Richard Schickel
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.
Acted in
Brats
2024
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hawks on Hawks
2017
as Self (archive footage)
Walt Disney
2015
as Self
Woody Allen: A Documentary
2011
as Self
BBStory: An American Film Renaissance
2010
as Self
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen
2010
as Self
Behind The Gates: Cary Grant And Grace Kelly
2009
as Self
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism
2009
as Self
In the Beginning: Quo Vadis and the Genesis of the Biblical Epic
2008
as Himself
The Ultimate Romance: The Making of 'Notorious'
2008
The Making of 'Rebecca'
2008
as Self
A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
2008
as Self
The Long Shadow of Dirty Harry
2008
as Self
The Evolution of Clint Eastwood
2008
as Self
The Craft of Dirty Harry
2008
as Self
Fog City Mavericks
2007
as Self
Mystery Street: Murder at Harvard
2007
Where Danger Lives: White Rose for Julie
2007
Illegal: Marked for Life
2007
as Self
Side Street: Where Temptation Lurks
2007
as Self
Crime Wave: The City Is Dark
2007
as Self
The Road to Damascus: The Reinvention of Bugsy Siegel
2006
as Self
Shadows of Suspense
2006
as Self
Censorship and Desire
2006
as Self
Ask the Dust
2006
as H. L. Mencken (voice)
The Making of Ryan's Daughter
2006
as Self
A Streetcar in Hollywood
2006
as Self
A Streetcar on Broadway
2006
as Self
East of Eden: Art in Search of Life
2005
as Himself
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005
as Self - Author and Time Film Critic
Hitchcock and Dial M
2004
as Self
Before the Fact: Suspicious Hitchcock
2004
as Self
Hitchcock's Confession: A Look at I Confess
2004
as Self
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'
2004
as Self
Mr. Hitchcock Meets the Smiths
2004
as Self
Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright'
2004
as Self
Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic
2004
as Self
Leone's West
2004
as Self
Contender: Mastering the Method
2001
as Self
Play It Again: A Look Back at 'Play Misty for Me'
2001
as Self
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001
as Self
The Beguiled, Misty, Don & Clint
2001
as Self
On Cukor
2000
as Self
Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows
2000
as Self - 'Time' Critic and Clint Eastwood Biographer
Backstory
2000
as Self - film critic
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
1998
as Self
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
1997
as Self - Film Historian
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
as Self
The Fred Astaire Songbook
1991
as Self