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 go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart). — Manny Farber Copy Share Image
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. — 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
