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Hopperesque

Tuesday 23 June 2015

Priceless Time


                We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion and put to death by reality.

Judy Garland

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Judy Garland

Signs of Wear


                  Her face was the face of a girl of twenty-five already showing signs of wear. Little lines cossed the corners of her big ripe mouth. Fainter lines were beginning to make nets around her thick-lashed eyes. They were large eyes, blue and a bit blood-shot.

Dashiell Hammett
Red Harvest
1929

Mosaic Noir #65

Friends of Eddie Coyle


Le Deuxieme Souffle

Drive

Touch of Evil

Vertigo

Une Si Jolie Petit Plage

Monday 22 June 2015

Trouble With People


The trouble with people is they don't understand people.
David Goodis

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Brassai
Rue De Rivoli, Paris
1937

More Vertigo















Vertigo
Alfred Hitchcock
1958

Sunday 21 June 2015

Fast One


The young man in the raincoat leaned forward and slapped Kells across the mouth. Kells looked up at him and his face was very sad, his eyes were sleepy. He said ''that's too bad''.

Fast One
Paul Cain
1933

Plain, Honey


Something that this life will mind is plain, honey
That's funny
When you're miles away from home
It's not so sunny

Then You've Never Been Blue
(Rito/Lewis/Langford/Young)
Ella Fitzgerald

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Amy Touchette

Two Kinds


       There are two kinds of people. The givers and the takers. The takers eat well, the givers sleep well.

Unknown

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Ernst Haas
Third Ave NYC

Saturday 20 June 2015

Cry of Noir

Chinatown

Le Deuxieme Souffle

Memento

Shock Corridor

Pulp Fiction

Lady from Shanghai

House of Bamboo

A Man Escaped

Vertigo

Nothing Goes Right


There is no success where there is no possibility of failure, no art without the resistance of the medium. Is it blasphemy to suggest that God has his bad days when nothing goes right, and that God's days are very, very long ?

Raymond Chandler
Playback
1958