Mark Rappaport Archives

Unearthing Cinema’s Lost Treasures

By Mark Rappaport | August 16, 2021

Mark Rappaport, whose work is currently the subject of an Anthology Film Archives series, on the joys of making video essays about classic movies.

By Mark Rappaport | January 7, 2020

Mark Rappaport bangs a drum for Rick Alverson's '50s-set drama starring Jeff Goldblum as a wandering lobotomist.

By Mark Rappaport | April 13, 2018

Mark Rappaport is wowed by Lynne Ramsay's long-awaited fourth feature, a film that confirms her as one of our most important living directors.

By Mark Rappaport | February 6, 2017

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

By Zach Clark | May 16, 2016

On Liberace's birthday, Zach Clark writes about Soderbergh's biopic of the flamboyant entertainer, which is about to leave Amazon Prime.

By Mark Rappaport | July 1, 2014

I never liked science-fiction movies. I always thought they were propaganda for a neat, tidy, immaculately designed future...