Mark Rappaport
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.
Personal Details
Movies (45)
The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein
Director (Directing)
2023
Rope’s End
Director (Directing)
2022
Martin und Hans
Director (Directing)
2022
Love in the Time of Corona
Writer (Writing)
2021
Two for the Opera Box
Director (Directing)
2021
The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey
Director (Directing)
2020
Last Year in Dachau
Writer (Writing)
2020
Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna
Director (Directing)
2020
Conrad Veidt: My Life
Director (Directing)
2019
Will Geer: America's Grandpa
Director (Directing)
2019
The Empty Screen
Director (Directing)
2017
Private Screenings
Director (Directing)
2017
The Double Life of Paul Henreid
Director (Directing)
2017
Sergei/Sir Gay
Director (Directing)
2017
Chris Olsen: The Boy Who Cried
Director (Directing)
2016
Tati vs. Bresson: The Gag
as Narrator
2016
Debra Paget, For Example
as Narrator
2016
Our Stars
Director (Directing)
2015
The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk
Director (Directing)
2015
I, Dalio
Director (Directing)
2015
Max & James & Danielle
Director (Directing)
2015
The Circle Closes
Director (Directing)
2015
Becoming Anita Ekberg
Director (Directing)
2014
Flower Girl
Story (Writing)
2009
Bratz
Stunts (Crew)
2007
Jean Seberg
Director (Directing)
2007
John Garfield
Writer (Writing)
2002
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Writer (Writing)
1997
Goobers!
Special Effects Makeup Artist (Costume & Make-Up)
1997
From the Journals of Jean Seberg
Director (Directing)
1995
Exterior Night
Director (Directing)
1993
Rock Hudson's Home Movies
Editor (Editing)
1992
Subspecies
Mechanical Designer (Visual Effects)
1991
Postcards
Director (Directing)
1990
Chain Letters
Writer (Writing)
1985
Mark Rappaport: The TV Spin-Off
1980
Impostors
Director (Directing)
1979
The Scenic Route
Director (Directing)
1978
Local Color
Director (Directing)
1977
Mozart in Love
Director (Directing)
1975
Casual Relations
Director (Directing)
1973
Blue Streak
Director (Directing)
1971
The Virgin President
Editor (Editing)
1968
Mur 19
Director (Directing)
1967
Friends
Writer (Writing)
1967
