I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke. I can’t… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke. I can’t imagine a… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. From Here to Eternity… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who win the… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
There are several types of movie space, the three most important being: (1) the field of the screen, (2) the psychological space of the… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
Orson Welles's second 'I-did-it' should show once and for all that film making, radio and the stage are three different guys better kept separated.… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant. — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen. — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women… — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
