Hopperesque

Hopperesque

Wednesday 30 November 2016

People in Trouble

 
      Film Noir has a mood that everybody can feel. It's people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind, and the right kind of music. It's a beautiful thing.
 
 David Lynch
 
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Anthony Barboza

Monday 28 November 2016

Cry of Noir ............... 17

Blast of Silence
 
Blood Simple

Leaving Las Vegas
 
Detour

The Missing Person

Requiem for a Heavyweight
 
Wild at Heart
 
The Man Who Wasn't There
 
some images reblogged
via Noirsville.com


Sunday 27 November 2016

Thy Gold


                                      There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls
                                      Doing more murder in this loathsome world

Romeo & Juliet
William Shakespeare
1597

Friday 25 November 2016

Wednesday 23 November 2016

The Other Side


Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean Paul Sartre

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unknown
Bakersfield city limits 1940

Monday 21 November 2016

Friday 18 November 2016

They Got Tight ......


             ........While the drummer and the bass fiddler made shock waves on the roof Bolling raised his voice and began to belt it out. About how he followed her up and down and around, and underground, up Russian Hill and Nob Hill and Telegraph Hill and across the Bay Bridge and back by way of the Oakland ferry. So he found the Sphinx on Market Street cadging drinks and they got tight and they danced on the golden asphalt of delight.

Ross MacDonald
The Galton Case
1959

Saturday 12 November 2016

Everyday Life


                                     Music washes away the dust of everyday life.
Art Blakey

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Francis Wolff
Art Blakey

Friday 11 November 2016

Street 8


He was ahead of his time. People had no idea what he was talking about, they still don't.

Les Standiford
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Street 8
Douglas Fairbairn
1977

Wednesday 9 November 2016

What Can Matter



Then the rain begins to fall, pitter-patter, pitter-patter
Love is gone, So what can matter
No sweet lover man comes to call
When Sunny Gets Blue
(Fisher/Segal)
Carmen MacRae