Alan Rudolph — Director (19)

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Terror Circus (1974)
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other title: 噩梦马戏团 / Barn of the Naked Dead …
Three showgirls on their way to Las Vegas have car trouble and are stuck all night out in the desert. The next morning cheerful Andre offers them help in fixing their car. However, Andre is really a maniac with a lot of family problems; his mother ran out on him when he was a child so now he keeps kidnapped women chained up in his barn and trains them to perform circus tricks.

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Songwriter (1984)
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other title: ソングライター / Der Songschreiber …
Doc Jenkins may be one of country music's most beloved stars, but his private life is a wreck. He's split up with his longtime partner, Blackie Buck, a country outlaw with a heart of gold. Doc's singer-wife, Honey Carder, has thrown him out of the house. And now he's gotten involved with a sleazy music manager, Rodeo Rocky, who's out to steal his material. Teaming up with Blackie, Doc takes drastic measures to win back his family and reclaim his songs.

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Mortal Thoughts (1991)
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other title: 위험한 상상 / Pensamentos Mortais …
A loathsome man ends up dead, but it's not clear who's to blame. If ever a person got what he deserved, it's James Urbanksi, an abusive drunk who steals from his wife, Joyce, and promises her close friend Cynthia Kellogg that she'll be the next target of his rage. At a group outing, James bleeds to death after someone cuts his throat. But because he's such a terrible human being, police aren't sure which of his acquaintances decided to kill him.

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Equinox (1992)
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阿兰·鲁道夫 actor: 马修·莫迪恩 / 拉腊·弗林·鲍尔 …
other title: 龙虎生死战
Estranged twins Henry and Freddy navigate their drastically different lives— one a troubled bookworm, the other a hardened criminal. As a young writer uncovers their royal lineage and inheritance, the brothers’ fate intertwines in unexpected ways.

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Welcome to L.A. (1977)
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other title: 情挑洛杉矶 / Willkommen in Los Angeles …
The lives of a group of Hollywood neurotics intersect over the Christmas holidays. Foremost among them, a songwriter visits Los Angeles to work on a singer's album. The gig, unbeknownst to him, is being bankrolled by his estranged father, a dairy magnate, who hopes to reunite with his son. When the songwriter meets an eccentric housewife who fancies herself a modern-day Garbo, his world of illusions comes crashing down.

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Love at Large (1990)
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other title: 勇探豪情 / 사설 탐정 해리 …
Inept private investigator Harry Dobbs meets vampish new client Miss Dolan, who wants him to follow her abusive lover. But Dobbs sets about tailing a different person entirely – a mysterious character leading a double life. Harry, however, discovers that he himself is being followed by a distaff gumshoe.

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Afterglow (1997)
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other title: 晚霞 / 换妻游戏 …
Lucky Mann is a builder equally handy at repairs and seduction. The latest housewife to succumb to his charms is Marianne, unhappily married to corporate exec Jeffrey. When Jeffrey becomes enraptured by Lucky’s wife Phyllis, the four get caught in a love quadrangle that reignites their marriages.

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天上人间 (1987)
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other title: Made in Heaven
迈克(蒂莫西·赫顿 Timothy Hutton 饰)从各种意义上来说都是一个失败者,在一场意外中,为了救人,迈克不幸命丧车轮,却因为做了好事而得到了升入天堂的机会。在天堂里,迈克邂逅了名为安妮(凯莉·麦吉利斯 Kelly McGillis 饰)的女孩,在安妮的带领和鼓励下,迈克渐渐的开始习惯了这里的生活。 随着时间的推移,迈克和安妮之间渐渐产生了真挚的爱情,之后两人结了婚,拥有了自己幸福的小家庭。可是好景不长,安妮很快就要离开天堂,投胎转世了。伤心的迈克苦苦哀求天堂管理员,管理员被迈克的真情所打动,答应让他也投胎转世,并且给了他三十年的时间去寻找安妮。

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Intimate Affairs (2002)
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other title: 完全性爱调查 / Investigating Sex …
Edgar is an artist living in Paris during the 1920s who believes that sex is a subject of vital importance, but almost no one discusses it with the gravity it deserves. With this in mind, Edgar gathers together a panel of fellow creative types at the home of the wealthy tycoon Faldo and his oddly accented spouse Sasha for an evening in which they will discuss their erotic lives without self-serving wit or exaggeration.

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Breakfast of Champions (1999)
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other title: 王牌战将 / 冠军的早餐 …
A millionaire car salesman who runs the biggest dealership in Midland City, Dwayne Hoover is a celebrity, loved and trusted by everyone. Then one day, he wakes up and realizes that his life is a total mess! But between the headaches posed by his pill-popping wife, a mistress who won't leave him alone, and a cross-dressing sales manager, Dwayne has picked a bad week for a midlife crisis.

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The Moderns (1988)
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other title: 辉煌时代 / 巴黎浪族 …
Alan Rudolph's "The Moderns" is a wonderful, funny and twisted film set in 1920's Paris, France. The front burner story is a triangle between Nick, his runaway wife and a cold as ice businessman that wants to obtain a higher social status. Nick(Keith Carradine)and Rachel(Linda Fiorentino)were married years ago and she bails out of the marriage. Years later, she shows up on the arms of Bertram Stone (John Lone). While he deals with her reappearance, he is also talked into making art forgeries by a rather shady behaving gallery owner, Valentin(Genevieve Bujold), as a favor for the wealthy Nathalie De Ville(Geraldine Chaplin). His friend, Oiseau (Wallace Shawn)constantly tells Nick that they should head to a new town called Hollywood to seek their fortune and Ernest Hemingway (Kevin J. O'Connor)wanders around in a state of alcoholic cynicism and making quirky observations. The story, like the period in which the action takes place, is surreal. One scene has one of the dead characters rise from the grave like Houdini, strait-jack, chains and all. The relationship between Nick and Rachel is the heart of the story: Nick doesn't want to trust Rachel because of what she did, but all of his actions throughout the film are a result of Rachel. When he paints the forgeries, he thinks of Rachel's beauty and puts his feelings on canvas. He loves her, but is fighting with the possibility that if he opens his heart to her again, she will break it again. You can see this conflict when he slaps her in front of Stone, yet immediately becomes apologetic. Should he love her, or should he just back off? He clearly does when they share a sexual romp on the bathroom floor while her husband is downstairs. The entire cast is great, but the best performance comes from O'Connor, who I think is one of the most underrated actors around. This is a great movie to have if you feel like having a Paris night movie marathon, or just to have fun.