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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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...
#91-100! (the final ten PINHOLE images of Julie Schachter's 'WHOs WHO 1980' portraits). Enjoy!
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Willie Boy Walker
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William Farley
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Ted Falconi
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Wayne Wang
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Wade Novy
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Victoria Looseleaf
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Tamim Ansary
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Susan Subtle
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Sue White
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Susan Roether
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The arrival of AFI grant $ for SHOWBOAT 1988––I suddenly had a FEATURE FILM to make, with script by friend Bill<Farleyfilm.com>, Nick Kazan (Matilda, Reversal of Fortune), & Henry Bean (The Believer)!
Text below is excerpted from my book, “Sleeper trilogy—Three Undiscovered First Features by Rick Schmidt 1973-1983.”
SHOW BOATING (1975)
While I awaited the big $9918 AFI GRANT check I reread my application form and started thinking...
#73-81 from "WHOS WHO 1980"––PINHOLE artist's portraits by Julie Schachter.
Julie Schachter’s book represents the history of creative people, who interacted and formed a kind of West Coast art movement in Northern California in the late 1900s. (Underlined names have links to their artistic work).
PLEASE NOTE:...
A MAN, A WOMAN, AND A KILLER, SHOWBOAT 1988, EMERALD CITIES (The Trilogy).
RICK SCHMIDT'S FILM TRILOGY PORTRAYAL OF AMERICA 1973-1983 by Vic Skolnick, CINEMA ARTS CENTRE, November 1984.
Rick Schmidt is a filmmaker of free-wheeling derring-do who believes that people's lives are or can be as dramatic, hilarious, a...
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