There Were No Faces

          There was no feeling of being in any special place, and he might have been kneeling in an unlit cave, or seated in a smoky room where there were no faces, just a lot of eyes that looked at him. Or merely drifting on a slab of ice in a quiet region of white emptiness.

David Goodis
Of Tender Sin
1952
 
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Elliott Erwitt
New York 1954

Where Did Everyone go ?

                           I gave the party. I was the host.

                           Everyone loved me

                           I was the most

Where Did Everyone Go ?

(Van Heusen/ David)

Nat King Cole 

Sol Libhson

Desert Noir

Blood Simple

Detour

 Delusion

Bad Day at Black Rock

Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Salton Sea

Desert Fury

More Noir by Night

images reblogged

from NoirbyNight

De Niro

Taxi Driver

Raging Bull

Heat

Mean Streets

Casino

Bloody Mary Morning

                             All the night life and parties

                             Temptation and deceit

                             the order of the day  

                             Well it's a bloody mary morning

                             Cause i'm leavin' baby

                             Somewhere in L.A

Bloody Mary Morning

(Nelson)

Willie Nelson

  

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Dave Jordano

reblogged from NoirbyNight

Mosaic Noir #24

After Dark My Sweet

Mean Streets

Postman Always Rings Twice

Physical Dreamscape

          The physical dreamscape was dark toned and 60s/70s vintage. The thematic dreamscape was all fear. I was walkin' the streets. I was homeless in the city i had rendered with great success as a writer. I was bewildered, disconsolate, completely lost.

The Great Right Place -
James Ellroy Comes Home
L.A Times
July 2006

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Come Out Winning

       Hate him till you see red, and you'll come out winning the big money, and the girls will come tumblin' after.

The Big Combo
1955

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Big Combo

City of Shadows - Peter Doyle

Never Stand the Strain

I know i need a small vacation
But it don't look like rain
And if it snows that stretch down south
Will never stand the strain


Wichita Lineman
Glen Campbell
(Jimmy Webb)
1968

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jean loup sieff

Easier to See

      Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth.

Albert Camus

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24
via Netflix

After Dark My Sweet

After Dark My Sweet

James Foley

1990
                        http://thepinksmoke.com/movieshelfafterdarkmysweet.html

Tell the Man

                 Joe, tell the man i'm gonna break him so fast he won't have time to change his pants. Tell him, the next time i see him, he'll be in the lobby of the hotel crying like a baby and asking for a ten dollar loan.

The Big Combo
1955

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Big Combo
cinematography - John Alton

Owen Freeman