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Emanuel Farber (February 20, 1917 – August 18, 2008) was an American painter, film critic and writer. Often described as "iconoclastic", [1] [2] [3] Farber developed a distinctive prose style [1] and set of theoretical stances which have had a large influence on later generations of film critics and influence on underground culture. [1]
In a 1969 review of the film published in Artforum, Manny Farber describes Wavelength as "a singularly unpadded, uncomplicated, deadly realistic way to film three walls, a ceiling and a floor... it is probably the most rigorously composed movie in existence." [6]
Manny Farber: film critic: February 20, 1917: August 18, 2008: Nina Foch: actress: April 20, 1924: December 5, 2008: 1954 Best Supporting Actress nomination for Executive Suite [14] Isaac Hayes: musician/actor: August 20, 1942: August 10, 2008: 1971 Best Original Score nomination for Shaft 1971 Best Original Song win for Shaft [14] John Michael ...
Farber notes Siegel’s “sad reliance on edgy Broadway acting” in particular “Eli Wallach overworking his nervous leering eyes.” [7] Biographer Judith M. Kass observes that The Line-up “embodies all the characteristics” informing Siegel’s assessment of the “normal” world. [8]
Literary critic Manny Farber writing in The New Leader offers this assessment: The Horse Soldiers is the disaster of the month, an eventful canter in which director Ford, without any plot to speak of, falls back on boyish Irish playfulness (played by a rigor-mortified John Wayne, an almost non-existent Bill Holden, and a new gnashing beauty ...
Flood, Richard. "Reel crank – critic Manny Farber." Artforum, Volume 37, Issue 1, September 1998. ISSN 0004-3532. Hardwick, Jack and Ed Schnepf. "A Viewer's Guide to Aviation Movies", in The Making of the Great Aviation Films. General Aviation Series, Volume 2, 1989. Kinn, Gail and Jim Piazza. The Academy Awards: The Complete Unofficial ...
Film critic Manny Farber wrote in February 14, 1944's The New Republic: "Lifeboat is eminently theatrical, but not because it is dialogue-heavy and confined to a single set. Its theatricality lies in the fact that it is entirely an arrangement in which the audience does not, as it should, seem outside of the event, but is the main person in the ...
Since You Went Away is a 1944 American epic drama film directed by John Cromwell for Selznick International Pictures and distributed by United Artists.It is an epic about the US home front during World War II that was adapted and produced by David O. Selznick from the 1943 novel Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife by Margaret Buell Wilder. [3]