Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Alan Rudolph's strange, impressionistic 1986 crime-thriller starring Kris Kristofferson and Keith Carradine gets a welcome re-release. Rating:3
This Distracted Globe (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Synopsis Tracking across a movie studio lot, several stories unfold. Executive Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) takes a pitch from screenwriter Buck Henry for The Graduate Part 2. On his way out, Henry chats with chief of security Walter Stuckel (Fred Ward) about the greatest one take shots of all time (“Touch of Evil, [...]
Virginia Biotechnology Association (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
The Blacksburg Bioscience Luncheon on Tuesday, July 22, features Dr. Alan Rudolph, CEO of Adlyfe, Inc., who will talk about his experiences in starting and building a biotechnology company in the Maryland biotechnology corridor. Dr. Rudolph will...
Jahsonic (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
I watched the 1999 film adaptation of Breakfast of Champions yesterday evening. I decided to check this film - after having read the delightful novel in Spain a week ago - because I considered the novel unfilmable. Unfilmable because of the book’s tone, which hovers perfectly between the surreal and the very mundane. Unfilmable also [...]
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
ReelNews »The Sundance Kid rides into townMichael Dwyer on filmRobert Redford will be in Dublin next Thursday evening to discuss his work in a public interview that I look forward to conducting at Trinity College.Redford's career as an actor, producer and director spans close on 50 years and includes seven productions directed by the late Sydney Pollack. They first worked together as actors in War...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
News: Nouveaux Pictures have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Trouble in Mind on 4th August 2008 priced at £17.99. Written and directed by Alan Rudolph, Trouble in Mind stars Kris Kristofferson, Keith Carradine, Lori Singer, Genevieve Bujold, Joe M...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Film News: Nick Nolte documentary 'Exit' will also bow -- Amy Redford's directorial debut "The Guitar" will have its international premiere at the Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival, which runs July 4-12.
Thanks for the Use of the Hall (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
As discussed in the comments to the last blog entry , I wrote a 40-page monograph on Alan Rudolph back in 1985, which was to be included in a book coordinated with the "10 to Watch" series in that year's Toronto Festival of Festivals (now the Toronto Film Festival). The book project fell through, and the monograph was never published. However, a much shorter version of the monograph was used in a booklet...
Thanks for the Use of the Hall (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Alan Rudolph’s little-seen 1999 adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel received what might be charitably called mixed reviews. Rudolph has always been attracted to the grotesque, and here he dedicates himself to that principle without reserve, stylizing all his performers - Bruce Willis as a suicidal small-town used-car dealer, Nick Nolte as his cross-dressing boss, Albert Finney as writer/philosopher/bum...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
Jon Ponder Pensito Review Apr. 20, 2008 Keep in mind that this is a supposed statesman, the former Speaker of the House, talking: Speaking to Sean Hannity on Fox News Friday night, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told the conservative pundit that “the left wing of the Democratic Party, frankly, kind of admires American terrorists.” Gingrich then went on to say that “they don’t mind at all that Farrakhan...
Movie City Indie (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Writer-director Alan Rudolph is showing paintings at Bainbridge Island's Gallery Fraga. In an email interview with Art Access , Rudolph says of his Washington State home, "Joyce and I have lived on Bainbridge for 20 years... Except for the continuing criminalities of our national government, I hope never to settle anywhere else. Our first dozen years here, we also had an apartment in New York City....
FilmStew.com (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
That’s how the most famous artist featured in a new Seattle area art gallery show describes his thirty-year filmmaking career.
eFilmCritic (Free subscription) | 01/18/2008
In which your faithful critic celebrates the long-awaited release of Alan Rudolph's "Investigating Sex," even if the people putting it out don't seem to feel the same way.For fans of Alan Rudolph, the terminally underappreciated writer-director of such quirky and little-seen movies as “The Moderns,” “Made in Heaven” and “Mrs Parker and the Vicious Circle,” the last few years have been especially lean...
scanners (Free subscription) | 12/18/2007
My favorite documentary of 2007 (which I haven't had a chance to write about yet) is Gary Hustwit's "Helvetica," a look at a ubiquitous typeface that helps you to see the world around you anew. I'm a Helvetica guy....
Winds of Change.NET (Free subscription) | 11/30/2007
Here's something I've wanted to do for a while; point folks to (and invite others to point to) overlooked books, records, and films. Maybe plays, we'll get to that later. I'll kick off with two of my favorites, a film about love and a book about death. The film is ' Choose Me ', by Alan Rudolph, and it's a complicated, adult love film that manages to sum up - to me - much of what modern romance is...
