Mark Rappaport Movies

German actor Conrad Veidt is best remembered for playing Nazi Major Strasser in Casablanca. In reality, he was an ardent anti-fascist who left Nazi...

BECOMING ANITA EKBERG is an exploration of how the construct of "Anita Ekberg" became an internationally famous sex goddess as a result of the...

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

An examination of four different films which to varying degrees center on a prop or an object or an item that crosses various characters' lives and...

A video essay by Mark Rappaport, which spans René Magritte and Michelangelo to Bonnie & Clyde. Let’s mask up to rob a bank! But make...