Alan Rudolph
Alan Steven Rudolph is an American film director and screenwriter.
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Defining films
Critical context
Alan Rudolph is one of cinema’s most unashamed romantics, and a distinctively self-reflexive one. Although his films yearn for an emotional tie to the world, Rudolph’s desire to connect with an audience is never at the expense of his interest in the materiality of films, in how the particular charge of a frame, cut, or gesture can spark emotion and self-reflection. “Films have always been the best way for me to communicate with myself,” Rudolph tells us; “Every splice, shot, and line of…
