Mark Rappaport’s film is a poetically evocative, thematically harsh account of one of cinema’s great anti-stars.
Rock Hudson’s Home Movies presents the allusions to the ’50s matinee idol’s secret as a double-edged sword.
Art of the Real 2015: The Royal Road, The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk, & Becoming Anita Ekberg
by Sean Nam
Fundamentally, Jenni Olson’s The Royal Road is a paean to the Bay Area landscape.
Room 237 is more companion piece than standalone work.