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Richard Schickel

Directing · Died aged 84

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TMDB ID
44950 ↗
Born
1933-02-10
Died
2017-02-18
Age at death
84
Place of birth
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Known for
Directing

Biography

Richard Warren Schickel (February 10, 1933 – February 18, 2017) was an American film historian, journalist, author, documentarian, and film and literary critic. He was a film critic for Time from 1965–2010, and also wrote for Life and the Los Angeles Times Book Review. His last writings about film were for Truthdig. He was interviewed in For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (2009). In this documentary, he discusses early film critics Frank E. Woods, Robert E. Sherwood, and Otis Ferguson, and tells of how, in the 1960s, he, Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris, rejected moralizing opposition of the older Bosley Crowther of The New York Times who had railed against violent movies such as Bonnie and Clyde (1967). In addition to film, Schickel also critiqued and documented cartoons, particularly Peanuts.

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Filmography

Directing36
Acting59
Writing31
Producing19
Creator1
Crew1