Word: schickele
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...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...
...guys in a car meet a girl on the road and by the end of the film they've surprised themselves.' That's a Sundance film," says TIME film critic Richard Schickel, only half-jokingly. You know you're no longer a young, upstart event when your name has become critical shorthand. "To me a 'Sundance' film is sort of a sober independent taking itself very seriously," says Schickel. "Of course, sometimes things come out that are quite wonderful." In past years that list has included "Betty Blue," "Sex, Lies and Videotape," "Reservoir Dogs" and last year's "Gods...
...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...
...Richard Schickel...
Having Richard Schickel write about Walt Disney is the equivalent of having the wicked stepmother critique Cinderella. What were you expecting from a noted anti-Disney author like Schickel? Disney, a man who made us laugh, who was called "Uncle" by generations of American children, who built an empire with his brother and revolutionized corporate America (Where would the 1990s be without synergy or branding?), deserved better. JOSH P. EDWARDS Naples, Maine