Richard Schickel Movies

The story of American film criticism.

Brilliant, long in-the-works story of the life and art of the world's greatest comedian and the cinema's first genius, Charlie Chaplin. Produced,...

Autobiography of Clint Eastwood up to his movie "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."

A loving tribute to Astaire the singer, hosted by Audrey Hepburn.

During the filming of Ragtime, the 81-year old Cagney talks about his career. Cagney tells us about becoming a dancer and meeting his wife, his route...

A documentary on Alfred Hitchcock's 1941 film, "Suspicion".

A retrospective look at Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train.

Feature-lenght documentary, divided in three episodes (Storm rising, Storm chaser and Eye of the storm), describing the making of Ryan's Daughter as...

Short documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

Documentary short focusing on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1953 film I Confess.

From its simple beginnings in 1939 in a sleepy beach town in the south of France, the prestigious Cannes Film Festival has become the must-attend red...

A profile of writer-director Billy Wilder

Documentary about the efforts to reconstruct Sam Fuller's The Big Red One closer to the film Fuller had originally envisioned.

For 35 years Clint Eastwood has called Warner Bros. home. In The Eastwood Factor, film historian Richard Schickel ventures beyond Eastwood’s...

Documentary short on Marlon Brando included in the DVD extras of The Streetcar Named Desire.

Widely thought of as “a woman’s director,” legendary film director George Cukor is profiled with the use of film clips and...

A look at the cinematographers, editors, musicians, production designers and other talent of the Dirty Harry series.

Documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock’s "The Wrong Man."

Documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 'Notorious' (1946).