Manny Farber
Manny Farber, Film Critic and Painter, Dead at 91
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Manny Farber
Manny Farber, the idiosyncratic painter and film critic for The New Republic, The Nation, ArtForum and other publications, has died. He was 91.
According to The Times' William Grimes, Mr. Farber was "a quirky prose stylist with a barbed lance, responded to film viscerally. He despised what he called the 'art-infected' films of cinematic greats like Welles and Alfred Hitchcock — 'the water-buffaloes of film art,' he once called them — preferring the work of genre directors like Anthony Mann, Raoul Walsh and William A. Wellman, who transformed pulp material and genre conventions into 'private runways to the truth.'"
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