Rick’s Substack
Rick SchmidtMy Substack is an introduction to my work in indie feature film production (over 50+ years!), and the books I've written, fiction and those ABOUT "the making of," (FEATURE FILMMAKING AT USED-CAR PRICES, Viking Penguin books).
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Jumping around to 2005, here’s RICK’S CANOE, the only Feature Workshop of mine with a Hollywood actor’s participation––Val De Vargas (Touch of Evil!)
(How often does a reviewer beg for more space to praise your movie!)
REVIEW; RICK’S CANOE, Santa Fe Reporter, 2005
“We only wish there were more column inches to cover one of the quirkiest, most refreshing homegrown film events...
Jumping around to 2005, here’s RICK’S CANOE, the only Feature Workshop of mine with a Hollywood actor’s participation––Val De Vargas (Touch of Evil!)
FULL MOVIE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5i5NHWc_5s&t=1985s
(How often does a reviewer beg for more space to praise your movie!)
Bread Machine - my latest/new-27th film by Rick-Schmidt.
What my movies have been gifted with in the past (ALL my films/DVs) are these freshest, mostly off-the-cuff IMPROV jolts of real-life. Shooting honest and original personal stories, combining them with improv fiction, is how most of my fil...
From my MEMOIR, “12 Dear Frogs”––THE DOG BITE, story about how it ruined the life of an olympic-level runner (or did it?). A crazed hippie hitchhiker (me, 1968) told the driver, “Not true...
Excerpted from 12 DEAD FROGS (paperback edition)
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THE DOG BITE (1968)
The last long ride I got during my eight-day, cross-country hitchhike trip was in the car of a black man and his wife in their mid-twenties. She informed me th...
Terry Gross/'FRESH AIR"- my interview about SHOWBOAT 1988 censorship (1 of 4 movies starring Carolyn Zaremba; also A MAN, A WOMAN, AND A KILLER, 1988, EMERALD CITIES, & THE FIFTH WALL (Thanks Z!)
Lead actor Carolyn Zaremba (Z), Emerald Cities shoot, Ridgecrest/Death Valley, CA. Photograph by Julie Schachter. ©1983 L.L. Productions.
See full features here:
THE FIFTH WALL
EMERALD CITIES
SHOWBOAT 1988 (CENSORED VERSION)...
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