Monday, 30 November 2015

Full of Strangers


   By it's nature the Metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by travelling ; namely the strange.
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  [Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are by definition, full of strangers.


Jane Jacobs
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
1961

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William Klein
1958

Just One Punch


'' Don't you see Bill, you'll always be just one punch away '' 


The Set Up
Robert Wise
1949

Sunday, 29 November 2015

Not Dark Yet


Shadows are falling and i've been here all day
It's too hot to sleep, time is running away
Feel like my soul has turned into steel
I've still got the scars that the sun didn't heal

Not Dark Yet
(Dylan)
Bob Dylan

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Leo Rubinfen

Where Darkness Hides ....... 6

Asphalt Jungle

Rififi

Le Trou

Thet Made Me a Fugitive

Kiss Me Deadly

Phantom Lady

Sunset Boulevard

Street with No Name

Lady from Shanghai

Nightmare Alley

Saturday, 28 November 2015

Seen Such Smiles


         The smile that folded the puffed eyelids and creased the sagging cheeks was fixed and forced.  I'd seen such smiles in mortuaries on the false face of death. It reminded me that i was going to grow old and die.

Ross MacDonald
Moving Target
1949

Give my love to the Sunrise

                                       '' Give my love to the sunrise''.
Lady from Shanghai
Orson Welles
1947

Friday, 27 November 2015

Nothing Could Be


          All things had opposites close by, every decision a reason against it, every animal an animal that destroys it, the male the female, the positive the negative ...... Nothing could be without it's opposite bound up with it ...........

Patricia Highsmith

Thursday, 26 November 2015

Assault on Precinct 13










 Assault on Precinct 13
John Carpenter
1976

Win a Fight


                               Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.

Billie Holiday

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Herman Leonard
Billie Holiday

Wednesday, 25 November 2015

Cry of Noir ...... 10

The Killers

Armee Des Ombres

Gun Crazy

Act of Violence

Millers Crossing

Strangers on a Train

Touch of Evil

Vertigo

Othello

Laura