Aug 21, 2008 13:48
Manny Farber, an influential film critic whose essays and reviews punctured the self-serious veil of art-house favorites -- Orson Welles, Francois Truffaut and Michelangelo Antonioni -- while celebrating the less-studied, but more-entertaining work of Laurel and Hardy, Howard Hawks and John Wayne...<p><a href="http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~a/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xmla=u9EsNa"><img src="http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~a/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xmli=u9EsNa" border="0"><img src="http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/metro/obituaries/index_xml/~4/369759005" height="1" />