Movies: Richard Schickel

2008
A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry (2008)
A Moral Right: The Politics of Dirty Harry
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Filmmakers, social scientists and authors take a provocative look at the moral, political and ethical themes of the Dirty Harry films....
1999
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars: America's Greatest Screen Legends (1999)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars: America's Greatest Screen Legends
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The spectacular CBS special! Shirley Temple Black hosts the festivities as 50 of today's top stars count down the 50 greatest screen legends of all time. Features Clint Eastwood, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Kevin Spacey and many others....
1997
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western (1997)
Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
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Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western....
2006
A Streetcar on Broadway (2006)
A Streetcar on Broadway
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Interviews and photos about the play on Broadway...
2006
A Streetcar in Hollywood (2006)
A Streetcar in Hollywood
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How the play was adapted to Film...
2004
Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright' (2004)
Hitchcock and 'Stage Fright'
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Documentary about film....
2004
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man' (2004)
Guilt Trip: Hitchcock and 'The Wrong Man'
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Documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock’s "The Wrong Man."...
1973
The Men Who Made the Movies: Raoul Walsh (1973)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Raoul Walsh
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In 1972 and '73, film critic Richard Schickel made an 8-part series for American public television: 'The Men Who Made the Movies'. Each episode featured a prominent Hollywood director discussing his career in an on-camera monologue (actually an inter...
1979
The Horror Show (1979)
The Horror Show
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A history of horror movies....
2005
The Real Glory: Reconstructing 'The Big Red One' (2005)
The Real Glory: Reconstructing 'The Big Red One'
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Documentary about the efforts to reconstruct Sam Fuller's The Big Red One closer to the film Fuller had originally envisioned....
1987
Minnelli on Minnelli: Liza Remembers Vincente (1987)
Minnelli on Minnelli: Liza Remembers Vincente
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Tribute to film director Vincente Minnelli by his daughter Liza....
2000
On Cukor (2000)
On Cukor
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Widely thought of as “a woman’s director,” legendary film director George Cukor is profiled with the use of film clips and interviews with his friends and colleagues to provide a picture of the director’s unique accomplishments and to trace the arc o...
2008
In the Beginning: Quo Vadis and the Genesis of the Biblical Epic (2008)
In the Beginning: Quo Vadis and the Genesis of the Biblical Epic
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The making of Quo Vadis (1951)....
1998
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy (1998)
Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy
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A profile of writer-director Billy Wilder...
2001
The Beguiled, Misty, Don & Clint (2001)
The Beguiled, Misty, Don & Clint
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Short featurette showcasing Clint Eastwood, film historian and critic Richard Schickel and producer Robert Daley, who speak about Eastwood’s work as an actor, as well as other characters he portrayed at that time....
2004
Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic (2004)
Strangers on a Train: A Hitchcock Classic
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A retrospective look at Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train....
2002
Eastwood... A Star (2002)
Eastwood... A Star
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A look back at Clint Eastwood's career from the release of Unforgiven (1992)...
1981
James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy (1981)
James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy
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During the filming of Ragtime, the 81-year old Cagney talks about his career. Cagney tells us about becoming a dancer and meeting his wife, his route from Broadway to Hollywood, the emergence of his tough-guy persona, and his post-war creations of in...
2004
Leone's West (2004)
Leone's West
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Making-of documentary for Sergio Leone's landmark spaghetti western "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."...
2001
Contender: Mastering the Method (2001)
Contender: Mastering the Method
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An in-depth analysis and celebration of the famous "I coulda been a contender" scene between Marlon Brando and Rod Steiger in the 1954 film "On the Waterfront"....