Rock Hudson's Home Movies

Rock Hudson's Home Movies (DVD) (*)

$28.99

Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
124 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1992 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Mark Rappaport

Written By:
Mark Rappaport

Actors:
Eric Farr ..... Narrator
Lauren Bacall ..... Self
Cyd Charisse ..... Charlotte King
Marc Christian ..... Self
Doris Day ..... Jan Morrow
Angie Dickinson ..... Self
Kirk Douglas ..... Self
Linda Evans ..... Self
Phyllis Gates ..... Self
Jon Hall ..... Self
Rock Hudson ..... Self
Burl Ives ..... Dr. Brits Jansen
Otto Kruger ..... Edward Randolph
Paul Lynde ..... Mr. Akins
Dorothy Malone ..... Self
Jeff Morrow ..... John Doherty
Maria Perschy ..... Isolde 'Easy' Müller
Paula Prentiss ..... Abigail Page
Tony Randall ..... Jonathan Forbes
Gena Rowlands ..... Els Drager
James Stewart ..... Lin McAdam
Clint Walker ..... Bert
John Wayne ..... Col. John Henry Thomas
Jane Wyman ..... Helen Phillips

Synopsis:

This is a collage film that works as a review of film history that revisits Rock Hudson's films in the light of what everyone knows about him, now-essentially that he was homosexual and died of AIDS. Rock Hudson is a unique paradox-the paradigm of manhood on the screen that happens to be a homosexual. The fictional construction of Rock Hudson turns into a text to be read or re-read in many different ways-but all roads lead to Rome. Rock Hudson was a prisoner as well as provider of a strategy and sexual stereotypes. It is a prism through which one can explore the questions of sexuality, the coding of the genre, the sexual role play in Hollywood movies and, by extension,America in the fifties and sixties.

This brilliant hour-long video transferred to film by independent filmmaker Mark Rappaport is in effect a subversive piece of film criticism that departs from the fic- tional conceit of Hudson himself (represented through clips from his films and by actor Eric Farr) speaking from beyond the grave about his homosexuality and what this did or didn't have to do with his countless heterosexual screen roles. [...] Rappaport plays his new brand of film criticism like a grand organ. Showing us a way to talk back to the movie mythologies that influence and often corrupt us, even to the point of poisoning our dreams, he suggests that we don't have to be million- aires or commandeer a television network to enter into a dialogue with the crushing Hollywood machine.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 23 April, 2020.

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