RICHARD MARCUS Appearances (Movies & TV): <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Marcus>. <https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0546172/>.
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SHOWBOAT 1988 won 1st Place, Ann Arbor Film Festival (1978).
TRAILER: <https://vimeo.com/ondemand/showboat1988>.
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“Thirty-five plus years after his 1975 feature filmmaking debut, American Independent Rick Schmidt remains a free-wheeling derring-do filmmaker holding fast to the notion that people's real lives are more truly dramatic, hilarious, exciting and as exasperating as those manufactured by Hollywood's minions. Most everyone falls in and out of love, rejects and gets rejected, contends with failure and success, hatred, ambition, the death of loved ones...It's all there.
“To capture real life on film, Schmidt fashions a creative weave out of the threads of narrative, documentary, and docu-drama film forms. His actors draw on their own experience enabling him to create a unique blend of fact and fiction. In the end, Schmidt makes art and life intermingle and imitate each other. Aware that the American Dream factory financiers would never fund his films, Schmidt, undeterred, remains the maven of low, low-budget feature filmmaking.” —Vic Skolnick, CINEMA ARTS CENTRE
“It is a period I am inclined to describe as the Rick Schmidt era of the American Independent film. For it was Schmidt’s 1989 book, How to Make a Feature Film at Used Car Prices, that defined that moment as much as the work of any one of its practitioners. Schmidt’s book offered tips on how to make a film for $10,000 or less.” —Brian Price, FRAMEWORKS
“A must-have for no-budget filmmakers. (Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices). A most valuable resource in case you donʼt have a billionaire uncle or arenʼt one of Spielbergʼs kids.”—Eduardo Sanchez, Co-Writer, Co-Director Co-Editor, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
“Without Rickʼs book (Feature Filmmaking at Used-Car Prices), Clerks would have been an idea that never made it past this page.” —Kevin Smith, writer/director CLERKS, MALL RATS, CHASING AMY, DOGMA, JAY.
(Kevin presented me with a LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD, Rome International Film Festival, Rome, GA.)
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Dickie/RICHARD MARCUS (Actor; "TREMORS," & "24" TV Series, etc., plays a Waiter--'the 'last-auditioner'–– concluding w/climactic scene for (SHOWBOAT) 1988. (Clip begins w/actor Ed Nylund on stage).