The Killing

 The Killing
Stanley Kubrick
1956

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Focus Can hurt You

      I like to be alone so i can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to become some stress casualty in early middle age.

James Ellroy

Lone Noir

Pale Flower
Masahiro Shinoda
1964

Trying to Catch Up

            Death. I had followed him through all the years of my life. As he dropped bodies in my path as little reminders to me and others that the end of the road was no bed of roses, no kingdom come. It felt as if my whole life was an obstacle course, a slogging journey trying to catch up with Death, trying to get a good look at his face .............

Walter Mosley
Little Green
2013

Darkness Shall Be the Light

       But the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought ; So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

T.S Eliot
East Coker

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Blast of Silence
1961

Femmes of the Night

Memento

The Killing

Point Blank

When Strangers Marry

La Femme Infidele

Night and the City

Let Him See

            He felt like someone had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.

Dashiell Hammett

Build My Gallows High

Out of the Past
(AKA Build my Gallows High)
Jacques Tourneur
1947

Someone Marches Brave

                                 Always through the darkest phase

                                 Be it thick or thin      

                                 Always someone marches brave     

                                 Here beneath my skin

Constant Craving

(Lang/ Mink)

K.D Lang

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You Get a Refund ........

Blood Simple
Coen Brothers
1984

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Mosaic Noir #33

Nightmare Alley

The Killers (1964)

Ashes and Diamonds

Taxi Driver

Rope

The Crystal Reading

Nightmare Alley
Edmund Goulding
1947

Before He Died .........

                                 '' But before he died he talked ............''

The Jugger
(Parker #6)
Richard Stark
1965

Hit-Man Noir #2

Pale Flower

The Killers (1964)

Ashes and Diamonds

Get Carter

The Killers (1946)

The Conformist

Last Fair Deal Gone Down

                                 ............. don't cry this time
                                 If you cry 'bout a nickel, you'll die 'bout a dime
                                 She wouldn't cry, but the money weren't mine  

Last Fair Deal Gone Down
(Johnson)
Robert Johnson

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Ava Gardner
Killers 1946

God's Pocket

God's Pocket

John Slattery

2014

F.X Toole

         Ring magic is different from the magic of the theatre, because the curtain never comes down - because the blood in the ring is real blood, and the broken noses and the broken hearts are real, and sometimes they are broken forever.

F.X Toole
Rope Burns - Stories from the Corner
2000

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The Killers
1946

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Klute
Alan J Pakula
1971