Quote from: Kino LorberBorn in Brooklyn, NY and residing in Paris since the early 2000s, Mark Rappaport is known as a trailblazer of the video essay form, thanks to his decades-long career creating painstakingly assembled works that interrogate the cinematic medium through his striking juxtapositions. Rappaport's career began with the 1966 short MUR 19. After making more than a half-dozen shorts in the 60s and early 70s, he made six narrative features in the 70s and 80s—CASUAL RELATIONS, MOZART IN LOVE, LOCAL COLOR, THE SCENIC ROUTE, IMPOSTORS, and CHAIN LETTERS, a series of eccentric, surprising narrative films, stuffed with cinematic references and formal experimentation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaX-uSaz8vw
CHAIN LETTERS (1985)
"A wicked picture of the New York yuppie scene in which nine upwardly mobile Manhattanites all receive a chain letter. Depending on their decision to either pass the letter on or to break the chain, the various characters encounter romance, fulfillment—and sudden death."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6xZZbb7aS0
"This is a collage film that works as a review of film history that revisits Rock Hudson's films in the light of what everyone knows about him, now-essentially that he was homosexual and died of AIDS. Rock Hudson is a unique paradox-the paradigm of manhood on the screen that happens to be a homosexual. The fictional construction of Rock Hudson turns into a text to be read or re-read in many different ways-but all roads lead to Rome. Rock Hudson was a prisoner as well as provider of a strategy and sexual stereotypes. It is a prism through which one can explore the questions of sexuality, the coding of the genre, the sexual role play in Hollywood movies and, by extension, America in the fifties and sixties."
On Kino's site and their streaming service it seems (https://kinolorber.com/product/rock-hudsons-home-movies-dvd) (though oddly Mark Rappaport's hyperlink eventually redirects to re-voir)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s1ghDOMCoo
Kanopy also appears to have a good selectio (https://www.kanopy.com/en/category/27503)n - which might vary depending on region.
Quote from: El Scorchoz on May 22, 2004, 01:23:06 AMQuote from: SoNowThenWhy?
He'd jizz his pants over what you just posted. :wink:
Is Ray Carney the guy who just likes avant garde, no plot kind of movies?
Quote from: SoNowThen on May 22, 2004, 02:33:19 AMWell, I guess, Kinda. He loves Cassavetes. And that's about it. Though he talks about some guy named Mark Rappaport all the time, too. [...]