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Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber: A Library of America Special Publication
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When this movie’s going right, it makes the spectator aware not only of repetitiousness but of the actual duration of a commonplace act.
Robert Polito • Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber: A Library of America Special Publication
The Man Who Cheated Himself.
Robert Polito • Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber: A Library of America Special Publication
The conditions of a minimal underground classic—that the shape of a film be discernible in any single frame; that a single-camera strategy be the basis for the movie’s metaphysic and any situation within the film; that the repetitions of the camera, which is always obviously present, creates a spirituality; and that the field of examination be more
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The movie is thoroughly a product of Seventies sensibility: the integrity of things as they already stand, the presentation of a text as a concrete object, and out-front admission of the means of production.
Robert Polito • Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber: A Library of America Special Publication
Why is all the attention going toward the De Niro charm as a displaced country boy who is out of his depth, unless the authors are obsessed by Industry staples?