25 years ago, Alan Rudolph’s Breakfast of Champions left theaters as quickly as it arrived, barely making a blip during a landmark year in American cinema save for a litany of negative reviews that ...
Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. In the biggest news of the week, the Sundance Film Festival announced it will be moving to ...
Total control so relentlessly eludes even the greatest filmmakers that it’s the ones who most need near-total autonomy to thrive who get it the least. For most artists of the screen, that’s that — ...
Among the most inspired choices for a 4K restoration this year would have to be Alan Rudolph’s Breakfast of Champions. Despite coming out in the middle of Bruce Willis’ Armageddon/The Sixth Sense ...
The mark of an actor’s career, I think, is what extent their filmography can reflect the time they’re working. Matthew Modine is a prime case: we can point, first and most easily, to leading a Stanley ...
CRANSTON – A lost-and-found wallet on a photo assignment for the Warwick Mall led to a decades-long friendship and, in this election year, an endorsement by all-time NFL leading point scorer Adam ...
Film director Alan Rudolph doesn't do a lot of photo ops at the Four Seasons. His personal, offbeat movies are never backed by the likes of Warner Bros. or Paramount, so he's obliged to work the ...
This week consecrates a major turn in the 50-year career of Alan Rudolph, which began as an assistant to and screenwriter for Robert Altman before transitioning into decades writing and directing ...
Hollywood sneaks exemplary works of audacious modernism into plain sight at the multiplex. Some of them boldly trumpet their filmmakers’ ambitious artistry (think of David Lynch), but others arrive ...