Manny Farber
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Sep 23, 2026
Lucy SanteGUEST
There were the movies and then there were what the critics were saying about the movies.
Lucy SanteGUEST
And I forgot, of course, my most, for me, most important critic of the period, who was Manny Farber, who by that point, by the time Pauline comes in, I think he's writing for like Art Forum or something like that.
Lucy SanteGUEST
So he's not exactly part of the conversation because he is writing for a much smaller sliver than these other critics.
Lucy SanteGUEST
But I think he's got the best eye, the best sense of history, all that stuff.
Elizabeth NelsonHOST
Yeah.
Jonathan LethemGUEST
And that's, That is like a beautiful thing to me, and I feel it in Andrew Sarris, who was the film critic I first loved, and Manny Farber, who I came to a little later.
Jonathan LethemGUEST
And obviously Paul Williams was doing this.
Jonathan LethemGUEST
He was defiantly saying, you know, let's write about rock and roll.
Jason BaileyHOST
But while it isn't the best picture to come out of Hollywood this year, nor is it Capra's masterpiece, it tells a good story, and its conclusion has a heartwarming effect on the audience."[lips smack] End quote.
Jason BaileyHOST
But, uh, if you want a full-on pan, you gotta go to good old Manny Farber in The New Republic who sneered, quote, "Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger-
Emily St. JamesGUEST
[laughs]
Jason BaileyHOST
... lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the Saturday Evening Post covers of Norman Rockwell.
MichaelHOST
Very interesting.
MichaelHOST
I think it was just kind of done as a favor to Manny Farber, Faber, Farber.
MichaelHOST
But yeah, very, very fascinating.
MichaelHOST
Let me see.