William Rice

William Rice

Birthday: 1931-10-17

Place of Birth: Vermont, USA

Biography: William Rice was a member of the avant-garde art scene in the East Village in New York City for many years. A painter, film actor, and an unaffiliated scholar, Bill Rice was one of the central figures in the various bohemian enclaves that gathered and overlapped in the Lower East Side of the 1960s.

Movies

Coffee and Cigarettes
Coffee and Cigarettes

An anthology of eleven vignettes featuring star-studded casts of extremely unique individuals who al...

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Decoder
Decoder

F.M. discovers that different sonic frequencies induce different patterns of behaviour in listeners,...

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Vortex
Vortex

A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poe...

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Rain
Rain

Michael Keenan's film Rain takes us in from the main title to the payoff of its namesake. The heat a...

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Thunder II
Thunder II

Indian sheriff Thunder is transferred to a small town in the desert. He learns that the corrupt depu...

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Subway Riders
Subway Riders

A psychotic saxophone player lures victims to deserted spots with his music and then guns them down...

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Sleepwalk
Sleepwalk

When Nicole, a young copy-shop employee, is hired to translate an ancient Chinese manuscript, she so...

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One Last Thing...
One Last Thing...

Sixteen-year-old Dylan is dying of cancer. When a charitable organization offers to grant Dylan his ...

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Stray Dogs
Stray Dogs

A fan tries to get an artist's attention by literally coming apart....

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G-Man
G-Man

An exploration of social schizophrenia in which terrorists consult their mothers before planting bom...

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Manhattan Love Suicides
Manhattan Love Suicides

A series of short films by Richard Kern: Stray Dogs, Woman At The Wheel, Thrust In Me, & I Hate ...

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The Trap Door
The Trap Door

A Nietzschian parable on the fate of innocence, THE TRAP DOOR follows the mishaps of Jeremy (John Ah...

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Doomed Love
Doomed Love

Depressed after losing his lover a long time ago, Andre visits a psychiatrist. While in the doctor's...

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Last Supper
Last Supper

In an empty lot in Harlem, an elite group of New Yorkers prepares for a book-signing party given in ...

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The Deflowering
The Deflowering

A dystopian future in which bodily contact is taboo and all children are conceived artificially. As ...

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The Offenders
The Offenders

A punk savage satire about a kidnapping....

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Letters to Dad
Letters to Dad

The almost lyrical Letters to Dad, is a meditation on authority that superimposes the spectre of Jon...

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Jonas in the Desert
Jonas in the Desert

Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of t...

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Final Reward
Final Reward

A fascinating drama-document on the punk period....

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Her Name is Lisa
Her Name is Lisa

A Vermont farmer searches New York City for his dream girl, with his gay neighbor as his guide....

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One Hour
One Hour

One of the longest handheld tracking shots in film history, It’s Real documents an hour in the stree...

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Tomorrow Always Comes
Tomorrow Always Comes

A 1940s campy film noir sex romp comedy thriller. Harlem, Chinatown, Park Ave. It’s the same old sto...

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Documents, Memory, for My Friend Bill Rice
Documents, Memory, for My Friend Bill Rice

This short video portrait of the great East Village painter, writer, and actor Bill Rice – made by h...

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Soap
Soap

“Inspired by the prose poem by Francis Ponge, SOAP is a series of monologues and stories concerning ...

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