Richard Schickel Movies

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...

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

Career overview of Hollywood legend Frank Capra by Time magazine film critic Richard Schickel.

The making of Quo Vadis (1951).

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

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

A profile of writer-director Billy Wilder

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

Martin Scorsese discusses his personal background and his filmography as they relate to each other.

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

In 1972 and '73, film critic Richard Schickel made an 8-part series for American public television: 'The Men Who Made the Movies'. Each episode...

A remarkable film that takes a special look at the first war to be truly reported and recorded by one of the more unsung heroes of World War II: the...

The story of American film criticism.

Film critic Richard Schickel interviews Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg about his craft, his body of work and the movie business.

This tribute to Myrna Loy is organized chronologically with a few photographs, many film clips, a handful of personal appearances, and a detailed...

A history of horror movies.

How the play was adapted to Film

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

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

Documentary about film.