Word: schickel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Richard Schickel...
...presented in such an agreeable way that even this conclusion is vague. For some reason Story has been nominated for an Oscar as Best Foreign Film. This probably says less about the movie than it does about the possibilities of getting a decent French meal around Los Angeles. -Richard Schickel...
...interviewing an M.I.T. disarmament expert for TIME, I couldn't help thinking of Sellers' Dr. Strangelove. And his Inspector Clouseau defined my first encounter with a French police detective." But when Burton interviewed Sellers in Paris for this week's cover story, written by Contributor Richard Schickel, she found her subject to be maddeningly elusive. "He doesn't like to talk about himself, and when he does, his manner of expression often does not translate into print. Generally, he is a reporter's nightmare...
...dreary man in a drab milieu. Most of Bancroft's staging seems a desperate attempt to narrow the distance between actor and auditors, but it comes out merely as frenzy. And there are far too many close-ups of the food that keeps tempting her fat friend. -Richard Schickel...
...that is morally acute. As in much of his other work (notably the scripts of Taxi Driver and Old Boyfriends), Schrader simply refuses to face the grim, climactic consequences of his essentially tragic vision. He manages to contract conjunctivitis just when he needs to be most clear-eyed. -Richard Schickel...