Sunday, 31 December 2023

Being a Dead Man


         Back in the Mojave desert while Vera was napping in the passenger seat. Al had wondered how he'd get rid of Haskell's car and get back to normal life with Sue. Imagining his reunion he said to himself "This nightmare of being a dead man would be over" ...... and precisely on the word "nightmare" Vera's eyes already aimed at Al's face behind her eyelids, suddenly open, and she stares at him like a devil. At this moment Al's life turns into a nightmare beyond his previous imagining. With it's horror story and it's downbeat ending Detour is not trying to comfort anyone. It wants it's audience to feel the logical impact of the anti-social current it senses in postwar life. Al Roberts may be living a nightmare, but there was still time for Americans to reverse course and recover the social harmony they were quickly losing.

Daniel R. Kieckhefer
The Cinematograph.com
2023
                                     https://www.the-cinematograph.com/movies/detour/

Saturday, 30 December 2023

Lately I've Let Things Slide

 

Lately I've Let Things Slide
(Lowe)
Curtis Stigers

Friday, 29 December 2023

On Noir Set #28

Killers Kiss

Angel Heart

Asphalt Jungle

Hot Spot

Third Man

Godfather II

Lady from Shanghai

Goodfellas

Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

The Killers (2013)

The Set Up

Carol

Lost Weekend

Killer Inside Me (2010)

Rear Window

Reservoir Dogs

They Shoot Horses Don't They

Shutter Island

Thursday, 28 December 2023

Wish I Never Played

For you i was a flame
Love is a losing game
Five story fire as you came
Love is a losing game
One i wish i never played
Oh what a mess we made
And now, the final frame
Love is a losing game
Love is a Losing Game
(Winehouse)
Amy Winehouse

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Esther Bubley

Wednesday, 27 December 2023

Tuesday, 26 December 2023

Big Lonely City #213

Arthur Lavine

Chester Higgins

Edward Miller

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Walker Evans

Ernst Haas

FC Gundlach

Jack Delano

unknown

unknown

Fred Stein

George Rodriquez

unknown

unknown

unknown

Kenneth McIntyre

Luc Kordas

unknown

John Duprey

unknown

Mario De Biasi

Marjory Collins

Minor White

Reginald Marsh

Rene Jacques

Roger Viollet

Sam Falk

Sylvian Esstrangle

Rolland Collins

Russell Lee

Vsevolod Tarasevich

Peter Keetman