Mike Newell
1985
Monday, 31 July 2023
Sunday, 30 July 2023
Red Wind
There was only one other customer, a souse on a bar stool with his back to the door. He had a pile of dimes stacked neatly in front of him, about two dollars worth. He was drinking straight rye in small glasses and he was all by himself in a world of his own.
Red Wind
Raymond Chandler
1938
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Dick Whittington
Saturday, 29 July 2023
On Noir Set #23
Chinatown
Devil in a Blue Dress
Asphalt Jungle
Godfather II
Key Largo
In the Mood for Love
Man with the Golden Arm
Night of the Hunter
Pulp Fiction
Once Upon a Time in America
They Shoot Horses Don't They
Touch of Evil
Rear Window
Reservoir Dogs
Lady from Shanghai
Taxi Driver
Third Man
Millers Crossing
Vertigo
Friday, 28 July 2023
Thursday, 27 July 2023
Grin and Walk
Don't ever quit. Never quit. Never show anybody you're hurt. Grin and walk through the canon smoke.
James Lee Burke
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David Vestal
David Vestal
Wednesday, 26 July 2023
Shadows by the Jukebox #3
The Grifters
Asphalt Jungle
Pulp Fiction
Sopranos
Anatomy of a Murder
Twin Peaks
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Detour
Mean Streets
Fallen Angel
Golden Glove
Goodfellas
Tuesday, 25 July 2023
Ordinary People
..... the books conjure the workaday rhythms and guilty secrets of Paris and small-town France. Simenon's is a world of second-class hotels and third-class railway carriages, of drifters, bargemen, tarts and luckless creditors. His interest was not in intellectuals or master criminals but in his beloved ordinary people - les petits gens. Ordinary people are driven to ordinary acts of violence and social outrage. Criminals look like us, Simenon seems to be saying. His motto "comprende et ne pas juger" (understand and judge not)
Ian Thomson
The Spectator
2019
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/if-only-georges-simenon-had-been-a-bit-more-like-maigret/
