Quotes by Manny Farber - Page 1

I have a great love of the actual.
Manny Farber / Painter
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Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
Manny Farber / Painter
Armor
Hell
Henry V
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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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Great Deal
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The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
Manny Farber / Painter
Cartoon
Firsts
Interesting
Bambi
Disney
Entirely
First One
Unpleasant
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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 bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
Manny Farber / Painter
Blink
Bogart
Crosses
Bookstore
Sign
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I think it's sinful to give the audience material it knows already, whether the material is about race relations or the car culture or the depiction and placement of a candy bar.
Manny Farber / Painter
Giving
Race
Thinking
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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 (Ann Blythe).
Manny Farber / Painter
Daughter
Brother
Enormous
Greedy
Mother
Pierce
Spoiled
Warner Brothers
Brothers
Joan
Sacrifices
Warner
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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 / Painter
Curiosity
Detectives
Sleep
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'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 / Painter
Crime
Curiosity
Existence
Relation
Sweetheart
Detective
Effective
Shown
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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 have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.
Manny Farber / Painter
Beach
Directors
Eternity
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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 have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.
Manny Farber / Painter
Beach
Eternity
Lancaster
Chore
Fred
Seemed
Shown
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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 Series each year. After seeing it you will find that the reference is indirect.
Manny Farber / Painter
Indirect
Pride
Winning
World Series
Yankees
Each Year
World Win Will
Reference
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The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence of art in the Hollywood of super-craftsmen with insuperable taste.
Manny Farber / Painter
Art
Beautiful
Boulevard
Cold
Proof
Resurgence
Sunset
Taste
Further
Suspect
Title
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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 of the actor, and (3) the area of experience and geography that the film covers.
Manny Farber / Painter
Space
Important
Three
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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 go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).
Manny Farber / Painter
Men
Hollywood
Sleep
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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 go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).
Manny Farber / Painter
Bogart
Excitement
Hollywood
Honest
Surrealist
Underworld
Unwilling
Private
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Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.
Manny Farber / Painter
Depressing
Sex
Sunset
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'Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.
Manny Farber / Painter
Affair
Boulevard
Decadence
Depressing
Hollywood Movies
Methodical
Sunset
Twenties
Uncompromising
Worn
Displaying
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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, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.
Manny Farber / Painter
Art
Activity
Boundaries
Industrious
Moss
Peculiar
Eager
Leaves
Likely
Signs
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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 home with the medium than any other Hollywood director. But all of his details give the impression of contrived effect.
Manny Farber / Painter
Home
Craftsman
Giving
Impression
Old Time
Way
Bag
Contrived
Effect
Master
Trick
Medium
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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 perfect art form, a moreperfect career than criticism. I can’t imagine anything more valuableto do.
Manny Farber / Painter
Art
Careers
Perfect
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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 kept separated. 'The Magnificent Ambersons' is one of those versions of the richest family in town during the good old days.
Manny Farber / Painter
Different
Film
Good Old Days
Guy
Magnificent
Old Days
Radio
Stage
Three
Towns
Versions
Show
Days
Family Good Better
Old
Guys
Making
Richest
Second
Separated
Welles
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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 which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
Manny Farber / Painter
Men
Golf
Sweet
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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 which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
Manny Farber / Painter
Beaten
Entertaining
Eternity
Golf
Golf Course
Mistaken
Principles
Love Death Man
Affairs
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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 life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.
Manny Farber / Painter
Art
American Life
Cinematic
Convince
Evening
Frank
Hysterical
Light
Saturday
Wonderful Life
Zeal
Audiences
Covers
Latest
Lights
Norman
Post
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