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- It criticizes the “excesses” of “the Cahiers du Cinema crowd,” who developed the auteur theory and tried to prove that Hollywood genre films dismissed in their home country as “mere” entertainment were in fact personally expressive art that bore the "signatures" of their directors and were worthy of close study for those reasons.
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Feb 21, 2017 · As the baby-boom audience created a cultural shift that was reflected in films, critics like Schickel championed a new generation of filmmakers. Still, Schickel had standards, whether about...
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Feb 20, 2017 · Richard Schickel, whose erudite prose and piercing critiques made him one of America’s most important film critics in an era when cinema became increasingly ingrained in the cultural...
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Feb 20, 2017 · Schickel also wrote about movies for Time magazine for 45 years, making him the magazine’s longest consecutively serving critic. He and his fellow Time film critic Richard Corliss, who died in 2015, were towering figures to a lot of young cinephiles who came up in the middle part of the 20 th century.
Witty, analytical, tough-minded but always fair, a gifted stylist who believed in honesty but steered clear of cheap shots, Schickel was a model critic for half a century, most of it as Time ...
DVD commentaries. See also. References. External links. 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.
Feb 22, 2017 · Sadly, Richard Schickel — the film critic, documentarian and author of dozens of books — passed away over Presidents’ Day weekend. From 1965 to 2010, he served as a critic for Life and Time...
Feb 20, 2017 · Richard Schickel, a film critic for Time magazine whose reviews — and essays, books and documentary films — combined a straightforward literary style with a seemingly encyclopedic knowledge of...
