Manny Farber Quotes

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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 daughter…
• I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke. I can’t imagine a more…
• I have a great love of the actual.
• 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,…
• 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 in its path…
• Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. From Here to Eternity must…
• Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad,…
• The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
• Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
• Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who win the World…
• 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 the…
• Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly…
• From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs…
• 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. 'The…
• 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…
• 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…
• The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence…
• 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,…

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