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.

Directed

1. The Scenic Route (1978) — Director
2. Rock Hudson's Home Movies (1992) — Director
3. Exterior Night (1993) — Director
4. The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997) — Director
5. Chain Letters (1985) — Director
6. Local Color (1977) — Director
7. Mozart in Love (1975) — Director
8. From the Journals of Jean Seberg (1995) — Director
9. I, Dalio (2015) — Director
10. Impostors (1979) — Director
11. Blue Streak (1971) — Director
12. Debra Paget, For Example (2016) — Director
13. Casual Relations (1973) — Director
14. The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk (2015) — Director
15. Last Year in Dachau (2020) — Director
16. Postcards (1990) — Director
17. Sergei/Sir Gay (2017) — Director
18. Tati vs. Bresson: The Gag (2016) — Director
19. Two for the Opera Box (2021) — Director
20. Love in the Time of Corona (2021) — Director
21. Mark Rappaport: The TV Spin-Off (1980) — Director
22. Rope’s End (2022) — Director
23. The Marriage of Greta Garbo and Sergei Eiseinstein (2023) — Director
24. Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna (2020) — Director
25. The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey (2020) — Director
26. John Garfield (2002) — Director
27. Mur 19 (1967) — Director
28. Jean Seberg (2007) — Director
29. Our Stars (2015) — Director
30. Becoming Anita Ekberg (2014) — Director
31. Martin und Hans (2022) — Director
32. The Circle Closes (2015) — Director
33. Max & James & Danielle (2015) — Director
34. Chris Olsen: The Boy Who Cried (2016) — Director
35. The Double Life of Paul Henreid (2017) — Director
36. Will Geer: America's Grandpa (2019) — Director
37. Conrad Veidt: My Life (2019) — Director
38. Alive from Off Center (1985) — Director
39. Friends (1967) — Director
40. The Empty Screen (2017) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Debra Paget, For Example (2016) — Narrator
2. Tati vs. Bresson: The Gag (2016) — Narrator
3. Mark Rappaport: The TV Spin-Off (1980)