"The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement……" — Manny Farber
"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)."
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18 Quotes by Manny Farber
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The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes…
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I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke.…
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I have a great love of the actual.
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There are several types of movie space, the three most important being: (1) the field of the screen, (2) the…
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A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not,…
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Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach.…
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Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of…
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The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
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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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Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the…
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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…
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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…
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