Mark Rappaport Movies

Stars of the 1940s and 1950s, were they cast for their mutual affinities or for their commercial appeal? If and when they were re-starred years...

Mark Rappaport's first film—a study of a young man named Gerald Mur.

Jacques Tati and Robert Bresson were very different directors, yet the way they structure a scene is very similar.

In the Hollywood's studio system, sets and equipment were used over and over again. Maybe this is why movies seem to have a dream logic today. A...

German actor Conrad Veidt is best remembered for playing Nazi Major Strasser in Casablanca. In reality, he was an ardent anti-fascist who left Nazi...