Not Too Smart

Body Heat

Lawrence Kasdan

1981

Not For Me

                                    Never tell me dreams come true
                                    Just try it and i'll start a riot

But Not For Me
(Gershwin/ Gershwin)
Chet Baker

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Brassai

The Only Things

                                Obsessions are the only things that matter.

Patricia Highsmith

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Lacopo Bruno

Mosaic Noir #42

Phantom Lady

Se7en

Vertigo

Strangers on a Train

No Country for Old Men

Third Man

Shutter Island

Ox Bow Incident

Rear Window

Paul Almasy

You Didn't .....

                                     'You didn't get me down Ray'
Raging Bull

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Raging Bull
1980

Moments of Noir ....... part 7

Criss Cross

Double Indemnity

Detour

Out of the Past

Sunset Boulevard

Almost Alone .......

Poetry of Shadows

Odd Man Out

The Set Up

Murder My Sweet

Touch of Evil

Double Indemnity

                                                                  Killers Kiss

Mildred Pierce

Strangers on a Train

Narrow Margin

Odds Against Tomorrow

Saved You From

                   You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

No Country for Old Men
Coen Brothers
2007

At a Tomb

           It is one thing to look at a mistreated boat and another at a tomb. The silence of the bay seemed more intense and i could see the the glint of the carrion flies.

John D. MacDonald
The Lonely Silver Rain
1985

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John L Sanchez
Oakland Bay 1937

By Implication

        No pedestrians or bystanders - innocent or even neutral. Not a single uncomplicitous, untainted character except the mute cabbie who briefly shuttles our hero between several points along his dizzying path. The absence of a general population is, by implication, a statement of contempt.

Nicholas Christopher

Somewhere in the Night -

Film Noir and the American City

1997

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Out of the Past

1947

I Was You

               Last night i dreamed about you. What happened in detail i can hardly remember ; all i know is we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

Franz Kafka

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France2008
reblogged from dideriviera

Noir of the Loner #3

Croupier

Cape Fear

                                                       

Chinatown

Rififi

 Rear Window

Blast of Silence

Point Blank

Phantom Lady

Strangers on a Train

Best of Nothing

            California, the department store state. The most of everything and the best of nothing. Here we go again. You're not human tonight, Marlowe.

The Little Sister
Raymond Chandler
1949

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reblogged from madamebeudet