Alan Rudolph

Alan Rudolph
Rudolph in 2009
Born	(1943-12-18) December 18, 1943 (age 81) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	1972–present

Alan Steven Rudolph (born December 18, 1943) is an American film director and screenwriter.

Early life

Rudolph was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Oscar Rudolph (1911–1991), a television director and actor, and his wife.

He became interested in film and was a protégé of director Robert Altman. Rudolph worked as an assistant director on Altman's film adaptation of Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye and later on Nashville .

He married Joyce, a photographer. ^[1]

Career

Rudolph's films focus upon isolated and eccentric characters and their relationships, and frequently are ensemble pieces featuring prominent romanticism and fantasy. He has written most of his films. In addition, he has repeatedly worked with actors Keith Carradine and Geneviève Bujold, and composer Mark Isham (see list of film director and composer collaborations).

Director Rudolph came to prominence with Choose Me (1984), the story of the sexual relationships among a handful of lonely, but charming, people – an ex-prostitute bar owner (Lesley Ann Warren), an emotionally repressed radio talk show hostess (Bujold), and a disarmingly honest madman (Carradine). Trouble in Mind (1985) featured Kris Kristofferson as well as Bujold, Carradine and Divine, in a rare, out of female drag, performance. The film was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. ^[2]

The Moderns (1988) is a fictional love story set in 1926 Paris among well-known American expatriates such as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, whom the film's characters briefly encounter. Expatriate American artist (Carradine) re-ignites his love for his former wife (Linda Fiorentino), despite her marriage to a sinister, philistine art collector played by John Lone.

In 1990, Rudolph wrote and directed the private eye love story Love at Large, filmed in Portland, Oregon.

After the thriller Mortal Thoughts (1991) starring Demi Moore, he directed Equinox (1992), with Matthew Modine playing a pair of separated twins. His Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994), was a biopic of Dorothy Parker, with Jennifer Jason Leigh in the title role.

Breakfast of Champions (1999) was an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's metafictional novel, with Albert Finney as the wildly prolific but terminally under-appreciated writer Kilgore Trout. The film was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival. ^[3]

Rudolph has also turned to painting, and In April 2008, presented a solo show of his paintings at Gallery Fraga, Bainbridge Island, Washington. In 2017, he directed Ray Meets Helen, a love story between two quirky outsiders, depicted by veteran Rudolph actor Keith Carradine and Sondra Locke, in her final film.

Filmography

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer
1972	Premonition	Yes	Yes	Yes
1974	Terror Circus	Yes [a]	No	Yes
1976	Welcome to L.A.	Yes	Yes	No
1978	Remember My Name	Yes	Yes	No
1980	Roadie	Yes	Story	No
1982	Endangered Species	Yes	No	No
1983	Return Engagement	Yes	No	No
1984	Choose Me	Yes	Yes	No
	Songwriter	Yes	No	No
1985	Trouble in Mind	Yes	Yes	No
1987	Made in Heaven	Yes	No	No
1988	The Moderns	Yes	Yes	No
1990	Love at Large	Yes	Yes	No
1991	Mortal Thoughts	Yes	No	No
1992	Equinox	Yes	Yes	No
1994	Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle	Yes	Yes	No
1997	Afterglow	Yes	Yes	No
1999	Breakfast of Champions	Yes	Yes	No
2000	Trixie	Yes	Yes	No
2001	Investigating Sex	Yes	Yes	Yes
2002	The Secret Lives of Dentists	Yes	No	No
2017	Ray Meets Helen	Yes	Yes	No

Further reading

• Ness, Richard R. (1996). Alan Rudolph: Romance and a Crazed World. Twayne. ISBN   978-0-8057-7847-2.
• Flinn, Caryl (December 11, 2023). Alan Rudolph's Trouble in Mind: Tampering with Myths. University of Michigan Press. ISBN   978-0-472-90378-8.
• Rybin, Steven (August 14, 2016). "Rudolph, Alan". Senses of Cinema .

Notes

1. Credited as "Gerald Cormier" ^{[4] [5]}

References

1. Alan Rudolph  : encyclopedia.com
2. "Berlinale: 1986 Programme". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on December 28, 2010. Retrieved January 8, 2011.
3. "Berlinale: 1999 Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
4. "Maria's B-Movie Mayhem: Scream / Barn Of The Naked Dead (Review)". DVD Verdict. Archived from the original on November 27, 2013. Retrieved December 29, 2013.
5. Everman, Welch D (2000). Cult Horror Films: From Attack of the 50 Foot Woman to Zombies of Mora Tau. Citadel Press. pp. 27–28. ISBN   0806514256.

External links

• "Alan and Joyce Rudolph Papers, 1972 - 2011". Finding Aids. University of Michigan Special Collections Research Center. Collection processed by Beth Myerowitz, 2016. ArchivesSpace resource created by Kathleen Dow, 2018.
• Alan Rudolph  : encyclopedia.com

Metadata

• Alan Rudolph  : catalog.afi.com
• Alan Rudolph - Turner Classic Movies
• Alan Rudolph - AllMovie
• Alan Rudolph at IMDb
• Alan Rudolph  : virtual-history.com