William Richert

...he edited out of the first draft of The American President's script. Sorkin was accused of lifting ideas from an earlier screenplay by William Richert, which was denied by the WGA . One of the issues touched on in the film and developed in...

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William Richert (born in 1942 in Florida) is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor. He is best known for his performance as Bob in the 1991 Gus van Sant film My Own Private Idaho. At age 17, he hopped a bus to...

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...and Susan Walden. Most of the film was lensed by cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond. The director, however, was a novice named William Richert. The production went so far over budget that it was shut down three times and declared...

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...fit and awakens the next day with Scott in Portland, Oregon. Mike and Scott are soon reunited with their mentor Bob Pigeon (William Richert), a middle-aged man and father figure to a gang of street kids and hustlers who live in an...

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...conspiracy thrillers, including the seminal The Manchurian Candidate (1959), and Winter Kills, which was made into a film by William Richert in 1979. Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges also wrote some stories featuring conspiracies. In...

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...would receive 50% and the guilds 50%, which they divide equally. Among the plaintiffs in the Writers Guild case is William Richert, whose credits include "The Man in the Iron Mask" and "A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon." Richert...

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...film stars River Phoenix, Ann Magnuson and Meredith Salenger. It is based upon the novel Aren't You Even Gonna Kiss Me Goodbye? by William Richert, who also directed the film. This film deviated considerably from the original director's...

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...IV. The changes mostly affect Reeves' side of the story, with the actor garbling his way through the Prince Hal character while William Richert's rotund vagrant stands in for Falstaff. The curious thing about Van Sant's film is that it...

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...films, which he then travels the country with. David Lynch self-released his 2006 film Inland Empire, while cult filmmaker William Richert released his director's cut of the 1988 film A Night In The Life Of Jimmy Reardon on his website,...

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...to have chosen me rather than the other way around. A few days ago, I got a mysterious package from cult filmmaker William Richert (Winter Kills). It contained a homemade dub of his director's cut of a film he made with River Phoenix that...

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