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Richard Warren Schickelwas 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.
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Richard Warren Schickelwas 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.
7 Quotes by Richard Schickel
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A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.
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This is a soul under perpetual migraine attack.
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A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
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That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.
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Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.
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He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own.
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The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective.
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