Richard Brick

Woody Allen and Richard Brick on location in Central Park for Deconstructing Harry, New York, 1996.

Vilko Filac, Richard Brick and Emir Kusturica on Arizona Dream, Douglas, Arizona, 1991.

Kurt Russell and Meryl Streep on Silkwood, Howe, Texas, 1982.

Milos Forman (looking through director’s finder), Richard Brick (left) and Ed Quinn, key grip, on Ragtime, New York, 1980. Photo by Michael Hausman, executive producer.

Richard Brick, boom operator, on Boardwalk, starring Lee Strasberg, Ruth Gordon and Janet Leigh, Brooklyn, New York, 1978.

Mayor David N. Dinkins after swearing-in of Richard Brick as Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting, March 12, 1993.

“I am not the messiah” acceptance speech, the Blue Room, City Hall, New York, March 12, 1993.

Richard Brick, Lee Grant and Mayor David N. Dinkins at Academy Awards luncheon, the Russian Tea Room, March 23, 1993.

Invitation to New York City MOFTB gala reception aboard the Savarona Yacht, Cannes Film Festival, May 19, 1993.

Mayor David N. Dinkins letter of December 21, 1993.

Al Maysles, Maysles Films letter of January 25, 1993.

Joseph Petruccio, Business Representative, Local 52 IATSE, letter of December 4, 1992.

John T. McGuire, Michael Proscia and Sam Robert, New York Council of Motion Picture and Television Unions, letter of December 1, 1992.

Howard D. Fabrick, Esq. Proskauer Rose Goetz & Mendelsohn, letter of December 1, 1992.

John H. Sucke, Screen Actors Guild, letter of November 30, 1992.

Robert Lantz, The Lantz Office, letter of January 27, 1993.

Thomas E. Rothman, The Samuel Goldwyn Company, letter of March 16, 1993.

New York State Police contingent guarding the safe of the Bank of Rome on the return of the Sea Level 11 from the saturation diving expedition to the Andrea Doria on the 25th anniversary of her sinking. Montauk, New York, September 1981.

The ship Sea Level 11 on station above the wreck of the Andrea Doria, North Atlantic Ocean, September 1981.

David Mamet’s Things Change benefit premiere at Lincoln Center, New York, October 7, 1988.

Program for the first Columbia Film Festival, April 16, 1988, organized by Richard Brick, co-chair, Film Division.

In 1916, Columbia became the first university to offer a course in film.

Symphony Space marquee for first Columbia University Film Festival, April 16, 1988. Photo by Terry Roy Gruber.

Giving lectures on the American model of feature film production at the Beijing Film Academy, September 2009.

Emir Kusturica founded the extraordinary Küstendorf Film and Music Festival in 2008 in a rural mountain village he created, Drvengrad, Mokra Gora, Serbia. Like Kusturica's films, it is a place of magic and fully expresses his artistic, cinematic and political values.

The festival is devoted to non-commercial cinema, the very best of a broad spectrum of national cinema and genres, including both contemporary films and retrospectives. Screenings, workshops with the filmmakers, more screenings, great food, drink and socializing until the midnight music performances . . . and then back to the bar. Not an easy experience for those who cannot tolerate second-hand smoke, but completely exhilarating. I was delighted and honored to have been an official guest at Küstendorf January 2010, and a juror at Kustendorf January 2011.