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Authors: Richard Schickel
Conversations with Scorsese (78 page)
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Richard Schickel is the author, co-author, or editor of thirty-six books and the writer-director-producer of a similar number of television documentaries. Most of his work concerns filmmakers and film history.
Among his best-known books are
Elia Kazan: A Biography, D. W. Griffith: An American Life, Clint Eastwood: A Biography, The Disney Version, Brando: A Life in Our Times, Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity, His Picture in the Papers
, and his memoir,
Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip
.
His films include the epic five-hour history of Warner Bros.,
You Must Remember This
, as well as
Charlie: The Art and Life of Charles Chaplin
and, most recently,
The Eastwood Factor
. He has also made twenty profiles of the major American directors, including Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Elia Kazan, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg. His reconstruction of Sam Fuller’s
The Big Red One
, which restored forty-five lost minutes to the film, won many awards when it was released in 2004.
A film critic for
Life
and
Time
magazines for forty-three years, Mr. Schickel has held a Guggenheim Fellowship and was awarded an honorary degree by the American Film Institute. He has won the British Film Institute Book Prize, the Maurice Bessy Award in film criticism, the William K. Everson Award from the National Board of Review, and the Telluride Silver Medal, the latter two for his contributions to film history. He lives in Los Angeles.
ALSO BY RICHARD SCHICKEL
Clint: A Retrospective
Film on Paper
The Essential Chaplin
(ed.)
Elia Kazan: A Biography
Woody Allen: A Life in Film
Good Morning, Mr. Zip Zip Zip: Movies, Memory and World War II
Matinee Idylls: Reflections on the Movies
Double Indemnity
Clint Eastwood: A Biography
Brando: A Life in Our Times
Striking Poses
Schickel on Film
D. W. Griffith: An American Life
Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity
James Cagney: A Celebration
Cary Grant: A Celebration
Another I, Another You
Harold Lloyd: The Shape of Laughter
Second Sight: Notes on Some Movies, 1965–1970
His Picture in the Papers
The Men Who Made the Movies
The Disney Version
The Stars
