Richard Corliss Quotes

• It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.

  Richard Corliss

  Stars, Artist, Makeup

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• Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?

  Richard Corliss

  Beauty, Artist, Essence

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• Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday's vision of the future.

  Richard Corliss

  Future, Yesterday, Vision

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• It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally, it is his job to let the world observe him.

  Richard Corliss

  Art, Jobs, Passion

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• John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land in the Western [United States]; the perfidy of banks in foreclosing on poor people's homes; and the insurgent urge of the book's protagonist, Tom Joad, to speak truth to police power. 'Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy,' Tom promises, 'I'll be there.' In Salinas, Calif., Ferguson, Mo., or Staten Island, N.Y., Tom's truth goes marching on.

  Richard Corliss

  Dream, Book, Home

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• Years from now, when cinephiles are asked to name the movies' golden age, they'll say it was when Cate Blanchett was in them.

  Richard Corliss

  Years, Names, Age

  "The 2007 TIME 100: Cate Blanchett" by Richard Corliss, content.time.com. May 3, 2007.

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• [Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.

  Richard Corliss

  Expectations, Ashes, Taste

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• Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.

  Richard Corliss

  Vcr, Magic, Promise

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• Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.

  Richard Corliss

  Art, Years, Mind

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

  Richard Corliss

  Air, White, Space

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• It rekindles the great Hollywood romances.

  Richard Corliss

  Romance, Hollywood

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• The visual palette suggests the creepy pastel paintings of Guy Peellaert (Rock Dreams); the fantasy battles with monsters and samurais echo the muscular landscapes of Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo. The movie is like an arrested adolescent's Google search run amok.

  Richard Corliss

  Running, Dream, Echoes

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