Corliss Unbound A Collection of Quirky Pieces by TIMEs Inimitable Critic
When you work with a film critic long enough, you learn a lot about what he loves. Luckily for us, Richard Corliss's loves are well documented. Here's a selection of some of our favorite offbeat, passionate pieces from the Corliss archive. Corliss loved animated films. Loved them The 25 Best All-TIME Animated Films, He could always be counted on to mark an important film's anniversary. Here he remembers Blade Runner on its 30th birthday Celebrating Ridley Scott's Dystopian Vision, And here he revisits Titanic the movie he famously panned as "dead in the water" on its rerelease in 3D Titanic, TIME and Me, There were two great loves of Richard's life the movies and Mary Corliss. Here he pays tribute to both in one go The Case of the Still Missing Film Stills, Richard also loved TIME. On its 90th birthday, he reviewed the first issue The First TIME, He loved Roger Ebert, whom he knew for 40 years Farewell to a Film Legend and Friend, He loved baseball These Are the Good Old Days, He loved the Beatles, so much so that he let himself be persuaded to impersonate one of them, in this video where we test-drive Beatles Rock Band The New Fab Four, He loved Bollywood, and especially A.R. Rahman The Mozart of Madras, He loved theme parks. Here he visits the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter Inside the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, He had a way with spoilers. In this review of The Crying Game, he reveals the movie's big secret through an acrostic at which he hints in the opening paragraph Queuing for The Crying Game, To keep his Sex and the City review spoiler-free, he resorted to hilarious anagrams Kinda Into You, And he loved tradition. For more than a decade, he and Mary were part of the "Times Square confetti dispersal battalion," which is to say they spent their New Year's Eves throwing bits of paper onto revelers below. We will miss you next New Year's Eve, Richardand every day in between.