Manny Farber was a friend of mine before we ever met. I recall exactly how I was introduced. I had read Pauline Kael's jeremiad on Andrew Sarris and the auteur theory, "Circles and Squares," in her first (and at the time, only) collection of film criticism, I Lost It at the Movies...
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Topic - Duncan Shepherd on "the water buffaloes of film art," an homage to Manny Farber - clarkjohnsen 10:07:10 05/26/06 (0)