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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Unreasonable Rhymes, Vol. No. 1––1-26 (out of 80) classic illustrated LIMERICKS/watercolors from 1894. Volume No. 1. (of 3) told by Anne Idyott.
About the Book
“UNREASONABLE RHYMES, Vol. no. 1, Told by Anne Idyott,” is the first of three groups of illustrated limericks from 1894, that I’ve restored (the original had horrible foxing and dark patches). The book carries the orig...
SHOWBOAT 1988-THE REMAKE (Censored Version, 95 minutes, ©1979). The last night of 'audition shoot' was on July 24, 1975 (exactly 51 years ago!!).
(SHOWBOAT)1988-THE REMAKE (full feature link here)
“The big hit of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, it’s easy to see why. The film has carved a unique nitch for itself, somewhere between FREAKS and Fellini’s 8 1/2. It’s as though someone...
"A TREASURY OF ART collection (Part 1). (If you are IN THE BOOK. don't miss out on the thrill of holding a hard-cover w/dust jacket The printing is 4K/top notch (thusly expensive!).
All images/text is excerpted from “A TREASURY OF ART (Part-1)--Undiscovered Works, 1966-2022: From the Collection of Artist/Photographer Julie Schachter and Filmmaker Rick Schmidt, ©2022. (The artists presented here own any copyrights/...
CRASH MY FUNERAL (75 MIN, ©1999) a CRAZED COMEDY – featuring John Balquist (Loneliness Is Soul)& Willie Boy Walker (Morgan's Cake)--World Premiered at FIGUEIRA DA FOZ INTL, PORTUGAL
Production Overview by Rick Schmidt (from ‘Main Feature Competition”/catalogue, Figueira da Foz Intl. Film Festival, Portugal).
CRASH MY FUNERAL was a crazy production. We quickly got in over our heads because we stared shooting with...
MY SHOWBOAT 1988 FINALE-––NEA grant saves my edit room in SF, re-cutting the 16mm "final" print after Rotterdam Intl., & "Cigarette War"/psychodrama at Ann Arbor Film Festival before my US premiere!
FACING THE MUSIC (1976)
In late April, having faked my way along for another few months of charging cost of my editing room for SHOWBOAT 1988, I was called into a meeting with Mr. Marshal, along with Bill Palmer himself, the owner of t...
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