Mark Rappaport Movies
- 2015
The Circle Closes
The Circle Closes62015HD
An examination of four different films which to varying degrees center on a prop or an object or an item that crosses various characters' lives and...
- 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...
- 2023
The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein
The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein1.52023HD
- 1974
Casual Relations
Casual Relations5.31974HD
In Rappaport’s dazzling and bizarre feature-length debut, he focuses on states of imaginative possession and dispossession, demonstrating how...
- 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...
- 2002
John Garfield
John Garfield62002HD
Mark Rappaport's look at the life and work of actor John Garfield.
- 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...
- 2019
Will Geer: America's Grandpa
Will Geer: America's Grandpa22019HD
Blacklisted gay communist 1940’s character actor Will Geer became Grandpa Walton in the hit series “The Waltons”. How so?
- 1967
Mur 19
Mur 1951967HD
Mark Rappaport's first film—a study of a young man named Gerald Mur.
- 1980
Mark Rappaport: The TV Spin-Off
Mark Rappaport: The TV Spin-Off41980HD
In Mark Rappaport: The TV Spin-off, the filmmaker conducts a guided tour of his work that explains everything... and nothing. Rappaport shows himself...
- 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).
- 2019
Conrad Veidt: My Life
Conrad Veidt: My Life12019HD
German actor Conrad Veidt is best remembered for playing Nazi Major Strasser in Casablanca. In reality, he was an ardent anti-fascist who left Nazi...
- 2021
Love in the Time of Corona
Love in the Time of Corona2.52021HD
A video essay by Mark Rappaport, which spans René Magritte and Michelangelo to Bonnie & Clyde. Let’s mask up to rob a bank! But make...
- 2021
Two for the Opera Box
Two for the Opera Box2.52021HD
In the Hollywood's studio system, sets and equipment were used over and over again. Maybe this is why movies seem to have a dream logic today. A...
- 2015
Max & James & Danielle
Max & James & Danielle62015HD
Max Ophuls is the legendary director and two of his favorite actors are James Mason and Danielle Darrieux. Mason and Darrieux were each in several...
- 2014
Becoming Anita Ekberg
Becoming Anita Ekberg62014HD
BECOMING ANITA EKBERG is an exploration of how the construct of "Anita Ekberg" became an internationally famous sex goddess as a result of the...
- 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...
- 2022
Martin und Hans
Martin und Hans12022HD
A fictional biography of Hollywood actors Martin Kosleck and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, both of whom fled Hitler-era Germany to live a...
- 2007
Jean Seberg
Jean Seberg9.52007HD
After a much-publicized but brief stint in Hollywood, Jean Seberg was selected by Jean-Luc Godard to star in BREATHLESS. It was to become the...
- 2016
Chris Olsen: The Boy Who Cried
Chris Olsen: The Boy Who Cried62016HD
In the movies since he was an infant, Chris Olsen appeared in films by some of the best directors of the 1950's. Even though he never became a...