Images of the Day

Carpenter/teacher/critic/painter Manny Farber died this week at the age of 91. Here are five stills from movies he admired and one of his paintings. From the top:
Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep (1946)
Werner Herzog's Fata Morgana (1971)
Samuel Fuller's Pickup on South Street (1953)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Farber's My Budd (1978)