![]() ![]() ![]() But at times, listening to the narration is like being in the company of adolescents who can find sexual innuendo anywhere. Yet as Rappaport observes through Butler, the old films are rich with relationships, dialogue, glances and other bits of action susceptible to interpretation as being freighted with homosexuality. Society at large preferred that homosexuality remain hidden, so did its films. With a narration by Dan Butler (described in the publicity materials as an outspokenly gay actor), who plays the womanizer on the hit sitcom "Frasier," Rappaport's film makes the unsurprising point that at a time when American Written, directed and edited by Mark Rappaport, "The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender" is another of the so-called cinematic essays by the filmmaker, whose previous works include "Rock Hudson's Home Movies" (1992)Īnd "From the Journals of Jean Seberg" (1995). Treatment of homosexuality during its golden age, from the 1930s to the '60s. Mages and opinions abound in "The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender," but genuine insight and reportorial curiosity are in short supply in this film about Hollywood's The New York Times on the Web: Current Film.The New York Times.'The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender': Little Insight on Hollywood and Homosexuality "FILM REVIEW Glimpses of the Gay Life: A Hollywood Perspective". ^ Van Gelder, Lawrence (July 17, 1998).^ Mark Rappaport – Rock Hudson's Home Movies (trailer) -REVOIRVIDEO on YouTube.^ Rock Hudson's Home Movies Trailer (2003)-Video Detective.^ "The Independent Vision: Disney-Wood".^ "The Independent Vision: Snapshots of Mark Rappaport"."The Scenic Route Movie Review (1978) | Roger Ebert". "Medium For a Dead Person: Mark Rappaport Comes to Fandor". ^ Seitz, Matt Zoller (January 29, 2016).^ Low-Budget, Independent Films, 1981 – Siskel and Ebert Movie Reviews.^ The Strange and Sad Saga of How Mark Rappaport Lost His Movies (And What He Can Do To Get Them Back)|IndieWire."BU caught in middle as filmmaker, professor feud". 2021 : Love in the Time of Corona (short).2020 : The Stendhal Syndrome or My Dinner with Turhan Bey (short).2020 : L'Année dernière à Dachau (short).2018 : Will Geer - America's Grandpa (short).2017 : The Empty Screen or The Metaphysics of Movies (short).2017 : The Double Life of Paul Henreid (short).2016 : Chris Olsen - The Boy Who Cried (short).2016 : Debra Paget, For Example (short). ![]() 2014 : The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk (short).1997 : The Silver Screen : Color Me Lavender.1995 : From the Journals of Jean Seberg.1980 : Mark Rappaport - The TV Spin-off (short).Ray Carney considers him the greatest contemporary American film director. Rappaport has been noted by Roger Ebert, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Ray Carney, J. Since then, he published more than 40 pieces, and several collections, including Le spectateur qui en savait trop (2008, in French) and (F)au(x)tobiographies (2013). In 1994, Rappaport started contributing to French film journal Trafic, created by Serge Daney two years earlier. Starting in 2014, Rappaport turned to short video essays on film history, notably chronicling the careers of actors ( Anita Ekberg, Marcel Dalio, Debra Paget, Chris Olsen, Conrad Veidt, Will Geer) and specific directors ( Douglas Sirk, Max Ophuls, Sergei Eisenstein, Jacques Tati and Robert Bresson). Because of this work, critic Matt Zoller Seitz called Rappaport "the father of the modern video essay." The same form was used for From the Journals of Jean Seberg (1995) and The Silver Screen : Color Me Lavender (1997) hosted by Dan Butler. In 1992, he directed Rock Hudson's Home Movies, a documentary on Rock Hudson's homosexuality as seen through clips from his films. Starting in 1966, Rappaport directed two short films and six low-budget features, most notably the Max Ophuls-influenced The Scenic Route (1978), Impostors (1979), and Chain Letters (1985). The suit was later dropped due to rising legal costs, and Rappaport started an online petition demanding that Carney return the masters. In May 2012, Rappaport filed a lawsuit against filmmaker Ray Carney for refusing to return digital masters of his movies which the filmmaker had previously entrusted to Carney to transport to Paris. In 2005, he moved to Paris, France, where he resides and works. Mark Rappaport (born Januin New York City, United States) is an American independent/ underground film director and film critic, who has been working sporadically since the early 1970s.īorn and raised in Brighton Beach, New York, Rappaport graduated from Brooklyn College in 1964 with a B.A. From the Journals of Jean Seberg (1995). ![]()
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