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...Richard Schickel...
Director Elia Kazan is like Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl: a great artist who did bad political deeds [CINEMA, March 8]. His art doesn't cancel out the evil he did in naming names of people who were involved with the Communist Party. Your writer Richard Schickel made the wrong argument in favor of Kazan's honorary Oscar. Schickel stated that Kazan's films are so good that they cancel out his misdeeds, saying history resists easy moralizing. The right argument is that Oscar should be about great art and cinematic achievement, and Kazan deserves the Oscar for that reason. MITCH...
...Richard Schickel...
...RICHARD SCHICKEL, a writer for TIME since 1972, has made a television documentary on Elia Kazan and has written a biography of Kazan's acting collaborator, Marlon Brando. Schickel is producing the tribute to Kazan that will air when the filmmaker receives a lifetime-achievement Oscar on March 21. This week Schickel explains why he admires Kazan despite the director's still controversial stance during the McCarthy...
...While the Sundance festival remains a crucial marketplace for smaller filmmakers to have their movies seen by distributors, the 10 days of fun, film and apr?s-ski has become something of an industry clich?. "It's brilliantly scheduled, since January is a bummer month for the business," says Schickel, who, as in past years, will remain in Los Angeles for the duration. "There's a pressure that's now placed on this event, everyone racing around trying to pick up titles for next year's release. And all that frantic buzz! The worst aspects of Hollywood are collected up there...