Person
Mark Rappaport
Directing · Born 1942-01-01 · Brighton Beach, New York, USA
Biography
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.
Known for

Alive from Off Center
Director

Impostors
Director

Bratz
Stunts

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Writer

Rock Hudson's Home Movies
Producer

Local Color
Director

Goobers!
Special Effects Makeup Artist

John Garfield
Director

The Virgin President
Editor

Flower Girl
Story
Filmography
- 2023The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei EiseinsteinDirector
- 2022Rope’s EndDirector
- 2022Martin und HansDirector
- 2021Love in the Time of CoronaWriter
- 2021Two for the Opera BoxDirector
- 2020The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan BeyWriter
- 2020Last Year in DachauDirector
- 2020Anna/Nana/Nana/AnnaDirector
- 2019Conrad Veidt: My LifeWriter
- 2019Will Geer: America's GrandpaDirector
- 2017The Empty ScreenDirector
- 2017Private ScreeningsDirector
- 2017The Double Life of Paul HenreidDirector
- 2017Sergei/Sir GayDirector
- 2016Chris Olsen: The Boy Who CriedDirector
- 2016Tati vs. Bresson: The GagNarrator
- 2016Debra Paget, For ExampleNarrator
- 2015Our StarsDirector
- 2015The Vanity Tables of Douglas SirkDirector
- 2015I, DalioDirector
- 2015Max & James & DanielleDirector
- 2015The Circle ClosesDirector
- 2014Becoming Anita EkbergDirector
- 2009Flower GirlStory
- 2007Jean SebergDirector
- 2007BratzStunts
- 2002John GarfieldDirector
- 1997The Silver Screen: Color Me LavenderWriter
- 1997Goobers!Special Effects Makeup Artist
- 1995From the Journals of Jean SebergDirector
- 1993Exterior NightWriter
- 1992Rock Hudson's Home MoviesProducer
- 1991SubspeciesMechanical Designer
- 1990PostcardsDirector
- 1985Chain LettersWriter
- 1985Alive from Off CenterDirector
- 1980Mark Rappaport: The TV Spin-Off
- 1979ImpostorsDirector
- 1978The Scenic RouteDirector
- 1977Local ColorDirector
- 1975Mozart in LoveDirector
- 1973Casual RelationsDirector
- 1971Blue StreakDirector
- 1968The Virgin PresidentEditor
- 1967Mur 19Director
- 1967FriendsDirector
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