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SENIOR WRITERS: Ezra Bowen, David Brand, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Gregory Jaynes, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Roger Rosenblatt, Walter Shapiro, R. Z. Sheppard, William E. Smith, Frank Trippett...
SENIOR WRITERS: Ezra Bowen, David Brand, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Gregory Jaynes, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Roger Rosenblatt, Walter Shapiro, R. Z. Sheppard, William E. Smith, Frank Trippett...
...Corliss likens his sojourn in Cannes to "summer camp in the dark." It was his 15th consecutive festival (he started attending in 1973). "In Cannes, critics mingle with charming men and beautiful women whose films they secretly plan to savage. For a fortnight on the Riviera, I had a great time...
Back in New York City, Corliss avoids film-industry receptions and social contacts with actors and actresses. "Critics by nature are antisocial beasts. We dodge movie stars because we don't want to believe that those huge gorgeous creatures on the screen are real, tiny people with real, tender feelings that could be dented by an offhand joke in print." Each week he sees an average of a dozen films, usually in screening rooms but sometimes in crowded Times Square theaters. "I like to slip into theaters unnoticed. On Broadway the audience's critical comments are often more piquant than...
Despite his familiarity with almost every aspect of the moviemaking business, Corliss has no interest in writing screenplays, directing, producing or acting. Says he: "I'm more analytic than creative. My main interest is batting out shapely prose that will inform the reader...