Richard Baskin

Películas

The Earth Day Special
Writer
The Earth Day Special is a television special revolving around Earth Day that aired on ABC on April 22, 1990. Sponsored by Time Warner, the two hour special featured an all-star cast addressing concerns about global warming, deforestation, and other environmental ills.
The Earth Day Special
Executive Producer
The Earth Day Special is a television special revolving around Earth Day that aired on ABC on April 22, 1990. Sponsored by Time Warner, the two hour special featured an all-star cast addressing concerns about global warming, deforestation, and other environmental ills.
UFOria
Original Music Composer
Sheldon Bart (Fred Ward) is a drifter, and a small-time con man. He meets his old friend, Brother Bud (Harry Dean Stanton), a big-time con man into faith healing and fencing stolen cars, at his revival tent outside a small town. While he's helping Brother Bud, he falls in love with Arlene (Cindy Williams), a local supermarket clerk who believes in UFOs and is deeply religious and deeply lonely. When Arlene has a vision of a coming UFO, everyone deals with it in their own way.
Rock 'n' Roll Hotel
Director
The story follows a young trio of musicians, played by Rachel Sweet, Matthew Penn (son of Arthur) and Judd Nelson, called The Third Dimension. They enter a battle of the bands in an old hotel called the Rock N' Roll Hotel. Howver, rival band The Weevils are intent on stopping the young band from winning the contest and taking the title for themselves... Essentially one of the first feature-length music videos, the film was produced in Richmond, VA, shot in 3D, filled with musical numbers, written by Russ Dvonch (Rock 'n' Roll High School), co-directed by Paul Justman (Standing In The Shadows of Motown) and featured 80s cable icon Colin Quinn as a local DJ. (Synopsis from Spectacle Theater)
Honeysuckle Rose
Original Music Composer
Buck Bonham is a country singer on the road caught in a romantic triangle with Dyan Cannon and Amy Irving, the daughter of one of his longtime musical sidekick.
Interview
Music
A freewheeling cinematic experience, this film is the work of two filmmakers who relate their perceptions of each other through their respective animation techniques. Images and words are paired in startling associations. Each does a visual portrait of the other, based on characteristic gestures and impressions. A combination of techniques and materials produces a film of rich visual texture shaped by the hands and heads of two very different people.
James at 15
Music
A 15-year-old whose family moves from Oregon to Boston misses the girlfriend he left behind, so he runs away to see her. On the way he hooks up with a female art student in her 20s who is also hitchhiking across the country, from whom he learns some valuable lessons about life. This was the pilot film for the two-season series.
Bienvenido a Los Ángeles
Original Music Composer
Cuando un joven compositor de música rock regresa a Los Ángeles, descubre que un álbum con sus canciones va a ser grabado por un famoso cantante. Herido en su orgullo, entra en una espiral de dinero fácil, coches rápidos y mujeres ardientes. Alan Rudolph fue ayudante de dirección de Robert Altman.
Bienvenido a Los Ángeles
Eric Wood
Cuando un joven compositor de música rock regresa a Los Ángeles, descubre que un álbum con sus canciones va a ser grabado por un famoso cantante. Herido en su orgullo, entra en una espiral de dinero fácil, coches rápidos y mujeres ardientes. Alan Rudolph fue ayudante de dirección de Robert Altman.
Buffalo Bill y los indios
Original Music Composer
Western basado en la obra de teatro de Kopit que narra, desde un punto de vista cercano a la parodia, la vida del legendario Buffalo Bill (Paul Newman), que en 1885 triunfaba con su espectáculo circense.
Nashville
Frog
Drama en torno a la industria discográfica de esta ciudad. En el fondo es una sátira de la sociedad americana a través de la música country.
Enhorabuena, ¡Ha sido niño!
Music Arranger
La cómoda vida de un soltero se ve de repente interrumpida por la aparición de un adolescente que dice ser su hijo.
Enhorabuena, ¡Ha sido niño!
Original Music Composer
La cómoda vida de un soltero se ve de repente interrumpida por la aparición de un adolescente que dice ser su hijo.