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	Alan Rudolph at Hollywood.com
		Rudolph's dialogue has a snappy, flirtatious quality, and his distinctive "pan-and-zoom" style allows audiences to experience performances that are not built from cut to cut.
		The Rudolph brew had also come to mean cryptic performances by, typically, Chaplin, Carradine and Genevieve Bujold, and a whimsical absurdity that could sometimes sabotage narrative flow.
		Though Rudolph would seem an ideal choice for the material, his failure to capture the satiric spirit of the book seemed to reinforce the notion it was unfilmable, with only Nolte's juicy turn as a paranoid lingerie-lover rising to the required comic level.
	www.hollywood.com /celebrity/Alan_Rudolph/195972 (2472 words)

	Alan Rudolph - Films as director:, Other films:
		Alan Rudolph's films are populated by mysterious wanderers, musicians, painters, and journalists, people who have flirted with success without ever achieving it and who exist in a timeless, bohemian limbo.
		Rudolph's films are like those of his mentor Altman in that, taken as a whole, they are always interesting and consistently crammed with style.
		It is Rudolph's contention that these celebrity scribes frittered away their talents on drink and idle chatter, while the true and lasting writers of the generation (such as Hemingway and Faulkner) were devoting their energies to their work.
	www.filmreference.com /Directors-Ri-Sc/Rudolph-Alan.html (1938 words)

	NEWS \| MAGAZINE \| VOLUME 25-3 SEPTEMBER 2000
		Rudolph deflected any discussion of his directorial technique by stating that he was not conscious of his technique.
		Rudolph is still amazed at the truly experimental aspect of acting, which is at the core of Nolte's creativity.
		Watson said that only Rudolph thought of her as a comedienne, to which Rudolph riposted that Watson made the verbally challenged character of Trixie believable because she didn't stress the absurdity of her speech and had a natural, instinctive delivery.
	www.dga.org /news/v25_3/news_AlanRudolph.php3 (668 words)

	Alan Rudolph Information
		Alan Rudolph (born 18 December 1943 in Los Angeles) is an American film director and screenwriter.
		Rudolph is the son of Oscar Rudolph (1911–1991), a television director and actor.
		Rudolph's own films tend to focus on isolated or eccentric characters and their relationships, and are frequently ensemble pieces including prominent elements of romanticism and fantasy.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Alan_Rudolph (310 words)

	ArtForum: Soul city - interview with filmmaker Alan Rudolph - includes filmography - Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Alan Rudolph's terrain is the shadowland of the psyche, the place where our pathologies find a home--where our obsessions, paranoias, fears, and fetishes ferment and fertilize one another.
		There is something about Rudolph's language--a certain non-verisimilar, almost artificial quality--that can make the words seem suspended in quotation marks; at times it is as if his characters are inhabiting lines almost as the players in a Greek drama might don masks in order to enact fated passages on their life journeys.
		Alan Rudolph: That reminds me of a time in Toronto when I hadn't been able to scare up an interview at the film festival where Choose Me was being shown.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_n5_v31/ai_13929236 (1343 words)

	Lycos Celebrity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		By 1970, Rudolph was writing screenplays for low-budget features and had made several short films set to rock-and-roll hits--an early indication of his concern with musical themes and desire to use music as an inspirational element for his screenplays.
		In his second film, "Remember My Name" (1978), Rudolph gave Geraldine Chaplin full rein to create an enigmatic character study of a woman released from prison to haunt the man who has abandoned her; the film's sense of menace was underlined by a soundtrack featuring celebrated blues singer Alberta Hunter.
		Rudolph then enjoyed his first big success with "Choose Me" (1984), a moody musing on the convoluted romantic entanglements of a bar owner and her lovelorn patrons, including a radio talk show hostess called Dr. Love.
	entertainment.lycos.com /celebrities/celebrity_bio.asp?id=11559&pagetemplate= (723 words)

	12th Philadelphia Film Festival - The American Idependents Award - Alan Rudolph
		As part of our salute to Alan Rudolph we will be screening his latest film, The Secret Lives of Dentists.
		Rudolph was born in the very environs of the movie-making capital, in 1943, the son of veteran character actor Oscar Rudolph, who would go on to direct both movies (Rock Around the Clock) and TV shows ("The Lone Ranger").
		Rudolph continues to make informed, intimate works that are as much personal statements on love, culture and relationships as they are a testament to his tenacity to work outside the Hollywood studio system.
	www.phillyfests.com /pff/2003/templates/rudolph.cfm (519 words)

