"The Big Sleep' would have been a more……" — Manny Farber
"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."
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18 Quotes by Manny Farber
Manny Farber has 18 quotes on this site.
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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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