In the expanded cinema of Mark Rappaport, crossing film, video, digital media and writing/publishing, voice—of every kind—is crucial. Crucial to the work, and crucial to our enjoyment of it, and engagement with it. From his remarkable run of experimental fiction features in the 1970s and 1980s—Casual Relations (1974), Mozart in Love (1975), Local Color (1977), The Scenic Route (1978), Impostors (1979) and Chain Letters (1985)—loyal fans came to recognize his voice in the abstract, auteurist sense: a dry, ironic tone, a critical finesse in collecting and twisting clichés, a taste for melodramatic passion as processed through a somewhat jaded, skeptical, modern sensibility. And each of these films was, in its own sense, an essay, but under the guise of narrative: an exploration of cultural stereotypes and all the rotten ideological baggage that comes with them, infiltrating our individual minds and hearts.>> - Adrian Martin...
- 4/24/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
In the expanded cinema of Mark Rappaport, crossing film, video, digital media and writing/publishing, voice—of every kind—is crucial. Crucial to the work, and crucial to our enjoyment of it, and engagement with it. From his remarkable run of experimental fiction features in the 1970s and 1980s—Casual Relations (1974), Mozart in Love (1975), Local Color (1977), The Scenic Route (1978), Impostors (1979) and Chain Letters (1985)—loyal fans came to recognize his voice in the abstract, auteurist sense: a dry, ironic tone, a critical finesse in collecting and twisting clichés, a taste for melodramatic passion as processed through a somewhat jaded, skeptical, modern sensibility. And each of these films was, in its own sense, an essay, but under the guise of narrative: an exploration of cultural stereotypes and all the rotten ideological baggage that comes with them, infiltrating our individual minds and hearts.>> - Adrian Martin...
- 4/24/2015
- Keyframe
For decades, Mark Rappaport has been championed by cinephiles and scholars. His distinctively meta and at times essayistic work has screened at major film festivals and art houses around the world. And for years, one of Rappaport's biggest fans was Boston University film professor Ray Carney, who once called Rappaport "a genuine national treasure." As recently as 2010, Carney -- an iconoclastic scholar of indie cinema primarily known for his research on John Cassavetes -- hoped to teach an entire seminar dedicated to Rappaport's films, which range from a period of irreverent comedies released in the seventies and eighties (such as the acclaimed "The Scenic Route") to quasi-diary films produced in the nineties that include the imaginative "Rock Hudson's Home Movies." Over the past year, however, the two men have become intrinsically linked for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of Rappaport's films. Instead, Carney has been...
- 4/10/2013
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
New York -- Art and contemporary culture network Ovation TV is rebranding as simply Ovation and will debut a new look, including a logo made up of five concentric circles, on March 1.
"We've evolved rapidly over the last three years," said Kris Slava, senior vp of programming. "From our original programming to our curated events and series -- this new visual language allows us to adapt an infinite variety of artistic genres and interpretations."
Gaynor Strachan Chun, senior vp of marketing, said the branding is also designed to help the network's focus on offering content that meets three criteria: smart, surprising and fun.
The network, currently in 38 million homes, also plans two new program stunts in March and April to follow the redesign.
"Sacred to Profane" will look at controversial approaches to depicting religion in the arts, including the controversies over Salman Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses" and the...
"We've evolved rapidly over the last three years," said Kris Slava, senior vp of programming. "From our original programming to our curated events and series -- this new visual language allows us to adapt an infinite variety of artistic genres and interpretations."
Gaynor Strachan Chun, senior vp of marketing, said the branding is also designed to help the network's focus on offering content that meets three criteria: smart, surprising and fun.
The network, currently in 38 million homes, also plans two new program stunts in March and April to follow the redesign.
"Sacred to Profane" will look at controversial approaches to depicting religion in the arts, including the controversies over Salman Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses" and the...
- 2/24/2010
- by By Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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