	A Conversation with Alan Rudolph
		Director Alan Rudolph's roots in filmmaking go back a couple of decades, working as an assistant director under the wing of Robert Altman on films like "The Long Goodbye" (1973), "California Split" (1974) and the highly acclaimed "Nashville" (1975).
		Rudolph: The world would be a better place if there were more Julies in it, but thankfully she's an original.
		Rudolph: You can follow anybody around, I don't care who they are, and their lives are much more like my films than what we perceive to be realistic films.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_Rudolph_Alan_980108.html (1638 words)

	SPEEDtv.com - The Online Motorsports Authority
		Multi-time national kart champion Alan Rudolph raised a few eyebrows in the world of stock cars as he impressed with a strong two-day test in a Bill Elliott-owned Dodge Craftsman Truck.
		The test was held at Peach State Speedway outside Jefferson, Ga. Rudolph’s fastest lap of 19.1sec on the one-mile high-banked oval eclipsed a baseline time run by Elliott earlier during the test, and was several tenths quicker than either of the other drivers in attendance.
		Rudolph was able to turn some 150 laps in the 760hp Hoosier slick shod truck, and was comfortable with the considerable limits of the vehicle from the start.
	www.speedtv.com /articles/auto/nascar/27668 (493 words)

	The Fabulous Brittany Murphy Fan Page - Article about the Movie Trixie
		The day after their premiere, when Rudolph and his cast show up at the Yarrow Hotel to be interviewed, they seem tired from all the press attention they have been receiving.
		The thing that Alan had structured for that character was he had four or five political quotes that the guy would say in the dialogue.
		Rudolph may be blunt, and he may be considered harsh by some, but actors are lining up to work with him.
	www.brittanymurphy.8m.com /trixie_article.htm (2625 words)

	Amazon.com: Afterglow (1997) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Rudolph has never reached the complexity nor the mastery of his mentor Robert Altman, but he has created his own niche: the comedy of characters usually found in urban dramas.
		Rudolph is so fond of such rhythmical gesticulation of dialogue that instead of the above standing out, it could be a random selection from his script.
		She is able to sell Rudolph's silly non-jokes, as when she calls her husband Lucky Mann (which is his real name, ho ho), without letting on if she is loving, mocking, hurt or disgusted by him.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0767803329?v=glance (1788 words)

	Reel.com: Alan Rudolph Interview
		Alan Rudolph is not a filmmaker for all tastes.
		Rudolph's latest film, the murder/comedy Trixie, isn't likely to extend his name past the art-house circuit nor convert his detractors into followers.
		This typically idiosyncratic work stars Emily Watson as a detective who speaks in malaprops and Nick Nolte as the corrupt politican with whom she gets involved.
	www.reel.com /reel.asp?node=features/interviews/rudolph (1091 words)

	Amazon.ca: Choose Me: DVD: Alan Rudolph,Patrick Bauchau,Margery Bond,Geneviève Bujold,Rae Dawn Chong,John ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Considered by most critics to be Robert Altman protg Alan Rudolph's best film -- at least until the celebrated Afterglow 13 years later -- Choose Me is nonetheless probably a hard pill to swallow for mainstream audiences unused to the director's idiosyncrasies.
		Unfortunately, not every member of the ensemble can carry off the stylized acting that is both a hallmark of Rudolph's films and a precursor to the affected mannerisms of early Hal Hartley efforts; Rae Dawn Chong, in particular, teeters precariously between portraying her character's peevish vapidity and succumbing to it herself.
		With Rudolph films, it is all-or-nothing - either his elaborately artificial constructions work completely, or they collapse; either the viewer falls for the artifice (not just in the coincidence-laden plot, but the neon-pink mise-en-scene, with lighting, interiors, choreography, composition and music orchestrated to unreal effect) or you are repelled.
	www.amazon.ca /Choose-Me-Alan-Rudolph/dp/B00005O06R (1154 words)

	Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle . Tucson Weekly . 02-16-95
		Parker and the Vicious Circle, the latest film from director Alan Rudolph, is a behind-the-scenes look at the witty, bitter '20s literary icon that, with its dreary depiction of key events in her love life, would probably strike Parker as unbearable.
		With each negative episode, Rudolph inserts a fl-and-white sequence in which Parker directly addresses the camera and reads one of her famous, harsh little rhyming poems.
		Rudolph and co-screenwriter Randy Sue Coburn are more than happy to give us some insight to Parker's inner life when they feel like it, but more often than not they let us fill in the blanks.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/tw/m/mrsparkerandtheviciouscircle_f.html (781 words)

