Thursday, 29 February 2024

Even Bad Luck is Some Kind of Luck #127

Nightmare Alley (1947)

The Conversation

It Rains on Our Love

Vertigo

The Wrong Man

Taxi Driver

Ashes and Diamonds

Dark City

Blast of Silence

Get Carter (1971)

Double Indemnity

Hot Spot

Detour

Touchez Pas Au Grisbi

Blade Runner

Touch of Evil

Body Heat

Death of a Cyclist

Boardwalk Empire

Great Gatsby (1949)

The Conformist

The Set Up

Barton Fink

The Hustler

Carol

In Cold Blood

Sunset Boulevard

Friends Of Eddie Coyle

Key Largo

Mob City

Lady from Shanghai

The Grifters

Le Doulos

Night and the City

Last Seduction

Out of the Past

To Live and Die in LA

Pale Flower

Possessed

Memento

Strangers on a Train

Plein Soleil

Wednesday, 28 February 2024

On Highway 49



         ..... his introduction to Hattiesburg was an all night gas station on highway 49 where a lone teenager-slash-halfwit was capturing 'pinching' bugs attracted by the bright lights and coralling them in a bucket of sand he kept inside his little glass booth, a diversion he favoured because, as he said, he liked to watch the bugs kill each other.

Double Down ; Reflections on Gambling and Loss
Frederick and Steve Barthelme
1999

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Tuesday, 27 February 2024

Without a Hitch



          The wife wants new digs. Comes off without a hitch, only the wife decides that the new house would be happier without the husband.

Bridget Gregory
The Last Seduction
1994

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Linda Fiorentino

Monday, 26 February 2024

Big Lonely City #215

Sam Falk

Ansel Adams 

Bert Hardy

Earl Leaf

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Elliot Ellofson

Genevieve Naylor

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Jeanne Ebstel

John Vachon

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Joel Yale

John Guttman

Leah Frances

Jack Delano

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Lee Miller

Michael Ochs

Raymond Depardon

Reginald Marsh

Reinhart Wolff

Saul Leiter

Ray Metzker

Sid Avery

Toso Dabac

Yashuhiro Ishimoto