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A Man, a Woman and a Killer
This 1975 debut feature from Rick Schmidt and his then-roommate Wayne Wang purports to tell a simple story but the telling is far from straightforward. In a 2009 interview, Schmidt said that the method behind A MAN, A WOMAN AND A KILLER "is mostly improv and experimental with...Watch Movie
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Morgan's Cake
MORGAN’S CAKE is the story of a young man (Morgan Schmidt-Feng) about to turn 18, and all the problems that are set to befall him. His girlfriend is pregnant, he’s just lost his job, his mother is deserting him for a career move to New York City, and his divorced dad (Willie Boy Walker) can...Watch Movie
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Sticky Wicket
In the small town of Brunswick, Maine, the Women-Only Croquet Club is the only organized resistance to a corporate takeover by an invading cineplex movie chain. In its direct path is a 100 seat, hippie-built theater called the Eveningstar Cinema, crunched into a tiny, jewelry-store-sized space at...Watch Movie
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Loneliness Is Soul
Two young women (Meeka Schmalle and Jessica Heidt) rent an Oakland apartment where an itinerate musician (John Balquist) occasionally crashes. His presence in the household acts like a truth serum, somehow suddenly prompting everyone, including a strange "gift-giver"...Watch Movie
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Blues for the Avatar
BLUES FOR THE AVATAR is a comedy about two oddball characters: a man, Cheyenne, and a woman, Mary Jane, caught in the circumstances of being unwanted guests in other people's lives. His propensity for women has landed him in the middle of a horrendous breakup, while her quest...Watch Movie
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Bear Dance
BEAR DANCE, shot in Portugal during the 2002 Figueira da Foz International Film Festival, discusses the sanity and insanity of daily life, cultures colliding, young and old meshing in a common stew of modern humanity in new-millennium turmoil. We are introduced to a cast of interesting...Watch Movie
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Welcome to Serendipity
An "A-Type" business woman, Maya (Irene Barnett) hitchhikes her way to a ghost town in Death Valley after a fatal car crash, and grows more impatient by the day as the repair of her VW "Bug" drags on. During this forced vacation she gets to know the town's few inhabitants,...Watch Movie
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It's Not About the Shawerma
IT'S NOT ABOUT THE SHAWERMA is a story about obsessions, centered on a young hippie-style writer, Mikey (played by Yahn Soon), who lets his imagination run wild after his chicken shawerma order is stolen from a falafel cafe in Santa Cruz, California. Caught in his...Watch Movie
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Mirage
MIRAGE is about an old man, Jefé, who has a cult-like hold on his household of wayward, homeless new-age women: whoever Mike (Michael Saliba), his 20-year-old henchman, can pick up at local bars and cages in Santa Fe, NM and bring back to the adobe. Home life starts disintegrating when a Native...Watch Movie
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No Tears for Bankers
The mortgage meltdown of Mr. Barry Norman's bed and breakfast, owned and operated by himself and his wife Brittany in the small town of Rome, Georgia are followed in NO TEARS FOR BANKERS. At the beginning, Norman states his distain for bankers; they will rule soon on his loan...Watch Movie
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Real Life
REAL LIFE shows just that, 14 stories told by people of various ages, who have the courage to impart vital and personal information you rarely hear in the so-called "information age." They cover most of the pertinent issues of our time: love and loss, happiness and heartbreak, ironies of all...Watch Movie
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Maisy's Garden
In MAISY'S GARDEN an over-achieving lawyer (played by Michael Bolgatz) is given the opportunity to retreat to his small garden and take a pause... examine his hectic life, and the collapse of his marriage. During the six-day shoot he had the opportunity to replay his real-life breakup and...Watch Movie
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American Orpheus
Seattle International Film Festival writes, "Intended as a tribute to Jean Cocteau's classic ORPHÉE, Rick Schmidt gives the Orpheus legend a very contemporary twist. Here the central bond, the love that reaches beyond death, is not between a young man and woman, but between a...Watch Movie
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Chetzemoka's Curse
Only the second American Dogme 95 movie, CHETZEMOKA'S CURSE is about a young, twenty-something woman, Maya (Maya Berthoud), who is haunted by the memory of her first love and her subsequent betrayal. She still feels the pain, works to exorcise it as she wiles away her life as...Watch Movie
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Crash My Funeral
CRASH MY FUNERAL is a surreal comedy about a scriptwriter's block. In an attempt to pull his movie back on track he employs drastic measures; trying out impossible dialogue on a pizza delivery man, wandering around the neighborhood to scare up new characters and scenes, hoping...Watch Movie
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Rick's Canoe
Jennifer Lowe, author of SANTA FE REPORTER, writes, "We only wish there were more column inches to cover one of the quirkiest, most refreshingly homegrown film events of an otherwise dreary late winter: Shot on location in Santa Fe, RICK'S CANOE came together in a matter of days thanks to heroic...Watch Movie
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My Bounty Hunter
An old man, Jefé, is on the run from the law, holed up in an old adobe house on the outskirts of Death Valley Junction. Two dot.com-ers decide to hunt him down, to grab publicity for their fledgling website launch of www.bountyhunter.com. It is never clear what exactly Jefé is...Watch Movie
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Someone Like Me
SOMEONE LIKE ME is a love story unlike any most of us can understand. We can all experience the love of a mother, father, friend, spouse, brother or sister. Few of us can know the love of an identical twin: it is a truly spiritual experience. Mary and Margaret share this special bond. Craig...Watch Movie
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Release the Head
RELEASE THE HEAD is a story about a new-age drifter (played by Steve Gillard, CHETZEMOKA'S CURSE) who returns to his hometown where his ex-wife still resides, to try and start a new religion, called "Sol-Luna." Because he can talk-the-talk he's able to convince a gullible...Watch Movie
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1988: The Remake
1988: THE REMAKE, the second film of the trilogy, is about a huge audition for the remake of the classic American musical "Showboat." For three nights, July 22-24, 1975, hundreds of San Francisco’s most bizarre talent turned up, while actor Ed Nylund, a real-life librarian and...Watch Movie
