Richard Nelson Corliss was an American film critic and magazine editor for Time.
18 Facts About Richard Corliss
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Richard Corliss focused on movies, with occasional articles on other subjects.
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Richard Corliss was the former editor-in-chief of Film Comment and authored several books including Talking Pictures, which, along with other publications, drew early attention to the screenwriter, as opposed to the director.
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Richard Corliss attended St Joseph's College, Philadelphia, obtaining a bachelor's degree, before progressing to Columbia University to earn a master's degree in film studies.
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Richard Corliss resided in New York City with his wife, Mary, whom he married on Sunday, August 31,1969.
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At Film Comment, Richard Corliss helped draw attention to the screenwriter in the creation of movies.
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Richard Corliss challenged Andrew Sarris's idea of the Director as author or auteur of this work.
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Richard Corliss was one of Sarris' students at New York University ; the two remained friends until Sarris' death.
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Richard Corliss brought Jonathan Rosenbaum to Film Comment as a Paris correspondent.
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Richard Corliss was an occasional guest on Charlie Rose's talk show commenting on new releases, mostly during the 1990s with Janet Maslin and David Denby.
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Richard Corliss attended the Cannes Film Festival along with Roger Ebert and Todd McCarthy for the longest period of any US journalist.
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Corliss used to work on the board of the New York Film Festival, but resigned in 1987 after longtime head Richard Roud was fired due to his challenging of editorial direction of the festival.
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Lolita, Richard Corliss's third book, was a study of Vladimir Nabokov's book and Stanley Kubrick's film.
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Later Richard Corliss has written an introductory essay for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: A Portrait of the Ang Lee Film.
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Corliss along with Richard Schickel made a 100 Greatest movies list.
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Richard Corliss alone created lists of the 25 greatest villains, the 25 best horror films, and the 25 most important films on race.
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Corliss had movies on his top ten lists that fellow Time critic Richard Schickel rated the worst of the year.
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Richard Corliss appears in the 2009 documentary film For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism, confessing that he was the film critic who, in the 1970s, coined the term "Paulettes" for the ardent followers of Pauline Kael, a label which has stuck.