Mark Rappaport Movies

  • 2015
    The Circle Closes

    The Circle Closes

    The Circle Closes

    62015HD

    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...

    The Circle Closes
  • 2017
    Sergei/Sir Gay

    Sergei/Sir Gay

    Sergei/Sir Gay

    4.72017HD

    As a teenager, Sergei Eisenstein signed his drawings with "Sir Gay". Mark Rappaport sees clear signs of his sexual preferences throughout the...

    Sergei/Sir Gay
  • 2023
    The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein

    The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein

    The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein

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    The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein
  • 1974
    Casual Relations

    Casual Relations

    Casual Relations

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    In Rappaport’s dazzling and bizarre feature-length debut, he focuses on states of imaginative possession and dispossession, demonstrating how...

    Casual Relations
  • 2015
    The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk

    The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk

    The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk

    5.62015HD

    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...

    The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk
  • 2002
    John Garfield

    John Garfield

    John Garfield

    62002HD

    Mark Rappaport's look at the life and work of actor John Garfield.

    John Garfield
  • 1990
    Postcards

    Postcards

    Postcards

    71990HD

    A separated couple try to keep in touch through postcards of typically "American" sights: motels, monuments, parks; but their postcards cross in the...

    Postcards
  • 2019
    Will Geer: America's Grandpa

    Will Geer: America's Grandpa

    Will Geer: America's Grandpa

    22019HD

    Blacklisted gay communist 1940’s character actor Will Geer became Grandpa Walton in the hit series “The Waltons”. How so?

    Will Geer: America's Grandpa
  • 1967
    Mur 19

    Mur 19

    Mur 19

    51967HD

    Mark Rappaport's first film—a study of a young man named Gerald Mur.

    Mur 19
  • 1980
    Mark Rappaport: The TV Spin-Off

    Mark Rappaport: The TV Spin-Off

    Mark Rappaport: The TV Spin-Off

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    In Mark Rappaport: The TV Spin-off, the filmmaker conducts a guided tour of his work that explains everything... and nothing. Rappaport shows himself...

    Mark Rappaport: The TV Spin-Off
  • 2022
    Rope’s End

    Rope’s End

    Rope’s End

    1.52022HD

    A fictionalized biography on John Dall who was in two great movies - Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) and Joseph H. Lewis’ Gun Crazy (1950).

    Rope’s End
  • 2019
    Conrad Veidt: My Life

    Conrad Veidt: My Life

    Conrad Veidt: My Life

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    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...

    Conrad Veidt: My Life
  • 2021
    Love in the Time of Corona

    Love in the Time of Corona

    Love in the Time of Corona

    2.52021HD

    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...

    Love in the Time of Corona
  • 2021
    Two for the Opera Box

    Two for the Opera Box

    Two for the Opera Box

    2.52021HD

    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...

    Two for the Opera Box
  • 2015
    Max & James & Danielle

    Max & James & Danielle

    Max & James & Danielle

    62015HD

    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...

    Max & James & Danielle
  • 2014
    Becoming Anita Ekberg

    Becoming Anita Ekberg

    Becoming Anita Ekberg

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    BECOMING ANITA EKBERG is an exploration of how the construct of "Anita Ekberg" became an internationally famous sex goddess as a result of the...

    Becoming Anita Ekberg
  • 2020
    The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey

    The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey

    The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey

    22020HD

    Joan Crawford's close-up in Humoresque. Michelangelo's David and Boticelli's "Birth of Venus". Stendhal was overwhelmed by the cultural...

    The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey
  • 2022
    Martin und Hans

    Martin und Hans

    Martin und Hans

    12022HD

    A fictional biography of Hollywood actors Martin Kosleck and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, both of whom fled Hitler-era Germany to live a...

    Martin und Hans
  • 2007
    Jean Seberg

    Jean Seberg

    Jean Seberg

    9.52007HD

    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...

    Jean Seberg
  • 2016
    Chris Olsen: The Boy Who Cried

    Chris Olsen: The Boy Who Cried

    Chris Olsen: The Boy Who Cried

    62016HD

    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...

    Chris Olsen: The Boy Who Cried