A Time of Destiny/Bellman and True/High Season/The Moderns/Tokyo Pop

Rudolph's best! (Along with perhaps Choose Me).

Quite intriguing, with great performances, may be a bit "art house" for some viewers

Delicious Immersion In An Artist's Parisian Life and Illusions

Lesley Ann Warren and Geneviève Bujold in Choose Me (1984)

G. Gordon Liddy and Timothy Leary in Return Engagement (1983)

Jennifer Jason Leigh in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)

Geraldine Chaplin in Remember My Name (1978)

Nick Nolte, Julie Christie, Lara Flynn Boyle, and Jonny Lee Miller in Afterglow (1997)

Matthew Modine, Marisa Tomei, Lara Flynn Boyle, Lori Singer, Tyra Ferrell, and Fred Ward in Equinox (1992)

Linda Fiorentino and Steven Bauer in Wildfire (1988)

Keith Carradine and Sondra Locke in Ray Meets Helen (2017)

If it weren't for me, these people would think surreal was a breakfast food!

Keith Carradine

Linda Fiorentino

Wallace Shawn

Alan Rudolph

Jon Bradshaw

A struggling artist is hired to forge paintings, causing him to cross paths with his ex-wife and her powerful new husband.

The Moderns

A quirky little movie about fakery

This may not be everyone&apos;s cup of tea, but it has a genuine, unpretentious charm to it that I found appealing.

Alan Rudolph made this delightful little ode to lies, trickery and delusion on a shoestring budget. The story of a failed painter down on his luck in Paris in the 1920&apos;s who accepts a comission to forge a famous impressionist painting. The film questions what is real versus what is perceived or subjective. In a series of criss-crossing subplots and seemingly random encounters Rudolph has fun playing with the trickery of film to made some sly points about the art forms we hold dear.

The film was shot in Montreal, Canada, standing in for Paris and New York in the 1920&apos;s, with French-Canadian actors playing Parisians... The plot twists include a millionaire art collector publicly slashing a priceless painting, thinking it a forgery, while the fake painting is sent to hang in a New York museum. A Dadaist poet fakes his own death in order to attend his funeral to hear the things people will say about him. Same character, named L&apos;Oiseau is actually an American ex-patriate named Fagelman! In a toungue-in-cheek hommage to people&apos;s perception of the period, Rudolph has Papa Hemmingway hanging-out in all the cafe&apos;s and at all the parties... He is seemingly everywhere, sipping scotch and mouthing tough-guy cliches...

 But the viewer must beware of what he is watching. In a scene where Bujold&apos;s character rides in a taxi with Carradine&apos;s we are treated to lovely rear projection shots through the cab&apos;s back window of impressionist paintings of Paris at night! In another dimly lit cafe scene Rudolph chose to end the scene by panning away from the action to the bar where among the extras in period costume, two punk rockers are watching a hockey game on t.v.

The Moderns: Nick And Oiseau

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This may not be everyone's cup of tea, but it has a genuine, unpretentious charm to it that I found appealing.

Alan Rudolph made this delightful little ode to lies, trickery and delusion on a shoestring budget. The story of a failed painter down on his luck in Paris in the 1920's who accepts a comission to forge a famous impressionist painting. The film questions what is real versus what is perceived or subjective. In a series of criss-crossing subplots and seemingly random encounters Rudolph has fun playing with the trickery of film to made some sly points about the art forms we hold dear.

The film was shot in Montreal, Canada, standing in for Paris and New York in the 1920's, with French-Canadian actors playing Parisians... The plot twists include a millionaire art collector publicly slashing a priceless painting, thinking it a forgery, while the fake painting is sent to hang in a New York museum. A Dadaist poet fakes his own death in order to attend his funeral to hear the things people will say about him. Same character, named L'Oiseau is actually an American ex-patriate named Fagelman! In a toungue-in-cheek hommage to people's perception of the period, Rudolph has Papa Hemmingway hanging-out in all the cafe's and at all the parties... He is seemingly everywhere, sipping scotch and mouthing tough-guy cliches...

 But the viewer must beware of what he is watching. In a scene where Bujold's character rides in a taxi with Carradine's we are treated to lovely rear projection shots through the cab's back window of impressionist paintings of Paris at night! In another dimly lit cafe scene Rudolph chose to end the scene by panning away from the action to the bar where among the extras in period costume, two punk rockers are watching a hockey game on t.v.

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