Mark Rappaport Movies
- 2007
Bratz
Bratz5.82007HD
The popular Bratz dolls come to life in their first live-action feature film. Finding themselves being pulled further and further apart, the...
- 1991
Subspecies
Subspecies5.31991HD
Three students get caught in the struggle between a good vampire and his evil brother in the Transylvanian mountains.
- 2009
Flower Girl
Flower Girl5.92009HD
Dr. Evan Cooper is the ideal match on paper and according to her grandmother, Rose Durham and friends, including an equally pushy wedding planner,...
- 2016
Debra Paget, For Example
Debra Paget, For Example3.22016HD
A video essay where the author presumes motivations and insights in a fictionalized biography regarding Debra Paget, a contract player for...
- 1997
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender5.21997HD
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...
- 2012
Goobers!
Goobers!3.82012HD
Tommy has just joined the cast of the top-rated kids' show, "Captain Mike's Mystery Monsters," and is anxious to find out just how the special...
- 2020
The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey
The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey22020HD
Joan Crawford's close-up in Humoresque. Michelangelo's David and Boticelli's "Birth of Venus". Stendhal was overwhelmed by the cultural...
- 2015
The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk
The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk5.62015HD
A video essay exploring the frequency and meaning of that particular prop in a wide variety of Sirk movies. Is it a device that traps and keeps women...
- 1985
Chain Letters
Chain Letters5.91985HD
Nine Manhattanites receive a chain letter. Depending on their decision to either pass the letter on or to break the chain, the various characters can...
- 2017
Sergei/Sir Gay
Sergei/Sir Gay4.72017HD
As a teenager, Sergei Eisenstein signed his drawings with "Sir Gay". Mark Rappaport sees clear signs of his sexual preferences throughout the...
- 1979
Impostors
Impostors61979HD
One of Mark Rappaport's later narratives (which won the Gold Hugo for Best First Feature at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1979),...
- 1978
The Scenic Route
The Scenic Route5.41978HD
An experimental drama that spins the tale of a woman, her sister, and the man who completes the triangle. Told through such fertile sources as grand...
- 1995
From the Journals of Jean Seberg
From the Journals of Jean Seberg5.81995HD
Mark Rappaport's creative bio-pic about actress Jean Seberg is presented in a first-person, autobiographical format. He seamlessly interweaves...
- 2017
The Double Life of Paul Henreid
The Double Life of Paul Henreid62017HD
Paul Henreid, perhaps most famous for his roles in CASABLANCA and NOW, VOYAGER became a star at Warner Brothers during World War II, as the exotic...
- 1992
Rock Hudson's Home Movies
Rock Hudson's Home Movies3.51992HD
In this revisionist documentary, actor Eric Farr re-creates the character of Rock Hudson in order to take a look back at his films. It compares the...
- 1968
The Virgin President
The Virgin President71968HD
The President of the U.S. is suceeded by his naive, wide-eyed son, and his advisors try to take advantage of the situation by planning to drop an...
- 2022
Rope’s End
Rope’s End1.52022HD
A fictionalized biography on John Dall who was in two great movies - Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) and Joseph H. Lewis’ Gun Crazy (1950).
- 2020
Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna
Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna2.52020HD
A tribute to actresses, approaching their presence in and out the screen, humanizing the icons. From the Ukrainian Anna Sten to the French Anna...
- 1990
Postcards
Postcards71990HD
A separated couple try to keep in touch through postcards of typically "American" sights: motels, monuments, parks; but their postcards cross in the...
- 1993
Exterior Night
Exterior Night5.51993HD
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...