Mark Rappaport

Born: 1942-01-01

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 fictional film-essays include Rock Hudson's Home Movies (1992), From the Journals of Jean Seberg (1995) and The Silver Screen / Color Me Lavender (1998). Many of his articles on cinema have been published in Trafic over the years, as well as in Cinema. The spectator who knew too much is the first collection of his writings. In 2008, his photomontage film was screened for the first time at the Lincoln Center in New York, as part of the New York Film Festival. Mark Rappaport currently lives in Paris.


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Debra Paget, For Example

as Narrator
Released: 2016-03-01

A video essay where the author presumes motivations and insights in a fictionalized biography...

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Tati vs. Bresson: The Gag

as Narrator
Released: 2016-03-21

Jacques Tati and Robert Bresson were very different directors, yet the way they structure a...

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Mark Rappaport: The TV Spin-Off

as uncredited
Released: 1980-11-30

In Mark Rappaport: The TV Spin-off, the filmmaker conducts a guided tour of his work that...

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