Word: corliss
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Thanks for your perceptive article on the controversy over Hoop Dreams' not getting an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature [Show Business, Feb. 27]. However, Richard Corliss referred to the possibility that the documentary nominating committee may have preferred a no-risk, PBS-style format," and I feel it necessary to set the record straight: Hoop Dreams, in fact, is a public-broadcasting project. It was a co-production of St. Paul's Twin Cities Public Television and Chicago's Kartemquin Educational Films, and was funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS (among others). This risk-taking film...
...stories in the cover package were written by "the two Richards" of TIME's cinematic realm. In New York City senior writer Richard Corliss wove together the main story, while Los Angeles-based critic Richard Schickel commented on what all this has to do with the Oscars, and vice versa...
...marriage, five children and the frustrations of living on the dole in Auckland, New Zealand, leave their scars -- as do Jake's fists, when too much liquor primes the rage within him. Why, then, has "Once Were Warriors" become New Zealand's all-time homemade hit? TIME critic Richard Corliss says director Lee Tamahori's film combines "toxic love" with "the lure of ethnographic exoticism." The characters are Maori, dispossessed chieftains and princesses now confined to gray city slums. "The film is a social tragedy, observed in love and pain," Corliss says. "'By the end, 'Once Were Warriors' has left...
...marriage, five children and the frustrations of living on the dole in Auckland, New Zealand, leave their scars -- as do Jake's fists, when too much liquor primes the rage within him. Why, then, has "Once Were Warriors" become New Zealand's all-time homemade hit? TIME critic Richard Corliss says director Lee Tamahori's film combines "toxic love" with "the lure of ethnographic exoticism." The characters are Maori, dispossessed chieftains and princesses now confined to gray city slums. "The film is a social tragedy, observed in love and pain," Corliss says. "'By the end, 'Once Were Warriors' has left...
...child abuse by Catholic clergy in Newfoundland during the 1960s. Airing in two parts -- Sunday and Monday -- on A&E (check local listings), the graphic drama raises troubling questions about the physical pain experienced by the young boys and the mental agony tormenting their abusers. TIME critic Richard Corliss describes it as "the most compelling, repellent and edifying horror movie of the decade," one with a complex message. The heroes in this film are "small, frightened boys or grown men who need to see righteous revenge achieved for the boys they once were...