HeyJaredRick’s Substack
My 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. (opens the original)
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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 original unknown author’s name as, “Anne Idyott,” which makes the most sense if spoken out loud. The full book consists of 80 limericks, presenting in three volumes, with Vol. No. 1 consisting of limerick #1-26, using place names of American cities as the content seed fr
SHOWBOAT 1988-THE REMAKE (Censored Version, 95 minutes, ©1979). The last night of 'audition shoot' was on July 24, 1975 (exactly 51 years ago!!). (opens the original)
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(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 forgot to lock the studio door and Luis Bunuel and William Burroughs sneaked in and began a hatchet job on Hollywood."— David Harris, THE BOSTON PHOENIX“1988 recounts the fictitious tale of a middle-aged librarian’s attempts to finance and remake the film mus
"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!). (opens the original)
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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/reproduction rights to their creations).————-<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wq
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 (opens the original)
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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 what we imagined to be a workable story concept instead of just letting our movie grow out of the surroundings (locations) and real-life stories of our actors. We begun by thinking that we were making a movie about a street person (played by JOHN BALQUIST AKA “yahn s
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! (opens the original)
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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 the Palmer lab in San Francisco where I rented a small editing room. They had finally figured out a way to stop me from continuing to cut my film under their roof. Mr. Palmer spoke first. He said that since I already owed them so much money, and I obviously wanted to
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