Richard Schickel
Richard Warren Schickel (born February 10, 1933 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin , † February 18, 2017 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American writer , documentary filmmaker and film critic .
Life
Richard Schickel attended Wauwatosa East High School in Wauwatosa . He worked as a film critic for Life since the early 1960s and then for Time from 1965 to 2009 , but also wrote many books on film studies on the side. In addition, he published his film reviews on the Internet. Together with Richard Corliss , he made the Time selection of the best 100 films from 1923 to 2005 in 2005 .
His production company Lorac Productions created documentaries about film history and personalities right up to the end. There are comments from him on a number of DVD editions.
On February 18, 2017, Schickel died of complications from a series of strokes in Los Angeles.
Works (selection)
Books
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The Disney version. The Life, Times, Art and Commerce of Walt Disney . Dee Books, Chicago, Ill. 1997, ISBN 1-566-63158-0 (EA New York 1968).
- Disney's world. Walt Disney's time, life, art and commerce . Kadmos-Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-931659-10-0 .
- His Picture In The Papers. A Speculation on Celebrity in America Based on the Life of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Charterhouse Books, New York 1974, ISBN 0-88327-026-9 .
- DW Griffith . American Life . Simon & Schuster, New York 1984, ISBN 0-671-22596-0 .
- Intimate Strangers. The Culture of Celebrity . Dee Books, Chicago, Ill. 1985, ISBN 1-566-63317-6
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Brando . A Life in Our Times . Curley Books, South Yarmoiuth, Ma. 1991, ISBN 0-7927-1240-4 .
- Marlon Brando. Tango of life . Heyne, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-453-08384-9 .
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Clint Eastwood . A biography . Knopf, New York 1996, ISBN 0-679-42974-3 .
- Clint Eastwood. A biography . Goldmann, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-442-12763-7 .
- Good morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip. Movies, Memory and World War II . Dee Books, Chicago, Ill. 2003, ISBN 1-566-63491-1 .
- Elia Kazan . A biography . HarperCollins, New York 2005, ISBN 0-06-019579-7 .
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Clint. A retrospective . Sterling Press, New York 2010, ISBN 978-1-4027-7472-0 .
- Clint Eastwood. A retrospective; "I'm just a guy who makes films" . Edel-Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-941378-58-2 .
- Conversations with Scorsese . Knopf, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-307-26840-2 .
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Steven Spielberg . A retrospective . Sterling Press, New York 2012, ISBN 978-1-4027-9650-0 .
- Steven Spielberg . His films, his life. Knesebeck, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86873-421-8 .
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You must remember this. The Warner Bros. Running Press, Philadelphia 2008, ISBN 978-0-7624-3418-3 .
- You must remember this. The Warner Bros. Story . Verlag Bucher, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7658-1734-2 .
Documentation
- Charlie, The Art and Life of Charles Chaplin
- The Eastwood Factor
Web links
- Richard Schickel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Richard Schickel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entries in WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Carmel Dagan: Richard Schickel, Influential Time Magazine Film Critic, Dies at 84. In: Variety . Penske Media Corporation, February 19, 2017, accessed February 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Reviews on truthdig.com
- ↑ Info on the website ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Schickel, Richard |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schickel, Richard Warren (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer, documentary filmmaker, and film critic |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1933 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Milwaukee , Wisconsin , United States |
DATE OF DEATH | 18th February 2017 |
Place of death | Los Angeles , California , United States |