According to my MOVIES UNLIMITED catalog a set of Russell's works is to be released next month. Included is the controversial DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS. I...
... My understanding is that this box set will be released by the BBC's American branch. The rights to Strauss' music have now expired in the US, but not in...
... That's exactly my understanding of the situation. Strauss died in 1949, so under EU copyright law his estate still maintains control over his work until...
Wow, Manny Farber died? I only just saw the obit in yesterday's NY Times. Quoth William Grimes: ''In a famous essay for Film Culture magazine in 1962, "White...
... Grimes might be taking some poetic license there. But if literally true, then Farber was right. THE CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE cuts KANE in my book (though ...
... '73.'' ... true, then ... The verdict that stuck in my mind from his description of Kane was "exciting but hammy". I just Googled that phrase and turned...
I did a little googling too and will add the following. According to Grimes' obituary: Farber ''despised what he called the "art-infected" films of cinematic ...
Brad, you can't just resist kicking Manny Farber, even fresh in his grave !!?? I too abhor this nonsense about Farber being ant-Welles and Hitchcock. He put...
... his grave !!?? ... Hitchcock. It isn't a question of attacking Farber - more about attacking the claims that are made in his defence. Here's what Jonathan...
Farber's White Elephant and Termite Art categories do seem to be some of the most mis-quoted in film history. Farber's examples of White Elephant included...
... Farber's writing about "Touch of Evil" in his Introduction to "Negative Space" is far more appreciative than pejorative. (Anecdotal aside: he panned "The...
... Jonathan. Perhaps you thought that my comment was intended sarcastically...which I guess it was! But, in absolute seriousness, I simply don't understand...
Brad asked: "How is my desire to "improve" Farber different from your [Jonathan's] desire to "improve" the work of The Times' obituarist?" Because the prrof of...
... The difference is quite simple. Farber was a great critic and a great prose writer. The "obituarist," as you call him, isn't even a good obituarist, much...
... "...Farber was a great critic and a great prose writer..." I agree. Because Farber's prose style is exciting and his insights are expansive his occasional...
It makes a more memorable sentence when corrected. The original makes me stumble when I read the last three words because I'm left wanting to apply the idea of...
... Although this item may more appropriately belong to the film and politics group, I'd like to raise it here. According to an obituary on PBS Radio's Fresh...
... on ... For those who may not have seen F&P or jonathanrosenbaum.com, this turns out to have been a canard, according to a letter Patricia Patterson wrote...
At first glance, Stagecoach is completely different from the earlier Ford-Nichols collaboration Born Reckless, being a Western. But Stagecoach is also a crime...
Farber, as a critic or more imortantly FILM WRITER, spoke TO you not AT you. And he could find the deep poetry in B or pulp cinema, unlike today´s semitexted...
That adds up to basic competence and basic sensitivity. I would hope that all critics aspire to these standards and a lot more. Peter Henne ... not AT ... ...
Blake, Fred has lost his yahoo account as well as the rest of his net data. He has your discs ready for you but he lost your address as well. He asked that you...
