Mark Rappaport Movies

  • 2015
    The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk

    The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk

    The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk

    5.62015HD

    A video essay exploring the frequency and meaning of that particular prop in a wide variety of Sirk movies. Is it a device that traps and keeps women...

    The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk
  • 2015
    The Circle Closes

    The Circle Closes

    The Circle Closes

    62015HD

    An examination of four different films which to varying degrees center on a prop or an object or an item that crosses various characters' lives and...

    The Circle Closes
  • 2022
    Rope’s End

    Rope’s End

    Rope’s End

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    A fictionalized biography on John Dall who was in two great movies - Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) and Joseph H. Lewis’ Gun Crazy (1950).

    Rope’s End
  • 2017
    The Empty Screen

    The Empty Screen

    The Empty Screen

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    A video essay from Mark Rappaport about movies in movies, and how the screen watches us just as we watch it.

    The Empty Screen
  • 2014
    Becoming Anita Ekberg

    Becoming Anita Ekberg

    Becoming Anita Ekberg

    62014HD

    BECOMING ANITA EKBERG is an exploration of how the construct of "Anita Ekberg" became an internationally famous sex goddess as a result of the...

    Becoming Anita Ekberg