Manny Farber
Manny Farber
Emanuel "Manny" Farberwas an American painter, film critic and writer. Often described as "iconoclastic", Farber developed a distinctive prose style and set of theoretical stances which have had a large influence on later generations of film critics; Susan Sontag considered him to be "the liveliest, smartest, most original film critic this country has ever produced."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth20 February 1917
CountryUnited States of America
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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There are several types of movie space, the three most important being: (1) the field of the screen, (2) the psychological space of the actor, and (3) the area of experience and geography that the film covers.
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I have a great love of the actual.