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 Richard Schickel, Contributor
Richard Schickel, whose celebrated and prolific career spans 50 years, has been the film critic for Time and Life magazines, has written more than 20 books and has produced, written and directed numerous documentaries. In addition to his new book, “Clint Eastwood, A Retrospective,” Richard Schickel is the author of definitive biographies of Elia Kazan, D.W. Griffith and Walt Disney. All told, he has written, co-written or edited 37 books. He has produced, written and directed an equal number of documentaries. His most recent film is “The Eastwood Factor,” premiering on Turner Classic Movies in May. His five hour history of Warner Bros, “You Must Remember This” premiered on “American Masters” in Sept, 2008, and his film about director Ron Howard ran on TCM later that year. Among his other recent titles are “Spielberg on Spielberg,” “Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin,” “Scorsese on Scorsese,” “Woody Allen: A Life in Film” “Watch the Skies,” a history of 1950s Science Fiction. His reconstruction of Samuel Fuller’s “The Big Red One” won several awards in 2004. He reviewed movies for “Time” from 1972 through 2008. He holds an honorary doctorate from the American Film Institute and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the British Film Insitute Book Prize, the Maurice Bessy prize for film criticism, thee National Board of Review’s William K. Everson award and the Telluride Film Festival’s Silver Medal for his contributions to film history. Truthdig Columns201202/09 ‘Crazy Horse’: A Study in Erotic Abstraction 01/06 The Best (and the Rest) of 2011 201112/24 A ‘War Horse’ and His Boy 12/20 The ‘Girl’ Is Good, but Why Bother? 12/09 ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ … Clunker 12/05 ‘Hugo’: Resistance Is Futile 11/25 Movies About the Movies: ‘Marilyn’ Charms, ‘The Artist’ Bombs 11/18 ‘The Descendants’: Clooney Goes Down Easy 11/09 ‘J. Edgar’: Hoover’s Hubris Writ Large 10/10 Missing From ‘March’ 10/02 The Sad, Secret Life of a Spy 09/26 ‘Moneyball’ Isn’t a Home Run 08/28 A Graham Greene Classic Better Left Alone 08/14 Reconciling ‘The Help’ With the History 08/07 Sex Slavery and Impotent Outrage 07/15 ‘Tabloid’: Errol Morris’ Lunatic Love Story 07/11 Animal Harm 07/01 Hanks Falls Flat in Languid ‘Larry Crowne’ 06/18 Revisiting the Horror of Nanking 05/29 ‘The Tree of Life’: Terrence Malick Syndrome Strikes Again 05/20 ‘Midnight in Paris’: Tripping the City of Light Fantastic 05/13 Haute Love, High Fashion 05/03 Herzog Lights Up ‘Cave of Forgotten Dreams’ 04/23 ‘The Greatest Movie Ever Sold’ 04/17 ‘Meek’s Cutoff’: 104 Minutes You Can’t Get Back 04/01 ‘In a Better World’: Oscar Bait Without Much Bite 03/26 Their ‘Perestroika’ 03/19 A Smooth Ride in This ‘Lincoln’ 03/11 Two Ways to Make a Bad Movie 03/11 Schickel on Scorsese 03/04 ‘The Adjustment Bureau’: Fate Accompli 02/21 Columbus, Marx and Zinn Go to Bolivia 01/28 2010: The Year of Staggering Irrelevance in Oscarland 201012/30 2010: Best of the Big Screen 12/27 ‘Another Year’: The Tragedy of Everyday Life 12/17 ‘How Do You Know’: Resistance Is Futile 12/10 Three ‘Company Men’ and a Pink Slip 11/25 Speak, Royalty 11/19 ‘White Material’: Portrait of the Colonist in a Post-Colonial Land 11/08 ‘Fair Game’: Spying in the Suburbs 11/06 ‘Client 9’: The Rehabilitation of Eliot Spitzer 10/17 ‘Carlos’: A Different Kind of Terrorism 10/08 A Glimpse Into the Heart of a Rotten System 09/24 Wall Street Revisited: Greed Is Good and Dull 08/19 ‘The Tillman Story’: Myth, Mystery and Celebrity 07/29 ‘Countdown to Zero’—or Apocalypse, Whichever Comes First Publications
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