Director Mark Rappaport produced this video essay for The Talkhouse, meditating on the different functions the movie screen serves within movies. Titles considered include The Purple Rose of Cairo, ...

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Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. THE CIRCLE CLOSES acclaimed director Mark ...

Reviewing Rock Hudson’s Home Movies in these pages three years ago, I assigned all of the movie’s writing credits to writer-director Mark Rappaport, while including Rock Hudson himself, in addition to ...

“Rock Hudson’s Home Movies,” one of the most original of all essay-films, screens Feb. 13 and Feb. 16, at Anthology Film Archives, in a retrospective of the director Mark Rappaport’s work. (It’s also ...

The fight between the great director Mark Rappaport (Local Color, From The Journals Of Jean Seberg) and Boston University film scholar/Cassavetes specialist Ray Carney has its origins in 2005, when ...

Joan Crawford's close-up in Humoresque. Michelangelo's David and Boticelli's "Birth of Venus". Stendhal was overwhelmed by the cultural overstimulation in Florence, which Graziella Magherini described ...

Mark Rappaport’s clip-anthology takes the position that, for those with eyes to see it, Hollywood is naturally gay. Concentrating on studio comedies from the ‘30s through the ‘50s, he seems most ...

This month’s films include portraits of the actress Jean Seberg and the director David Lynch, plus one of the year’s Oscar nominees. By Ben Kenigsberg The proliferation of documentaries on streaming ...

Jean Seberg (1938-79) began her career playing a martyr and ended it being one. She was barely out of high school when she was plucked from Marshalltown, Iowa, and cast as the lead in Otto Preminger's ...

Muse and martyr, Jean Seberg and her tragic career are reflected and refracted in avant-garde films. By J. Hoberman Jean Seberg (1938-79) began her career playing a martyr and ended it being one. She ...

Mark Rappaport, a native of New York, worked as a film editor before making his own films, including The Scenic Route (1978), Impostors (1980), Postcards (1990) and Exterior Night (1994). His ...