From Mozart in Love (all images courtesy Anthology Film Archives) Rappaport’s films are flat — not just in their affect, but literally. He poses his characters in static medium-shot tableaux in front ...

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, ...

“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 ...

In Mark Rappaport The TV Spinoff the filmmaker conducts a guided tour of his work that explains everything and nothing Rappaport shows himself to be the cinematic ...

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 ...

Mark Rappaport’s follow-up to Rock Hudson’s Home Movies is an even bolder amalgam of free-associational film theory, cunningly outre montage, and deadpan bitchiness. Mary Beth Hurt, an inspired choice ...

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 ...

Since any New York City cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list.

Mark Rappaport’s work is all fake, but his success is definitely the real thing. This former Napan recently earned recognition as a special effects creator from the folks who hand out the Oscar ...

2004 Farmer School graduate Mark Rappaport tells FSB dean Jenny Darroch about the reasons he seeks "hills to run up," the importance of self awareness, and why you probably shouldn't schedule 8am ...