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Local Color
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Scenic Route
: :Definitely not for everyone's taste, this comic modern retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice shows filmmaker Mark Rappaport at the height of his powers, a movie the British Film Institute recognized as the Most Original and Innovative Film of 1978. Estelle (Randy Danson) recounts scenes from her romantic life from entries written in her journal. Her sister (Claudia Weill) comes to stay with her after being released from an insane asylum. Paul enters their lives, and meanwhile a maniac slasher is on the loose in the city. It sounds like a melodrama, and to ...
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Rock Hudson's Home Movies
: :Definitely not for everyone's taste, this comic modern retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice shows filmmaker Mark Rappaport at the height of his powers, a movie the British Film Institute recognized as the Most Original and Innovative Film of 1978. Estelle (Randy Danson) recounts scenes from her romantic life from entries written in her journal. Her sister (Claudia Weill) comes to stay with her after being released from an insane asylum. Paul enters their lives, and meanwhile a maniac slasher is on the loose in the city. It sounds like a melodrama, and to ...
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Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
: :Definitely not for everyone's taste, this comic modern retelling of Orpheus and Eurydice shows filmmaker Mark Rappaport at the height of his powers, a movie the British Film Institute recognized as the Most Original and Innovative Film of 1978. Estelle (Randy Danson) recounts scenes from her romantic life from entries written in her journal. Her sister (Claudia Weill) comes to stay with her after being released from an insane asylum. Paul enters their lives, and meanwhile a maniac slasher is on the loose in the city. It sounds like a melodrama, and to ...
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From the Journals of Jean Seberg
: :Mark Rappaport, best known as the writer-director of Rock Hudson's Home Movies, pushes the envelope once more with a provocative film that defies convention. Part memoir, part cinematic essay, and part social critique, this is slyly disguised as a documentary. A searing Mary Beth Hurt stars as the cynical and witty ghost of actress Jean Seberg. As much about the American value system as Seberg's tragic life, Journals is a little too convoluted in a few too many places. However, Rappaport does bring his stream of consciousness full circle by the film's ending ...
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Casual Relations
: :Mark Rappaport, best known as the writer-director of Rock Hudson's Home Movies, pushes the envelope once more with a provocative film that defies convention. Part memoir, part cinematic essay, and part social critique, this is slyly disguised as a documentary. A searing Mary Beth Hurt stars as the cynical and witty ghost of actress Jean Seberg. As much about the American value system as Seberg's tragic life, Journals is a little too convoluted in a few too many places. However, Rappaport does bring his stream of consciousness full circle by the film's ending ...
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Rock Hudson's Home Movies
: :Mark Rappaport, best known as the writer-director of Rock Hudson's Home Movies, pushes the envelope once more with a provocative film that defies convention. Part memoir, part cinematic essay, and part social critique, this is slyly disguised as a documentary. A searing Mary Beth Hurt stars as the cynical and witty ghost of actress Jean Seberg. As much about the American value system as Seberg's tragic life, Journals is a little too convoluted in a few too many places. However, Rappaport does bring his stream of consciousness full circle by the film's ending ...
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Rock Hudson's Home Movies
: :Mark Rappaport, best known as the writer-director of Rock Hudson's Home Movies, pushes the envelope once more with a provocative film that defies convention. Part memoir, part cinematic essay, and part social critique, this is slyly disguised as a documentary. A searing Mary Beth Hurt stars as the cynical and witty ghost of actress Jean Seberg. As much about the American value system as Seberg's tragic life, Journals is a little too convoluted in a few too many places. However, Rappaport does bring his stream of consciousness full circle by the film's ending ...
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Chain Letters
: :Is a paranoid a person with a persecution complex or a too-active imagination? Or perhaps it's just a person who has all the facts! Don't miss this sinister and brilliant piece of subversive soap opera written and directed by Mark Rappaport, his last feature before a decade of filming biographical deconstructions (Rock Hudson's Home Movies, From the Journals of Jean Seberg). To the point of hysteria, Rappaport spins such an intricate yarn of incestuous relationships that a plot summary is nearly impossible. On the other hand, the megalomaniacal characters on display are so ...
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Mozart in Love
: :Is a paranoid a person with a persecution complex or a too-active imagination? Or perhaps it's just a person who has all the facts! Don't miss this sinister and brilliant piece of subversive soap opera written and directed by Mark Rappaport, his last feature before a decade of filming biographical deconstructions (Rock Hudson's Home Movies, From the Journals of Jean Seberg). To the point of hysteria, Rappaport spins such an intricate yarn of incestuous relationships that a plot summary is nearly impossible. On the other hand, the megalomaniacal characters on display are so ...
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