Fragments of Noir: June 2024

Sunday, 30 June 2024

Self Portrait #19

Andreas Feininger

Francesc Catala Roca

Gordon Parks

Nina Leen

Tore Johnson

Ernst Haas

Vivian Maier

Robert Frank

Dorothea Lange

Weegee

Andre Kertesz

Lisette Model

Saturday, 29 June 2024

Shadows of the Jukebox #6

Anatomy of a Murder

Bad Times at the El Royale

Blood Simple

Fallen Angel

True Detective

Touch of Evil

Indian Runner

Shack Out on 101

Twin Peaks

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Godfather II

Too Late Blues

Fat City

Booth at the End

Friday, 28 June 2024

In Some Dim Bar

I have romantic notions of drinking gimlets with Raymond Chandler, waiting out the Santa Ana winds together in some dim bar.

Megan Abbott
NYT Book Review
2016

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Mike Stewart
Marlowe
https://thrillingdetective.com/2018/08/19/raymond-chandler/

Thursday, 27 June 2024

Johnny is dying, but he is also a killer ; his first words when Dennis finds him in the air-raid shelter are "Did i kill that man ?". It really is his guilt that cuts him off from other people - why they can't or won't help him - yet this remains strangely submerged beneath the more immediate fact of his desperate plight. His separation feels existential rather than circumstantial.

Death and the City
Imogen Sara Smith
(on Odd Man Out)
Criterion.com
2015

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Odd Man Out
1947

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3524-odd-man-out-death-and-the-city

The Demon Waits

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited ; for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Wednesday, 26 June 2024

Coming Off Shift #5

Breaking Bad

Flamingo Road

Taxi Driver

Fallen Angel

Mad Men

The Hustler

Double Nickel

Last Picture Show

Pulp Fiction

Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

Consequences of Love

Petrified Forest

Goodfellas

Shack Out on 101

Terminal

A Double Life

Twin Peaks

Tuesday, 25 June 2024

Walking About Restlessly

He lit a cigarette and looked slowly over the moving and stationary figures on the broad expanse of dock. Blue-clad porters. A few men in rather shabby looking overcoats walking about restlessly, glancing at the ship ; they looked more like money-changers or taxi-drivers than policemen he thought.

Two Faces of January
Patricia Highsmith
1964