Vale Joel Schumacher – the Hollywood legend who brought us brat packs, teen vampires and Falling Down
- Written by Ben McCann, Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide
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Joel Schumacher, who has died aged 80 in New York, never won an Oscar.
He began drinking aged nine and spent the last years of his life apologising for having made Batman and Robin (1997). He was once described in The Village Voice as a “well-oiled toxic-waste machine”.
And yet Schumacher’s body of work is...