Direction: Mark Rappaport

Direction Mark Rappaport

Cast Eric Farr

Plot Documentary about the career and eventual death from AIDS of actor Rock Hudson.

Direction Mark Rappaport

Cast Volker Schlöndorff

Plot Tribute to Alain Resnais” “L’année dernière à Marienbad” combined with a documentary about the shooting in the gardens and palaces of Schleißheim and Nymphenburg in the winter of 1960.

Direction Mark Rappaport

Cast Hans Heinrich von Twardowski · Martin Kosleck

Plot Martin Kosleck and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski leave Hitlerian Germany and live a long-lasting relationship. Martin is Jewish, Hans is homosexual. Martin got his first major role in 1934 in...

Direction Mark Rappaport

Cast Paul Henreid

Plot Documentary about the film actor Paul Henreid

Direction Mark Rappaport

Cast Rich LaBonte · Margot Breier · Sasha Nanus · Sissy Smith

Direction Mark Rappaport

Cast Johnny Mez · Victoria Bastel · Mark Arnott · David Patrick Kelly

Plot Shot in high-definition video using rear-screen process plates from classic Warner Bros. films noirs. A young man (in color) searches for his past through black-and-white scenes from "The Big Sleep,"...

Direction Mark Rappaport

Cast Jane Campbell · Bob Herron · Dolores Kenan · Michael Burg

Direction Mark Rappaport

Cast Sis Smith · Melvin Austin · Paula Barr · Peter Campus

Plot In his first feature, Rappaport shows everyday moments, with minimum characters: people eating, going to the movies, watching TV, travelling. With a contemplative style, voice-over, intertitles, Murnau's "Nosferatu" and a...

Direction Mark Rappaport

Cast Mark Arnott · Reed Birney · David Brisbin · Randy Danson

Plot Independent filmmaker Mark Rappaport paints a wicked picture of the New York Yuppie scene in Chain Letters. The story involves nine upwardly mobile Manhattanites, all of whom receive a chain...

Direction Mark Rappaport

Cast Ron Vawter

Plot A separated couple try to keep in touch through postcards of typically "American" sights: motels, monuments, parks; but their postcards cross in the mail.

Direction Mark Rappaport

Plot Mark Rappaport's creative bio-pic about actress Jean Seberg is presented in a first-person, autobiographical format (with Seberg played by Mary Beth Hurt). He seamlessly interweaves cinema, politics, American society and...

Direction Mark Rappaport

Cast Gerald Mur · Teresa O'Connor

Plot Mark Rappaport’s first film—a study of a young man named Gerald Mur.

Direction Mark Rappaport

Cast Charles Ludlam · Michael Burg · Peter Evans · Lina Todd

Plot Three people try to steal an artifact.

Direction Mark Rappaport

Cast Sergei M. Eisenstein

Plot As a teenager, Eisenstein signed his drawings with 'Sir Gay'. Roguish essayist Rappaport sees clear signs of his sexual preferences throughout the Russian's film oeuvre. Numerous asides illustrate how Hollywood...

Direction Mark Rappaport

Cast Randy Danson · Marilyn Jones · Kevin Wade

Plot Spins the tale of a woman, her sister, and the man who completes the triangle. Coolly self-possessed Estelle (Randy Danson), on the rebound from a bitterly terminated marriage, finds brief...

Direction Mark Rappaport

Cast Debra Paget · Mark Rappaport · Caroline Simonds

Plot A portrait of American actress and dancer Debra Paget, under contract for 20th-Century Fox during the 1950's.

Direction Mark Rappaport

Direction Mark Rappaport

Plot The great French actor, Marcel Dalio, who has the lead role in Jean Renoir's THE RULES OF THE GAME, also appears in Renoir's GRAND ILLUSION. In both films he plays...

Direction Mark Rappaport

Cast Will Geer · Seamus Morrison

Plot Documentary about the actor Wiil Greer.

Direction Mark Rappaport

Cast Dan Butler

Plot A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have...