Film Quotes by Manny Farber

8 Film quotes by Manny Farber

Manny Farber’s thoughts on film come through in these eight succinct statements. Though the list is short, it captures his sharp, often contrarian eye on movies, offering a useful snapshot for readers who want a quick pulse on his critical voice.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at…

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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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Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence…

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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American…

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From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in…

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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…

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The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy…

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