Screen-L may not be the best home for news items but I think Farber was important enough for many of us to deserve the recognition. Negative Space was a revelation when I first read it (in a copy that was a gift from Screen-L's founder over two decades ago) and that's hardly an uncommon reaction. http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-08-19/film/manny-farber-1917-2008/ http://nymag.com/daily/movies/2008/08/reflections_on_manny_farber_a_1.html http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2008/08/death-of-a-grea.html http://weblogs.variety.com/thompsononhollywood/2008/08/obit-critic-man.html http://www.jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=14534 http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/flickgrrl/Manny_Farber_1917-2008.html ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org