Richard Corliss

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Richard Nelson Corliss (born March 6, 1944 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † April 23, 2015 in New York City , New York ) was an American film critic and author .

Life

Corliss studied at Saint Joseph's University and film studies at Columbia University . From the mid-1960s he wrote for various magazines such as National Review and Maclean’s , before he was editor-in-chief of the film magazine Film Comment from 1970 to 1982 , which primarily dealt with film culture and reviews of art films. However, his name is mainly associated with Time magazine, where he was the chief film critic from 1980 until his death. In addition to his film reviews, he also wrote personal profiles, essays on popular culture, and reviews of television and theater productions.

Corliss was critical of the auteur theory and particularly emphasized the importance of screenwriters for the creation of a film. Corliss' film taste spanned art films by Ingmar Bergman , Werner Herzog , Rainer Werner Fassbinder and from Asia, as well as action films by Jackie Chan and Pixar animation films . After his first review of Star Wars was negative, he later gave positive reviews to other works by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg . He had a particular aversion to films like Billy Elliot and Cinema Paradiso , which he regarded as sentimental and pleasing audience favorites. In 1990 he published an essay in which he regarded the "upscale film criticism" as endangered, which asks more than just whether a movie is worth the time and money to visit.

In addition to his work as a contemporary film critic, Corliss also published several books on film studies: Talking Pictures (1974), in which he examined the history and importance of American screenwriters; Greta Garbo (1974) on the film legend ; Lolita (1994), a book about the literary adaptation of the same name by Stanley Kubrick , and Mom in the Movies: The Iconic Screen Mothers You Love and a Few You Love to Hate (2014), in which he deals with the portrayal of mothers in Hollywood Cinema grappled. Together with his Time critic Richard Schickel , Corliss compiled the Time selection of the best 100 films from 1923 to 2005 in 2005 .

Richard Corliss, who worked as a film critic until the last weeks of his life, died of a severe stroke in April 2015 at the age of 71 . He was married to Mary Yushak Corliss, a longtime film curator at the Museum of Modern Art , from 1969 until his death .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Corliss, TIME Movie Critic for 35 Years, Dies at 71. In: TIME.com. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Bruce Weber: Richard Corliss, 71, Longtime Film Critic for Time, Dies . In: The New York Times . April 24, 2015, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed June 2, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Bruce Weber: Richard Corliss, 71, Longtime Film Critic for Time, Dies . In: The New York Times . April 24, 2015, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed June 2, 2020]).
  4. ^ Richard Corliss, TIME Movie Critic for 35 Years, Dies at 71. In: TIME.com. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Bruce Weber: Richard Corliss, 71, Longtime Film Critic for Time, Dies . In: The New York Times . April 24, 2015, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed June 2, 2020]).
  6. ^ Richard Corliss, TIME Movie Critic for 35 Years, Dies at 71. In: TIME.com. Retrieved June 2, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Bruce Weber: Richard Corliss, 71, Longtime Film Critic for Time, Dies . In: The New York Times . April 24, 2015, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed June 2, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Corliss, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Corliss, Richard Nelson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film critic and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , United States
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 2015
Place of death New York City , New York , United States