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Associate Editor Richard Corliss was 16 years old when a viewing of Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal in Corliss's native Philadelphia transformed a budding romance with film into a serious relationship. "I had grown up thinking of movies as something to eat popcorn with," says Corliss. "Bergman and the other European directors were the first ones to open my eyes to film as art." Though Corliss has since cut down on popcorn, his taste for movies has broadened to include "mass" as well as "class" films by directors in all parts of the world. His experience...
...Corliss, who views more than 500 films a year, is dismayed by what he sees as the "new conventionality and conformity" of the film industry. Says he: "Film makers have become more financially oriented, which means pandering to a younger audience with a taste for romantic comedies and slick horror films. At the current rate, senility should hit Hollywood about March of 1990." When he is not reviewing for TIME, Corliss is busy preparing new issues of Film Comment, a bimonthly journal (circ. 30,000) that he has edited since 1970. He has also written two books: Talking Pictures...
...three-page contribution to this week's cover package on Actress Meryl Streep, Corliss delved into the literary and structural artifices that characterize her new movie The French Lieutenant's Woman. Corliss, who also wrote last year's cover story on the prime-time television soap opera Dallas, found Harold Pinter's transmutation of John Fowles' multilayered novel into a film-within-a-film a challenging experiment. Concludes Corliss: "Because of its complexity and cerebral detachment, The French Lieutenant's Woman is a difficult film to fall in love with-but the performance...
...Richard Corliss. Reported by Arthur White/Lyme Regis
...what people have told me," he says. "If I make it to 40, 1 might be a good actor. With these three films, I think I've finally passed kindergarten in film acting - with honors, even. Now I want to see what first grade is like." - By Richard Corliss...