Alan Rudolph
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Director / Screenwriter

(1943- ) Born December 18, Los Angeles, California, USA

Key Production Country: USA

Key Genres: Drama, Comedy Drama, Psychological Drama, Ensemble Film, Romance, Marriage Drama, Psychological Thriller, Mystery, Thriller, Romantic Drama, FantasyKey Collaborators: Mark Isham (Composer), Keith Carradine (Leading Actor), David Blocker (Producer), Tom Walls (Editor), Steven Legler (Production Designer), Robert Altman (Producer), Geraldine Chaplin (Leading Actress), Geneviève Bujold (Leading Actress), Carolyn Pfeiffer (Producer), Jan Kiesser (Cinematographer), Elliot Davis (Cinematographer), Toyomichi Kurita (Cinematographer)

"Like his mentor Altman, Rudolph functions well with tight budgets. Also like Altman, he prefers working with a regular company of actors, a repertory troupe that often includes Keith Carradine, Geneviève Bujold, and Geraldine Chaplin." - The Film Encyclopedia, 2012

"Alan Rudolph, the son of director Oscar Rudolph, grew up in the film industry and learnt about film-making from watching studio people at work. A pioneer of independent film-making, he began as an assistant director on television programmes such as The Brady Bunch and Love American Style before directing two low-budget horror films, Premonition (1972) and Nightmare Circus (1973, under the pseudonym of Gerald Cormier). Rudolph then entered into a collaboration with Robert Altman that would continue throughout his career… Rudolph's most personal work has a dreamlike look about it and utilises elements of different genres, reworking them to produce what could be described as post-modern fairytales." - Pauline Reay (Contemporary North American Film Directors, 2002)

Choose Me (1984)

"Important independent filmmaker whose eccentric tastes have not endeared him to the filmgoing masses." - Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia, 1995

"One of the more eccentrically imaginative talents to emerge from America in recent years, Alan Rudolph makes movies that are hard to categorise in terms of genre and tone: while usually set in a recognisably real world, elements of fantasy are common; equally, they veer between comedy and romance, originality and indulgence… Rudolph's work overall is a very welcome alternative to the pat routines of mainstream Hollywood." - Geoff Andrew (The Film Handbook, 1989)

"Rudolph is the quirky, quasi-independent director of such fascinating after-dinner movies as Choose Me (1984), Trouble in Mind (1985) and the curious Mortal Thoughts (1991), which featured the realistically slumming team of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, in their one and only non-mainstream movie." - Mario Reading (The Movie Companion, 2006)

"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. It is clear that he identifies with his protagonists. Never as trenchant a satirist as his early mentor, Robert Altman, Rudolph imbues his work with a strong romantic streak. At his worst, he is simply trite and maudlin. At his best, he weaves elaborate fantasies as colourful and eyecatching as anything Coppola ever managed at Zoetrope." - G.C. Macnab (International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 2000)