Alan Rudolph

American film director and screenwriter

Alan Rudolph

Rudolph in 2009

Born|  (1943-12-18) December 18, 1943 (age 79)

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Occupation(s)| Film director, screenwriter
Years active| 1972-present

Alan Steven Rudolph (born December 18, 1943) is an American film director and screenwriter.

## Early life[edit]

Rudolph was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Oscar Rudolph (1911-1991), a television director and actor, and his wife.

He became interested in film and was a protégé of director Robert Altman. Rudolph worked as an assistant director on Altman's film adaptation of Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye and later on Nashville.

## Career[edit]

Rudolph's films focus upon isolated and eccentric characters and their relationships, and frequently are ensemble pieces featuring prominent romanticism and fantasy. He has written almost all of his films. In addition, he has repeatedly worked with actors Keith Carradine and Geneviève Bujold, and composer Mark Isham (see list of film director and composer collaborations).

Director Rudolph came to prominence with Choose Me (1984), the story of the sexual relationships among a handful of lonely, but charming, people – an ex-prostitute bar owner (Lesley Ann Warren), an emotionally repressed radio talk show hostess (Bujold), and a disarmingly honest madman (Carradine). Trouble in Mind (1985) featured Kris Kristofferson as well as Bujold, Carradine and Divine, in a rare, out of female drag, performance. The film was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival.[1]

The Moderns (1988) is a fictional love story set in 1926 Paris among well-known American expatriates such as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, whom the film's characters briefly encounter. Expatriate American artist (Carradine) re-ignites his love for his former wife (Linda Fiorentino), despite her marriage to a sinister, philistine art collector played by John Lone.

In 1990, Rudolph wrote and directed the private eye love story Love at Large, filmed in Portland, Oregon.

After the thriller Mortal Thoughts (1991) starring Demi Moore, he directed Equinox (1992), with Matthew Modine playing a pair of separated twins. His Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994), was a biopic of Dorothy Parker, with Jennifer Jason Leigh in the title role.

Breakfast of Champions (1999) was an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's metafictional novel, with Albert Finney as the wildly prolific but terminally under-appreciated writer Kilgore Trout. The film was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival.[2]

Rudolph has also turned to painting, and In April 2008, presented a solo show of his paintings at Gallery Fraga, Bainbridge Island, Washington. In 2017, he directed Ray Meets Helen, a love story between two quirky outsiders, depicted by veteran Rudolph actor Keith Carradine and Sondra Locke, in her final film.

## Films as director[edit]

* Premonition (1972)
* Nightmare Circus (1974, as "Gerald Cormier")[3][4]
* Welcome to L.A. (1976, also writer)
* Remember My Name (1978, also writer)
* Roadie (1980, also story)
* Endangered Species (1982)
* Return Engagement (1983)
* Choose Me (1984, also writer)
* Songwriter (1984)
* Trouble in Mind (1985, also writer)
* Made in Heaven (1987)
* The Moderns (1988, also writer)
* Love at Large (1990, also writer)
* Mortal Thoughts (1991)
* Equinox (1992, also writer)
* Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994, also writer)
* Afterglow (1997, also writer)
* Breakfast of Champions (1999, also writer)
* Trixie (2000, also writer)
* Investigating Sex (2001, also writer)
* The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002)
* Ray Meets Helen (2017, also writer)

## Recurring collaborators[edit]

Work

Actor

| 1972 | 1976 | 1978 | 1980 | 1982 | 1984 | 1984 | 1985 | 1987 | 1988 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1994 | 1997 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2017

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Premonition

Welcome to L.A.

Remember My Name

Roadie

Endangered Species

Choose Me

Songwriter

Trouble in Mind

Made in Heaven

The Moderns

Love at Large

Mortal Thoughts

Equinox

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

Afterglow

Breakfast of Champions

Trixie

Investigating Sex

The Secret Lives of Dentists

Ray Meets Helen

Diana Daves |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Joyce Rudolph |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Geraldine Chaplin |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
John Considine |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Keith Carradine |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Mike Kaplan |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Allan F. Nicholls |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Harvey Keitel |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Gailard Sartain |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Henry G. Sanders |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Margery Bond |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Robert Gould |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Lesley Ann Warren |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Debra Dusay |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Geneviève Bujold |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Kris Kristofferson |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Dirk Blocker |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Antonia Dauphin |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Campbell De Silva |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Lori Singer |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Meegan Lee Ochs |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Neil Young |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Tom Robbins |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Kevin J. O'Conner |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Michael Wilson |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Wallace Shawn |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Harry Hill |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Bruce Willis |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Glenne Headly |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Lara Flynn Boyle |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Domini Blythe |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Chip Zien |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Campbell Scott |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Nick Nolte |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Will Patton |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Dermot Mulroney |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Robin Tunney |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Berlinale: 1986 Programme". berlinale.de. Archived from the original on December 28, 2010. Retrieved January 8, 2011.
2. ^ "Berlinale: 1999 Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
3. ^ "Maria's B-Movie Mayhem: Scream / Barn Of The Naked Dead (Review)". DVD Verdict. Archived from the original on November 27, 2013. Retrieved December 29, 2013.
4. ^ Everman, Welch D (2000). Cult Horror Films: From Attack of the 50 Foot Woman to Zombies of Mora Tau. Citadel Press. pp. 27–28. ISBN 0806514256.

## External links[edit]

* Alan Rudolph at IMDb
* Alan Rudolph at AllMovie

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Films directed by Alan Rudolph

* Premonition (1972)
* Nightmare Circus (1974)
* Welcome to L.A. (1976)
* Remember My Name (1978)
* Roadie (1980)
* Endangered Species (1982)
* Return Engagement (1983)
* Songwriter (1984)
* Choose Me (1984)
* Trouble in Mind (1985)
* Made in Heaven (1987)
* The Moderns (1988)
* Love at Large (1990)
* Mortal Thoughts (1991)
* Equinox (1992)
* Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
* Afterglow (1997)
* Breakfast of Champions (1999)
* Trixie (2000)
* Investigating Sex (2001)
* The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002)
* Ray Meets Helen (2017)

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