Emulsion Episode Two – Alan Rudolph discusses Choose Me.

      This week marks a significant milestone in Alan Rudolph's 50-year career, which began as an assistant and screenwriter for Robert Altman. Over the decades, he transitioned into creating original, romantic, and occasionally unsettling American cinema, a journey that paralleled (though never quite matched the fame or recognition of) directors like Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma, Francis Ford Coppola, Terrence Malick, and David Lynch. This pivotal moment is not the release of a new film but rather the Criterion Collection's 4K release of his 1984 film Choose Me, arguably the best introduction to his body of work. This release features an impressive restoration of both the film itself and its historically overlooked reputation.

      For this release, I had the pleasure of engaging in an hour-long conversation with Rudolph, discussing the creation of Choose Me, the ways in which his earlier and later films are now seen through its lens, and offering candid thoughts on a career that exists just outside the realm of the celebrity-auteur spotlight.

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