Thursday, 30 March 2017

Detour

Detour
Edgar Ulmer
1945
                                   https://theplaylist.net/detour-exclusive-trailer-20181101/


Wednesday, 29 March 2017

Michael Caine

Get Carter

Mona Lisa

Blood and Wine

The Fourth Protocol

Blue Ice

A Kind of Insanity


Innocence is a kind of insanity.
Graham Greene
The Quiet American
1955

Tuesday, 28 March 2017

Man is a Louse


Man is a louse for other men. Thus man is a host for other men. I call this semiconduction, this valve, this single arrow, this relation without a reversal of direction - parasitic.

Michael Serres
The Parasite
1980

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Jason Tannen

Monday, 27 March 2017

Saturday, 25 March 2017

Is There a Way to Win ?


Jeff Bailey - ''That's not the way to win''
Kathie Moffat - ''Is there a way to win ?''
Jeff Bailey - ''There's a way to lose more slowly''
Out of the Past
1947

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Out of the Past

Wednesday, 22 March 2017

Like a Tide


The past
was filling the room
like a tide
of whispers.
Ross MacDonald
Instant Enemy
1968

reblogged from Noirboiled Notes

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Derek Colligan

He Just Learned


Don't cry, he just learned some women have guts.
Rififi
Jules Dassin
1955

Monday, 20 March 2017

To Go Wrong


To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Ed van der Elsken
San Francisco 1960

Steve Buscemi

Reservoir Dogs

Boardwalk Empire

Sopranos

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

Thursday, 16 March 2017

I Am Convinced


I am convinced that happiness has nothing to do with money.

Takeshi Kitano

Wednesday, 15 March 2017

Every Sinner ........... 2

Angelheart

Fat City

 Too Late

Pickpocket

Blood Simple

Vertigo

The Conversation
some images reglogged
via Noirsville

Dont Go to Strangers

Etta Jones
Don't Go to Strangers
(Evans/Kent)


Tuesday, 14 March 2017

As Phones Do ................


     The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms.

Jim Thompson
The Nothing Man
1954

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The Kill Off -1989

Monday, 13 March 2017

William Hurt

Body Heat

Syriana

History of Violence

Gorky Park

Dark City

Sunday, 12 March 2017

Unfinished Business


                A bundle of unfinished business lingered from the Depression - nagging questions about ingrained venality, mean human nature and the way unchecked urban growth threw society dangerously out of whack. Writers and directors responded by delivering gritty, bitter dramas that slapped our romantic illusions in the face and put the boot to the throat of the smug bourgeoisie.

Dark City
Eddie Muller
1998

Saturday, 11 March 2017

To Be Defeated


The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Fullfathomv

Friday, 10 March 2017