Word: corliss
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...list of influences on Pixar's new film Up, from Dumbo to The Wizard of Oz, Richard Corliss overlooks another, earlier source of inspiration [May 18]. This is animation pioneer Winsor McCay's 1921 short film, in his Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend series, called The Flying House, in which the protagonist dreams that her husband adds wings and a propeller to their home and flies away into the universe to escape foreclosure. M. Thomas Inge, ASHLAND...
...surpassed most predictions by earning $68.2 million this weekend, according to official projections. Buoyed by higher ticket prices in theaters showing the 3-D version and rhapsodic reviews that tallied a 98% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Up scored the strongest Pixar opening since The Incredibles in 2004. (See Corliss's picks for the top 10 Pixar voice-over artists...
...Richard Corliss' reviews from the 62nd annual Cannes Film Festival
...mystery how this bold, striking star-in-the-making avoided Hollywood's eye for 15 years, but for off-Hollywood, off-kilter dramas, Swinton has been the go-to lass - the queen of the indies. (See a multi-media analysis of 78 years of Oscar by Richard Corliss...
...Roddenberry was fond of moral and political lessons declaimed by actors in pastel polyesters; that was, after all, the late 1960s, an epoch so distant that the word irony hadn't yet been invented. Solemn homilies had to be replaced by gritty action, and thinky by feelie. (Read Richard Corliss' reviews of the original Star Trek TV series, season by season...