Alan Rudolph

[Wynton]

How many of you are familiar with the director Alan Rudolph?

His recent films include
-The Secret lives of dentists (which I did not like)
-Trixie (which I did not see, but I believe got good reviews)

Several years ago, he also directed "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle," which I thought was quite entertaining.

And in the 80s, he directed two films I thought were very good, kind of quirky and ignored by most people:

-Trouble in Mind, with Kris Kristofferen and Keith Carradine.

-Choose Me, with Caradine, Genevieve Bujold and Leslie Ann Warren.

Though I really liked these last two movies, they seem to have been totally overlooked.

Anyone have any opinions about Rudolph's films?

[diebitter]

I've never heard of him, and pride myself on the oblique and unusual or outside the main thoroughfare when it comes to movies.

[Wynton]

I just remembered another good movie he did, "The Moderns."

I do recommend people check out some of these movies, particularly Choose Me.

FWIW, this is a review by Roger Ebert

[pryor15]

he did Breakfast of Champions and somehow ended up with a worst-case scenario film.

but, on the flip side, Songwriter is better than you'd expect. it isn't good, but better than you'd expect...

[Wynton]

Here is another review, which refers to Rudolph as a protege of Altman:

edited so that I don't just quote the whole review: here is the review

[pryor15]

wynton,

you probably shouldn't be reposting entire reviews.

[Blarg]

He was huge in the 80's because of Trouble in Mind. He also made Divine's last film, if I recall correctly. Trouble in Mind was really good.

[Dominic]

I really liked Choose Me and Trouble in Mind. Afterglow is pretty great, too. He's a disciple of Robert Altman, and you can really see that in his films. He's never made a truly great film, though. I think Choose Me might be his best.