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Mark Rappaport

Almost Like Movies – At One Frame a Second

Filmmaker Mark Rappaport on the genesis of his witty, cinephilic photomontages, which are collected together in Book of Dreams.

May 12, 2026

Unearthing Cinema’s Lost Treasures

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

August 16, 2021

Underrated/Overlooked: Mark Rappaport on The Mountain

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

January 7, 2020

Ignore the Title, You Were Never Really Here is an Upsetting, Beautiful Masterpiece

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.

April 13, 2018

Video Essay: Mark Rappaport on The Empty Screen

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

February 6, 2017

Expiring Soon: Behind the Candelabra, and My Love Affair with Liberace and Las Vegas

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

May 16, 2016

Mark Rappaport (From the Journals of Jean Seberg) Talks Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer

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

July 1, 2014