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Get out the boxing gloves: Richard Schickel vs. Robert Altman: My primary problem with the review is that if Sc.. http://bit.ly/1NvsRl 24 days ago |
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Altman Forever
Hollywood Elsewhere —
Altman Forever Responding to a fierce putdown of the late Robert Altman by Time 's Richard Schickel in a review of Mitchell Zuckoff 's Robert Altman: The Oral Biography , director Alan Rudolph has written an equally stern rebuke . Earlier today L.A. Times columnist Patrick Goldstein posted the Rudolph letter and laid into Schickel also . "The power of a major artist is that he or she is a force, standard, guide," Rudolph wrote. "What [Schickel] doesn't grasp is that great artists always lead the way. The torch gets passed, the message ...
Richard Schickel Takes On Robert Altman
The Moviezzz Blog —
In an L.A. Times review of the new Robert Altman biography, Richard Schickel went on an attack on Altman and his films. He writes of Altman: "When he was not drinking heavily, he was smoking dope -- often doing both simultaneously" He writes of the author Mitchel Zuckoff, "Zuckoff basically knows nothing about filmmaking and film history" So, it wasn't a positive review. The L.A. Times Hollywood blog has a story on it, and Alan Rudolph's response. I was never the biggest Altman fan. For a "great" director, he made ...
How to diss the dead.
IFC.com - Indie Eye —
... at the LA Times , who spends, oh, about a paragraph of his 939-word review actually talking about the book before rambling off about how terrible Altman's movies are, and what a jerk he was to so little end. Schickel likes "McCabe & Mrs. Miller," "Nashville," "California Split" and that's it. The rest of Altman's movies are "solipsistic," like being "trapped in someone else's not-very-interesting drug haze." The article's prompted some LA Times infighting, with filmmaker Alan Rudolph ("Afterglow," "The Secret Lives of Dentists") writing in to defend his mentor from the ...
How many Schickels is an Altman worth?
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... ’s take and then Patrick Goldstein’s critique and defense of Altman, which also includes a letter from Altman’s one-time protegee, Alan Rudolph, a pretty strong and prolific filmmaker in his own right. ...
BUFFALO BOB AND THE INFIDEL: ALTMAN'S LEGACY vs. SCHICKEL'S POISON PEN
Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule —
... and other Internet-based film writers for—shoddy journalistic tactics and the inability or unwillingness to back up their grandstanding, attention-grabbing claims. It’s incredible to me not only that Schickel would construct a dismissal of a major filmmaker’s career on such flimsy grounds, but that the editor responsible for printing it in the Los Angeles Times would not, as Times blogger Patrick Goldstein eventually did, call him out on it and simply reject the piece on grounds of insufficient journalistic standards. (Goldstein also provided a forum for Alan ...
Robert Altman: An Annotated Webliography
Shooting Down Pictures —
... were trapped in someone else’s not-very-interesting drug haze.
- Richard Schickel, The Los Angeles Times, October 22 2009
Responding to a fierce putdown of the late Robert Altman by Time’s Richard Schickel in a review ofMitchell Zuckoff’s Robert Altman: The Oral Biography, director Alan Rudolph has written anequally stern rebuke.
Earlier today L.A. Times columnist Patrick Goldstein ...
