Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies (Paperback)

by Manny Farber (Author), Robert Walsh (Preface) "The saddest thing in current films is watching the long-neglected action directors fade away as the less talented De Sicas and Zinnemanns continue to fascinate..." (more)

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Paperback: 424 pages
Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc; New edition edition (1 Mar 1998)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0306808293
ISBN-13: 978-0306808296
Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 12.7 x 3 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 937,532 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Manny Farber, one of the most important critics in movie history, championed the American action filmthe bravado of Howard Hawks, the art brut styling of Samuel Fuller, the crafty, sordid entertainments of Don Siegelat a time when other critics dismissed the genre. His witty, incisive criticism later worked exacting language into an exploration of the feelings and strategies that went into low-budget and radical films as diverse as Michael Snow's Wavelength, Werner Herzog's Fata Morgana , and Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman. Expanded with an in-depth interview and seven essays written with his wife, artist Patricia Patterson, Negative Space gathers Farber's most influential writings, making this an indispensable collection for all lovers of film.

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5.0 out of 5 stars extraordinary, 2 Jan 1999

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Farber found the best metaphor for his inclinations as well as his work: the termite, who burrows, chews, and undermines. Just as Thelonious Monk's solos softly undermine the themes on which they are constructed, so the bits of outrageous reality peeping into the Walsh films Farber so much admires undermine the fictional world Walsh has so carelessly constructed, and the critiques Farber savagely launches at film festivals and white elephant movies undermine their subjects by his relentless burrowing.

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Manny Farber has very litle praise for most of the films he reviews. He gives the impression, wrong I hope, of being tetchy and dyspeptic, hard to please. Some of his opinions are idiosyncratic, to put it mildly: Lawrence of Arabia is a film he can find nothing good to say about; Truffaut and Antonioni are second, if not third rate, directors; Orson Welles contributed little of lasting value. Amongst actors, Spencer Tracy is dismissed out of hand, as is Alec Guinness; Rita Tushingham, a second rate talent at best, is the subject of a diatribe lasting several boring pages; Montgomery Clift, it would seem, managed only one "non-mush" performance. Farber's prose is dense and it is easy to lose your way amongst his labyrinthine descriptions. It will be a joy to get back to the lucid prose of writers on film like C.A Lejeune, Dilys Powell and Graham Greene.

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