Richard Schickel

Richard Schickel, one of the nation's most influential film
critics, has been reviewing movies for TIME Magazine since
1972. Before that, he was the film critic for LIFE.

Schickel pursues a second career as a
producer-writer-director of television programs, beginning
with "The Men Who Made Movies", an eight-part PBS series,
which served as the basis for a book of the same title. His
filmography includes "Life Goes to the Movies", a three-hour
history of American movies in the sound era; "Funny
Business" and the "Horror Show", genre compilations
broadcast on CBS; "Into the Morning: Willa Cather's
American," a biography of the writer for PBS; and
biographical portraits of Vincente Minelli, the director
(PBS), and Gary Cooper, Myrna Loy and Barbara Stanwyck (all
for TNT), and most recently, a documentary on the making of
Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" for ABC and "Hollywood on
Hollywood", a history of movies about making movies for AMC.
He just finished "Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey", a
retrospective of the director's theater and film career.

Schickel was born in Milwaukee, educated at the University
of Wisconsin and lives in Los Angeles. He has two daughters.
He has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and is the winner of the
British Film Institute Book Prize.