Hopperesque

Hopperesque

Friday, 7 February 2025

Truth in the Shadows

Rillington Place (2016)

In Cold Blood

Dance with a Stranger

Call Northside 777

Fatal Vision

Pembrokeshire Murders

Fourteen Hours

Des

Summer of Sam

I Want to Live !

Zodiac

Waco : The Aftermath

Thursday, 6 February 2025

Only Aimed to Be


Almost blue
Flirting with this disaster became me
It named me as the fool who only aimed to be
Almost blue

Almost Blue
(Costello)
Chet Baker

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Lee Friedlander
(Annie Ross, Chet Baker,
Gerry Mulligan)

               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBY6Ckk0CNA&ab_channel=raffaeleguerrieri

Wednesday, 5 February 2025

More Jennifer Connelly

Dark City (1998)

The Hot Spot

House of Sand and Fog

Requiem for a Dream

Mullholland Drive

Tuesday, 4 February 2025

Risks He Took



           The risks he took were not underwritten. His skill on the arena of green cloth - cloth that itself was the color of money - could never be only pretense.

Walter Tevis

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Folio illustration agency

Sunday, 2 February 2025

Billie Holiday



     She Knew her place. And sometimes she didn't want to stay in her place. That's why she's Billie Holiday.

James Erskine

from The Troubled Brilliance of Billie Holiday
Alex Godfrey
The Guardian 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/06/billie-holiday-documentary-lost-tapes-racism-in-united-states

Saturday, 1 February 2025

Mosaic Noir #217

Plein Soleil

Hidden Room

Hot Spot

Mr Arkadin

Friends of Eddie Coyle

Pale Flower

Shutter Island

Les Maudits

Ruby

Secret Beyond the Door

Angel Heart

Wages of Fear

No Country for Old Men

Friday, 31 January 2025