	Interview - Alan Rudolph and Emily Watson
		These interviews were part of a junket to promote Alan Rudolph's latest film Trixie, in which Emily Watson stars.
		In this "screwball noir" (description from the press packet) an assortment of odd and off characters are thrown together in and around a gauche and gaudy nowheresville casino and an unsolved murder, and nobody is what he seems or says what he means.
		Alan: Well, they don't get their reward do they, except for oneÉNolte said about politicians, that they all want to be assassinated.
	www.filmsinreview.com /Features/Interviews/Int-Trixie.html (1759 words)

	Salon Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In his film of "Breakfast of Champions," Alan Rudolph shows himself to be the kind of artiste Kurt Vonnegut would flip a bird to.
		Now, after three decades in which those hierarchies have been demolished, readers -- and his latest filmic interpreter, Alan Rudolph -- tend to forget that Vonnegut was once a "paperback writer," someone considered sub-literary, whose books were published first in paperbacks aimed at a mass-market audience.
		With this latest film, Rudolph has taken "Breakfast of Champions" all too seriously, turning the sort of insouciant love that once fueled Vonnegut scholarship into a brow-furrowed faith in Vonnegut the great artist.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/feature/1999/10/08/breakfastofchamps/index.xml (1914 words)

	Breakfast of Champions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Kurt Vonnegut's novel is a clunky, preachy, one-dimensional diatribe; Rudolph has turned it into a big, fl comic strip of a movie, and his outstanding cast -- doubtless signed on at markdown prices -- give their cardboard characters depth and ambiguity.
		Maybe the scathing satire -- Rudolph is aiming his heavy artillery not just between the eyes of American consumerism but at the assumptions of ordinary movies, and at the comic-strip way most of us live our lives.
		A red-lingeried Harry, having "come out," winds up on the run from a pair of white-coated asylum attendants, and as for the paradise that Kilgore glimpses in Lewis Carroll mirrors and into which he ultimately disappears, it may be nothing more than his poetic imagination.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/99/10/14/BREAKFAST_OF_CHAMPIONS.html (647 words)

	Moviecrazed
		"‘The Secret Lives of Dentists,’ directed by Alan Rudolph and adapted by Craig Lucas from Jane Smiley’s novella ‘The Age of Grief,’ is refreshingly uncategorizable: It’s somewhere between a marital-discord drama and a mystery thriller, but it also has its madcap moments…Hope Davis has never been more sensuously alive than she is here.
		Rudolph makes the chaos of middle-class life — and the almost anachronistic longings Dave has over the path not taken — the epicenter of ‘Dentists.’ Mr.
		At once abstract and evocative, the movie's opening dentist's-eye view of oral hygiene sets the tone for the inquiry that follows…If the movie is less touching than it might have been, it is not because Davis and Campbell are so persuasively cool in their roles.
	www.moviecrazed.com /critics/secretlives.html (956 words)

	Scraping By
		In April, when Alan Rudolph was in town to pick up an award from the Philadelphia Film Festival, The Secret Lives of Dentists had already begun earning Rudolph some of his warmest reviews in recent years.
		Now, Rudolph may not be in line to helm the next Harry Potter, but he's hardly obscure: The director of such movies as Choose Me, Welcome to L.A. and Afterglow, Rudolph has long been well-respected, if inconsistently praised.
		Though Rudolph normally writes his own scripts, Craig Lucas' adaptation of Jane Smiley's novella The Age of Grief was pitched to him by Scott, who was about to start filming Roger Dodger in Manhattan and was eager to repeat the experience (not least because this was fall 2001 and the city needed the money).
	www.citypaper.net /articles/2003-08-14/movies3.shtml (423 words)

