Richard Schickel

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Richard Schickel
Schickel in 2000
Born	Richard Warren Schickel (1933-02-10)February 10, 1933 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Died	February 18, 2017(2017-02-18) (aged 84) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Film critic historian filmmaker
Alma mater	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Years active	1960–2015

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.^[1]