Career
Corliss wrote for many magazines—National Review from 1966–1970, New Times, Maclean's and SoHo Weekly News in 1980. At Film Comment, Corliss helped draw attention to the screenwriter in the creation of movies. Corliss challenged Andrew Sarris's idea of the Director as author or auteur of this work. Corliss was one of Sarris's students at NYU and remains good friends with Sarris. Corliss also brought Jonathan Rosenbaum to Film Comment as a Paris correspondent. Despite working for National Review, a conservative magazine, Corliss is a self described "liberal."
In 1980, Corliss joined Time. Though he started as an associate editor, he was promoted to senior writer by 1985. Corliss has written many cover stories for Time. His subjects have been Star Wars movies The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, Andrew Weil, Michael Moore, Ronald Reagan, Russell Crowe, Johnny Cash, The Matrix Reloaded, vegetarianism, yoga, The Blair Witch Project, Oprah Winfrey, Jim Carrey, Steven Spielberg twice, DreamWorks, talk radio, the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike, the campaign against smoking, Candice Bergen, the divorce of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen, David Lynch, Pornography, Tom Cruise, Kevin Costner, Mississippi Burning, Disney, Fatal Attraction, Steve Martin, Platoon, The Hidden Treasure Trove, Sigourney Weaver, Molly Ringwald, NBC, Nastassja Kinski, the new idea of beauty, On Golden Pond, Nicholas Nickleby, and TV's Dallas.
Corliss writes for time.com as well as the print magazine including a retired column about nostalgic pop culture called That Old Feeling. Corliss has also writes occasional articles for Time Asia. In recent times, Corliss has criticized critics for being snobby and the Oscars for being too elite, that being the reason their ratings have suffered as of late. However, Corliss did say in his criticisms that his own taste is not much different.
Corliss has been a guest on Charlie Rose's show a total of 14 times commenting on new releases, most of these times during the 1990s with Janet Maslin and David Denby. His most recent appearance on the show was in December 2005 to talk about the year in film. Corliss also appeared on A&E Biography to talk about the life and work of Jackie Chan. He also appeared in Richard Schickel's documentary about Warner Brothers.
Corliss has attended the Cannes Film Festival along with Roger Ebert and Todd McCarthy for the longest period of any US journalist. Today he blogs from Cannes at Time.com. He also attends festivals in Toronto and Venice. 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.
Lolita, Corliss's third book was a study Vladimir Nabokov's book and Stanley Kubrick's film. More recently Corliss has written an introductory essay for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: A Portrait of Ang Lee's Epic Flim.
Corliss is also a fan of Pixar movies, including listing Finding Nemo as one of his and fellow Time critic Richard Schickel's 100 all time greatest movies. With recent Pixar releases Cars and Ratatouille Corliss has had access into the studio's inner workings. Pixar director Brad Bird has said of critics in general that he has "got nothing against critics." He also that he had "done very well with them, over the years."
In addition to writing for Time, Corliss has had a lengthy association with Film Comment magazine, serving as its editor from 1970 to 1990. Corliss covers movies for the magazine and for time.com simultaneously. Corliss along with Martin Scorsese first came up with the idea for the issue on "guilty pleasures".
Corliss along with Richard Schickel made a 100 Greatest movies list. Corliss alone created lists of the 25 greatest villains, the 25 best horror films, and the 25 most important films on race. In addition Corliss was on the 2001 jury for AFI's 100 Greatest movies list.
Most of Corliss's body of work is about movies, but during the 1990s, episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and The Simpsons frequented his Film Comment top tens.
In a 1993 Time magazine movie review of The Crying Game, Corliss subtly gave away the spoiler of the film, by spelling it out with the first letters of each paragraph of his review.
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