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?

Corliss covers movies for the magazine and for time. Corliss also appeared on A&E Biography to talk about the life and work of Jackie Chan. Richard Nelson Corliss (born March 6 1944) is a writer for Time magazine who focuses on movies with the occasional article on music or sports.

Talking Pictures one of his three books as well as his writing for Time and other publications were some of the first writings to help draw attention to the role of the screenwriter as opposed to the director in the creation of movies. Richard Nelson Corliss (born March 6 1944) is a writer for Time magazine who focuses on movies with the occasional article on music or sports. Corliss is the former editor-in-chief of Film Comment.