Quotes by Richard Corliss - Page 3

'Under the Skin' is handsome, in a dour way, but inert - a cunning experiment that died in the shooting or on the editing table. You'll want to get the DVD, though, and not just for its study of Scarlett. Odds are that the Making-Of documentary will be far stranger and more fascinating than the movie that was made.
Richard Corliss / Editor
Cunning
Editing
Fascinating
Handsome
Odds
Shooting
Stranger
Documentary
Experiment
Scarlett
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The typical baseball play is a pitcher throwing a ball and the batter not swinging at it, while the other players watch. Even a home run, the sport's defining big blast, is only metaphorically exciting; a fly ball that leaves the yard changes the score but may offer no more compelling view than an outfielder staring up.
Richard Corliss / Editor
Blast
Compelling
Defining
Home Run
Pitcher
Score
Throwing
Typical
Batter
Leaves
Swinging
Yard
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Throughout the movies' golden age, the Western enriched Hollywood financially and artistically. But in the 1970s, the genre lost its audience appeal to fantasy films of the 'Star Wars' stripe, which told more or less the same story - elemental animosities leading to an armed showdown - but at a faster tempo, and in outer space.
Richard Corliss / Editor
Audience
Fantasy
Faster
Genre
Golden
Golden Age
Hollywood
Lost
Outer Space
Tempo
Western
Appeal
Armed
Star
Wars
Elemental
Enriched
Films
Financially
Leading
More Or Less
Outer
Same Story
Star Wars
Stripe
Throughout
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No question that 'Birdman' is a breathtaking technical achievement, not a stunt. Shot in 30 days after a long rehearsal period, with the actors' and the camera's movements calibrated to the inch and the millisecond so the action flows smoothly, the picture has the jagged energy of a long guerrilla raid choreographed by Bob Fosse.
Richard Corliss / Editor
Achievement
Bob
Breathtaking
Rehearsal
Flows
Guerrilla
Inch
Jagged
Movements
No Question
Raid
Smoothly
Stunt
Technical
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If you think of the 1930s in film as the decade of Gable and Lombard, Cagney and Harlow, Stanwyck and the Marx Brothers, think again. The biggest star - No. 1 in the 1936, '37 and '38 exhibitor polls - was a three-time box-office champ before she was 10. Shirley Temple, singer, dancer, and prime exemplar of Movie Cute, owned the '30s.
Richard Corliss / Editor
Cute
Dancer
Polls
Biggest
Brothers
Cagney
Champ
Star
Decade
Singer
Marx
Owned
Shirley
Temple
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I first visited the Toronto fest in 1979, its fourth edition, when it was known as the Festival of Festivals and had an audience of about 40,000. I happily returned to the 10-day skein nearly every year thereafter, as attendance swelled to 400,000 and it grew into the most influential film festival in North America, perhaps the world.
Richard Corliss / Editor
Attendance
Fourth
Influential
North America
Toronto
Nearly
Edition
Festival
Film Festival
Happily
Returned
Thereafter
Visited
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In 'Blade Runner,' the here is quite enough: a vision of dark, cramped, urban squalor. This is Los Angeles in the year 2019, when most of the earth's inhabitants have colonized other planets, and only a polyglot refuse heap of humanity remains. Los Angeles is a Japanized nighttown of sleaze and silicon, fetid steam, and perpetual rain.
Richard Corliss / Editor
Blade Runner
Los Angeles
Perpetual
Planets
Rain
Remains
Silicon
Squalor
Steam
Urban
Angeles
Blade
Heap
Inhabitants
Los
Runner
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In my experience, copy editors, like the stalwart staff I've worked with and learned from in my 34 years at 'TIME,' are linguistic conservatives - the keepers of the flame ignited by the Strunk-White 'Elements of Style,' published in full in 1957 and chosen by 'TIME' as one of the 100 most influential nonfiction books of the past century.
Richard Corliss / Editor
Chosen
Editors
Elements
Influential
Nonfiction
Staff
Conservatives
Copy
Flame
Linguistic
Published
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Starring Russell Crowe as the Patron of the First Ark, 'Noah' had affronted some Christian literalists with its giant rock men, its weird visions, and the occasionally dark motives of its protagonist. But the film corralled enough religious leaders, including Pope Francis (with whom Crowe snagged an audience), to salve canonical objections.
Richard Corliss / Editor
Ark
Audience
Dark
Including
Objections
Patron
Pope
Religious Leaders
Weird
Francis
Giant
Motives
Rock
Noah
Occasionally
Protagonist
Russell
Russell Crowe
Visions
Whom
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John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land in the Western [United States]; the perfidy of banks in foreclosing on poor people's homes; and the insurgent urge of the book's protagonist, Tom Joad, to speak truth to police power. 'Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy,' Tom promises, 'I'll be there.' In Salinas, Calif., Ferguson, Mo., or Staten Island, N.Y., Tom's truth goes marching on.
Richard Corliss / Editor
Dream
Home
Book
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