documentary
- Independent / Documentary
- Fantasy / Dream
- Documentary / Science / Linguistics
- Drama / Melodrama
- Drama / Melodrama
- Drama / Melodrama
- Drama / Melodrama
- Documentary / Art / Visual Arts / Motion Pictures
- Documentary / Art / Visual Arts / Motion Pictures
- Documentary / Art / Visual Arts / Motion Pictures
- Documentary / Art / Visual Arts / Motion Pictures
- Crime / Transgression / Murder
- Independent / Narrative
- LGBT / Narrative
- Independent / Narrative
- LGBT / Narrative
- Independent / Narrative
- Independent / Narrative
- Short / Narrative
- Independent / Narrative
- Film noir / Neo noir
- Cult / Hyperreality / Pseudo-pseudodocumentary
- Cult / Hyperreality / Pseudo-pseudodocumentary
- Cult / Psychotronic
- Drama / Romantic Drama
- Drama / Romantic Drama
- Drama / Romantic Drama
- Drama / Romantic Drama
- Documentary / Social Issues
- Documentary / Social Issues
Recent Reviews
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
It is interesting how you do not see the obvious when growing up when the movies depicted here in "The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender" were ubiquitous but now that...
From the Journals of Jean Seberg
A brilliant film that is not just a documentary about the translucent Jean Seberg, but an insightful comment on the victimization of women in society, and of course in films...
From the Journals of Jean Seberg
Confusing. Made to seem Jean said all of this. Interesting yes. I still like the film.
Rock Hudson's Home Movies
Not what I was expecting when I saw "home movies" in the title, but I enjoyed it.