Alan Rudolph

Rudolf (Rudolph), Alan (Alan) (p. 18. 12. 1943), American film director, screenwriter.
Born in Los Angeles in a family film director Oscar Rudolph. Like many eminent masters, . Rudolph made his debut two micro-finance productions series, . photographed in the style of production in British studios 'Hammer': a horror film 'Premonition' (Premonition, . 1971) and a parody film about radioactive mutant monster 'Shed naked corpses' (Barn Of The Naked Dead, . 1973), . the title of which - the mocking allusion to the textbook novel H,
. Meylera 'Naked and the Dead'. Rudolf then makes a sharp turn in the career samounichizhaetsya and respectfully to the role of assistant to the great Robert Altman, is going through in the 70 years of his first period of effervescence. Altman became a mentor Rudolf, . largely adapted the stylistic elements of his artistic method: a dominant focus on the shading of the characters and the analysis of human relations, . occupancy of the film scores a variety of characters, . sophisticated plot twists and polyphonic songs of the dialogues.,
. Altman produced the following two tapes Rudolf, . which revealed the true author's style director, . - Elegantly juggling a frivolous genre cliches and intellectual categories, . their successful melting of enchanting, . implausible, . as it permeated the rarefied atmosphere of the holiday act,
. It is with these two paintings - based on the musical 'City just for one night' by Richard Beskina 'Welcome to Los Angeles' (Welcome To L. A, 1976) and lush melodrama horrors 'Remember my name' (Remember My Name, 1978) - started continues to this day the permanent interchange Altman and Rudolph actors. Next film Rudolf - obsessed pop paranoia road movie, . are called 'Traveler' (Roadie, . 1980), . characters which are driven by a maniacal desire to meet his idol Alice Cooper, . by doing, . however, . meet not only his, . and other music stars - Blondie, . Mita Loaf, . Roy Orbison,
. In 1982, Rudolf removes the history 'of the individual at risk' (Endangered Species) about aliens arriving on earth and infect livestock.
. And then comes the most extraordinary film Rudolf - 'Meeting-return' (Return Engagement, 1983), one and half hours a duel of two aging pop-cultural 'icons' 60-70-ies - LSD guru Timothy Leary and the hero of the Watergate scandal, J
. Gordon Lydda. All subsequent projects Rudolph as unusual and interesting: a musical drama 'By Song' (Songwriter, . 1984) with country music stars Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson, 'Choose Me' (Choose Me, . 1984) about a love triangle of two women and one man; fairy 'Cumyatitsa in thought' (Trouble in Mind, . 1986); astounding story of 'made in heaven' (Made in Neaven, . 1987) about a couple of unusual lovers - the souls of the deceased men and women are not born, . on the vicissitudes of their romance in this and the next,
. Ironically nostalgic retro 'modernists' (The Moderns, 1987) tells about a motley bohemian artistic coterie in Paris 20-30-ies, where can inadvertently run into Ernest Hemingway or Gertrude Stein.
. Then Rudolf from his varied genre thriller - in terms of comedy in the film 'Love in freedom' (Love at Large, . 1989), . in darker tape 'Death of thought' (Mortal Thoughts, . 1991), . in which the heroine Demi Moore, Bruce Willis kills a character, but in the film 'Equinox' (Equinox, . 1993) is one of the twin brothers, . Separated in childhood, . was shy meek, . the other - Mafiosi,
. 'Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle' (Mrs Parker & the Vicious Circle, . 1994) - another story from the life of artistic bohemia, . this time focusing on biography literatorshi Dorothy Parker and her entourage, . Discontinued interesting alternation of black and white and color narrative fleshbekov, . unfolding against the backdrop of filming the original version of the movie 'A Star Is Born',
. And finally, while the last work of Rudolf, again like the previous one, produced Oltmenom, experiencing a new upsurge, - 'The reflection of memories' (Afterglow, 1997) on cross-novels, two married couples.
. Leonid Alexander
. 1971 APPREHENSION / PREMONITION producer, director, screenwriter, story
. 1973 LONG GOODBYE / THE LONG GOODBYE assistant director
. 1973 Dead NAKED SHED / BARN OF THE NAKED DEAD director
. 1974 CALIFORNIA POKER / CALIFORNIA SPLIT assistant director
. 1975 NASHVILLE assistant director
. 1976 BUFFALO BILL AND THE INDIANS, OR SITTING BULL'S HISTORY LESSON writer
. 1976 WELCOME TO LA
. director, screenwriter
. 1978 REMEMBER MY NAME / REMEMBER MY NAME director, screenwriter
. 1980 ROADIE director, plot
. ESPECIALLY AT RISK 1982 / ENDANGERED SPECIES director, co-writer
. 1983 MEETING, THE RETURN / RETURN ENGAGEMENT director
. 1984 CHOOSE ME / CHOOSE ME director, screenwriter
. 1984 songwriter / SONGWRITER director
. 1986 CUMYATITSA In my thoughts / TROUBLE IN MIND director, screenwriter
. 1987 MADE IN HEAVEN director
. 1987 modernist / THE MODERNS director, screenwriter
. 1989 LOVE TO FREEDOM / LOVE AT LARGE director, screenwriter
. 1990 HOLLYWOOD MAVERICKS Executive
. 1991 DEATH OF THOUGHT / MORTAL THOUGHTS director
. 1992 THE PLAYER Executive
. 1993 Equinox / EQUINOX scenario
. 1994 Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle / MRS
. PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE scenario