	Breakfast of Champions . Austin Chronicle . 11-08-99
		D: Alan Rudolph; with Bruce Willis, Albert Finney, Nick Nolte, Barbara Hershey, Glenne Headly, Lukas Haas, Omar Epps, Buck Henry, Vicki Lewis.
		The project was a well-publicized labor of love for director Alan Rudolph (Afterglow, Songwriter), who had tried to get this project off the ground for years, and for star (and unbilled producer) Bruce Willis, who bought the rights to Vonnegut's 1973 novel and invested a sizable chunk of his own money in the project.
		Rudolph also adds surrealist touches of his own in the way of optical effects, but they only serve to distract our attention and cause us to wonder about their purpose in the midst of all this otherwise realistic activity.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/austin/b/breakfastofchampi1.html (449 words)

	A Luminous Afterglow - Page 1
		he films of Alan Rudolph, the director of such offbeat indie hits as Welcome to L.A., Choose Me and Equinox (see AC April '93) are distinctive for their unusual rhythms, stream-of-consciousness flow and raw emotionality.
		The seeds of this partnership were sown back in 1984, when Rudolph was looking for someone to shoot his bizarre futuristic film noir picture Trouble in Mind.
		Alan has a very distinctive way of working, a very stylized way of making movies.
	www.theasc.com /protect/mar98/glow/pg1.htm (817 words)

	»»Alan-Rudolph Movie Reviews««
		Rudolph Valentino is absolutely dashing as Julio, the Argentinean son of a French father who returns to France a year or so before the onset of the Great War.
		Rudolph Valentino was one of the most popular actors of the 1920s and this is the film that made him a star.
		Rudolph is a prolific but erratic director (his stronger movies include Choose Me, Trouble in Mind, The Moderns, and Afterglow), but this is one of the ones worth seeing.
	www.vhs-movie-review.com /Aaron-Eckhart/Alan-Rudolph (5305 words)

	Alan Rudolph @ Filmbug
		The son of director Oscar Rudolph, Alan grew up in the film industry, quitting college to learn about filmmaking by watching studio people at work.
		Rudolph began a long and fruitful collaboration with Robert Altman when he signed on as an assistant director on Altman's The Long Goodbye.
		Rudolph most recently wrote and directed Afterglow, starring Julie Christie, Nick Nolte, Lara Flynn Boyle and Johnny Lee Miller, which received the Audience Award from the Aspen Film Festival.
	www.filmbug.com /db/35091 (334 words)

	Critic Doctor (Herb Kane) - Peter Sobczynski interviews director Alan Rudolph (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Even though his "Afterglow" led to a much-deserved Oscar nomination in 1997 for Julie Christie, the heat for the film didn’t help his career much-the subsequent films "Breakfast of Champions" and "Trixie" were barely released and 2001’s "Investigating Sex" is still sitting on a shelf gathering dust.
		In the film, his strongest in years, Campbell Scott and Hope Davis (both excellent) star as a husband-and-wife dentist team whose marriage is tested when Scott discovers evidence of his wife’s possible infidelity and does...nothing (by saying something, he reasons, he would then be forced to act on it).
		In New York for the premiere of the film, Rudolph sat down to talk at length about the film and the ups and downs that have occurred in the pursuit of what he calls his "careen".
	www.criticdoctor.com /petersobczynski/interview/alanrudolph.html (4416 words)

	Alan Rudolph, actor, Endangers Species, Love at Large, Made in Heaven December 18 in History
		Alan Rudolph, actor, Endangers Species, Love at Large, Made in Heaven December 18 in History
		Alan Rudolph, actor, Endangers Species, Love at Large, Made in Heaven
		A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
	www.brainyhistory.com /events/1943/december_18_1943_103392.html (56 words)

	Review: Afterglow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Parker and the Vicious Circle (which, despite its uncomfortable tone, was close to being a conventional movie), director Alan Rudolph has returned to his unique brand of film making with Afterglow, a romantic fl comedy about love, betrayal, and self-absorption.
		While these may not be the most unusual themes to fashion into a motion picture, Rudolph's atypical approach to the characters and their situations makes for an intriguing, if not always pleasant, movie.
		Rudolph has painted an able picture of the non-romantic side of love -- the one that has more to do with tolerance and familiarity than with affection and attraction.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/a/afterglow.html (743 words)

	The Secret Lives of Dentists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Alan Rudolph is a long-time movie-making maverick, a one-time acolyte of Robert Altman who has never achieved the accolades or commercial success of his mentor.
		His films tend to be highly stylized and often have an aura of strangeness or an element of the surreal.
		Rudolph invariably seeks to climb under the surface of his characters and find the individuality as well as the hidden vulnerabilities of each.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies6/SecretLives.htm (592 words)

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