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Post by Richard Kimble on Feb 20, 2017 3:25:24 GMT
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Feb 20, 2017 3:38:07 GMT
Schickel was an exceptional writer and he understood how to decipher the essence of movies. For instance, no matter what one makes of his Clint Eastwood: A Biography (1996) as an overall work, his ability to assess the value and nature of each of Eastwood's movies, and to identify the meaning of each one to Eastwood's career, is virtually unerring.
He also wrote and directed several documentaries, in addition to producing.
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Post by telegonus on Feb 20, 2017 5:28:48 GMT
RIP, Richard Schickel. He was a better writer on film than most of his generation. I've been reading him since I was a teenager.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 8:57:08 GMT
I was able to ask him a question at a screening of a Charles Chaplin Documentary, NYC, mid 2000's.
RIP.
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Post by goodfella2459 on Feb 20, 2017 15:26:04 GMT
Saddened to hear. RIP.
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Post by marianne48 on Feb 21, 2017 0:07:48 GMT
The first "serious" film critic I can remember--as a kid I was introduced to film criticism through the PBS showings of his documentary series, The Men Who Made the Movies. There I learned that Hitchcock, Capra and others didn't just make
fun stuff to watch, but were actually creating art. R.I.P.
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Post by petrolino on Feb 24, 2017 21:46:02 GMT
Richard Schickel was from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A man of many talents.
Richard Schickel R.I.P.
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