| Publication Overview Richard Schickel is a film critic, documentary film maker and movie historian, who has written over 30 books, among them The Disney Version; His Picture in the Papers:D.W. Griffith: An American Life; Brando: A Life in Our Times; Matinee Idylls and Good Morning Mr Zip Zip Zip. His 30 documentaries include Charlie:The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin; Woody Allen: A Life in Film, and Scorsese on Scorsese, which was the 18th in the series of portraits of American film directors he has made over the course of his career. His biography of Elia Kazan will be published in the fall of 2005, while Watch the Skies!, a history of 1950s Science Fiction will premiere on TCM July 5, 2005. His reconstruction of Sam Fuller's classic war film, The Big Red One, has been an international success, listed as one of the years 10 BestMovies by the New York Times and winning awards from The National Society of Film Critics, the Los Angeles and Seattle Film Critics Associations and Anthology Film Archives. He has been reviewing movies for Time since 1972 and writes a monthly column, 'Film on Paper', for the Los Angeles Times Book Review. He was awarded the British Film Institute Book Prize, the Maurice Bessy prize for film criticism, and the National Board of Review's William K. Everson Award for his contributions to film history.
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