Currently On Sale On Sale: 2010 Archive On Sale: 2009 Archive On Sale: 2008 Archive Classic Scorsese MET Live: Thaïs Roosevelt SE: Revolutionary Road SE: The Sky Crawlers SE: Making The Wrestler CO: The Magic Flute Spanish Cinema Now Cámara Spanish Experimental YFF: Short Cuts SE: Joseph Stiglitz SE: Secret...Grain Problem Child FCS: Les idoles MET Live: La Damnation GS: Docks of NY SE: Sinatra... SE: Puccini.... Manny Farber Program Overview Christmas in July His Girl Friday I Walked... Zombie Children of Tokyo The Lineup Me and My Gal Mean Streets Mouchette Muriel Negative Space Not Reconciled On Dangerous Ground The Roaring Twenties Scarface Two or Three... Voyage to Italy Walkabout Wavelength IN: Be Like Others YFF: Slumdog... MET Live: Dr Atomic Gr. Scr.: Panel Gr. Scr.: Farming... NYC Opera: Ivan... FCS: Changeling YFF: The man who... FCS: Che! Jon Jost Andrzej Wajda IN: Ice People MET Live: Salome Avant-Garde Oshima YFF: Sonetaula MET Live: Gala FCS: The Other Gr. Scr.: Scarred Lands Latinbeat 08 Charlton Heston FCS: Captain Ahab Robert Gavaldón Never Apologize Revolutionary Romantic YFF: L.I.E. IN: Judge & General FCS: The Deal Kawakita Gr. Scr.: Fields of Fuel Dominique Delouche SE: Four Hands GS: The Cat and... YFF: American Teen Slovenian Cinema SE: Magic Lantern William Holden SE: Jazz on a... Satoshi Kon IN: Critical Condition HRW Collection Human Rights Watch Gr. Scr.: Biùtiful... New Italian Cinema YFF: Judy Berlin Israel @ 60 Charles Boyer Gr. Scr.: Nausicaä Jennifer Jones SE: Robert Frank SE: Jerry Schatzberg SE: Joachim Trier 1968: Intl. Perspective Romanian Cinema Met: La Fille du Régiment SE: Ned Rorem GS: The Kid Brother YFF: Le Boucher Gr. Scr.: Mountaintop... IN: Phyllis and Harold NYAFF 2008 SE: Dreams... SE: On the Street Met: La Bohème ND/NF Classics 2008 Gr. Scr.: Garbage... Met: Tristan und Isolde Thorold Dickinson Met: Peter Grimes Infernal Machines Rendez-Vous 2008 Green Screens: Flow:... Met: Manon Lescaut YFF: Harold and Maude Film Comment Selects IN: From the Ground Up SE: Two Laws GS: Chang: A Story... Envisioning Russia YFF: The Ice Storm NYJFF 2008 Celebrate Alex Corti NYJFF JM Screens Met: Macbeth SE: City of Men DOC 2008 Met: Hänsel and Gretel On Sale: 2007 Archive On Sale: 2006 Archive On Sale: 2005 Archive Archive 2005 - To April Archive 2004 - WRT Archive 2003 - WRT Archive 2002 - WRT Archive 2001 - WRT Archive 2000 - WRT Archive 1999 - WRT Archive 1998 - WRT Archive 1997 - WRT Archive 1996 - WRT

Manny Farber, 1917-2008 by Kent Jones Born in Arizona on the Mexican border into a “fiercely competitive” trio of brothers. Saxophone player, fifth-string quarterback, carpenter. And pursuer of perceptions to filigreed end points in painting and criticism and teaching. “The brutal fact is that they’re exactly the same thing,” he once told an interviewer. Manny Farber’s career is an adventure story, set in motion by the quest to get it right: to convey in words the precise nature of Preston Sturges’s all-American cacophony or the peculiar landscape around Del Mar, Calif., to convey in painting the exact sense of a cherry pit or a length of rebar, and on a different level the frustratingly yet thrillingly inconclusive nature of living perception itself. “I try to get myself out of it as much as possible,” he once said to me, “so that the object takes on a kind of religious awe.” In this case, the word “religious” is strictly evocative, coming as it does from a man who titled one of his paintings, “Thank God I’m Still an Atheist.” Those of us who were lucky enough to know and love him are now broken-hearted, because it seemed like he would go on forever. There was always more to see and hear, to think through and puzzle out. He thought a lot about Nick Ray in the last few months, about the beauty of his early films; about the men he used to work with on construction sites around New York; and about Barack Obama, who excited him to no end. The last time I saw him, a couple weeks before he died, he was sitting before the TV with his beloved wife and essential collaborator Patricia, completely absorbed by Obama. When the subject of conversation shifted to J.M.W. Turner, he thought about him for a while and said, “He had about eight arms.” Take a fresh look at “The Battle of Trafalgar” and you’ll know exactly what he meant. Fresh looks will always yield more and more, take you down different pathways and reveal new openings. Contrary to the insistence of popular culture and its never–ending hailstorm of clichés and final judgments – the “culture of winners,” as he once called it – there is no such thing as a last word. That’s what we learned from Manny Farber. Click here for a listing of films in the series. Click here to view the daily schedule and purchase tickets online. Series Pass ($40 public/$30 Film Society member) admits one person to five titles in a series. Available only at the Walter Reade Theater box office (cash only transactions); may not be combined with any other ticket offer. Individual screening tickets subject to availability. For their help and suggestions with this show, I would like to thank several people: Patricia Patterson, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Robert Walsh, Robert Polito, Greg Ford and Jim Hoberman.

On Screen Nov 14 – 26 Read an interview with PAUL SCHRADER about Farber. Schrader will introduce the screening of his film Untitled: New Blue on Sun Nov 16 at 3:40pm ~ BUY TICKETS. Leonard Lopate talks to two of Farber’s friends and colleagues: Kent Jones of the Film Society of Lincoln Center; and writer and critic Phillip Lopate. Download the mp3. Read Farber Figure Walter Reade pays tribute to a termite critic by David Fear in Time Out. Listen to (Negative) Space is the Place an interview with Kent Jones by Nathan Lee, WNYC ART.CULT.