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Two Critics with Nothing in Common

August 25, 2008 by Marion Maneker

Except that they both died recently.

Two very different, which is not to say inimical, critics died in the last two weeks. Each was extraordinarily talented but I doubt either had interest in the other. Manny Farber was an oddball artist with a quirky interest in genre film and a talent for phrase making; John Russell was a fluid and erudite enthusiast with a broad and seemingly endless range.

John Russell (New York Times)

Manny Farber (New York Times)

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