Mark Rappaport Movies

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

After a much-publicized but brief stint in Hollywood, Jean Seberg was selected by Jean-Luc Godard to star in BREATHLESS. It was to become the...

Scenes from New York in the 1960s. Four young people, friendship, jealousy, separation.

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

The screening room used to be a microcosm of a larger world, filled with churning emotions and explosive temperaments. Welcome to the comfortable...