Richard Baskin

Filmes

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.
Welcome to L.A.
Original Music Composer
The lives of a group of Hollywood neurotics intersect over the Christmas holidays. Foremost among them, a songwriter visits Los Angeles to work on a singer's album. The gig, unbeknownst to him, is being bankrolled by his estranged father, a dairy magnate, who hopes to reunite with his son. When the songwriter meets an eccentric housewife who fancies herself a modern-day Garbo, his world of illusions comes crashing down.
Welcome to L.A.
Eric Wood
The lives of a group of Hollywood neurotics intersect over the Christmas holidays. Foremost among them, a songwriter visits Los Angeles to work on a singer's album. The gig, unbeknownst to him, is being bankrolled by his estranged father, a dairy magnate, who hopes to reunite with his son. When the songwriter meets an eccentric housewife who fancies herself a modern-day Garbo, his world of illusions comes crashing down.
Oeste Selvagem
Original Music Composer
O mitológico Buffalo Bill monta um show com ares circenses em que circulam os típicos personagens do Velho Oeste. Porém, em meio à farsa, está um autêntico personagem daquele ambiente, o chefe Touro Sentado. O confronto entre os dois é também um embate entre a história real do Oeste e a criação de histórias falsas e escapistas.
Nashville
Frog
A história de vários personagens ligados ao mundo da música se cruza na cidade de Nashville, capital do Tennessee. Barbara Jean é considerada a rainha do local, mas está à beira de um colapso; Linnea e Delbert Reese mantém um casamento instável e possuem filho deficiente; Opal é um jornalista britânico a trabalho na cidade. Clássico dirigido por Altman, indicado em cinco categorias do Oscar e ganhador da estatueta de melhor canção - "I'm Easy", de Keith Carradine.
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
Music Arranger
A bachelor's life is interrupted by the appearance of a teenager who claims to be his son.
Congratulations, It's a Boy!
Original Music Composer
A bachelor's life is interrupted by the appearance of a teenager who claims to be his son.