Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Friends of Eddie Coyle
I'll Cry Tomorrow
Indian Runner
Lost Weekend
Cutters Way
Moontide
Leaving Las Vegas
Nightmare Alley (1947)
After Dark My Sweet
The Hustler
The Petrified Forest
Small Back Room
Thunder Road
Wednesday, 31 July 2024
Tuesday, 30 July 2024
Been There Before
There was too much of a sameness about the evening's delights. He had been the same route too many times. He'd been there before, so double-damned often, and however you travelled - backward, forward, or walking on your hands - you always got to the same place. You got nowhere, in other words, and each trip took a little more out of you.
The Grifters
Jim Thompson
1963
Dark Femmes #9
Michelle Stratton - American Gigolo (1980)
Rose Sandigate - It Always Rains on Sunday
Rae Ingram - Dead Calm
Elizabeth Hintten - The Bribe
Catherine Ballard - Crash (1996)
Vicki Buckley - Human Desire
The Player - The Driver (1978)
Rose Otis - Hell's Half Acre
Jackie Brown - Jackie Brown
Raina Arkadin - Mr Arkadin (Confidential Report)
Jasmine Fontaine - Mob City
Berit - Port of Call
Adele Corners - Kalifornia
Toni Marachek - Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Madeleine Elster/Judy Barton - Vertigo
Dong sik Kim - Housemaid (1960)
Grace McKenna - U Turn (1997)
Monday, 29 July 2024
Survive By the Day
Noir heroes dread to look ahead, but instead try to survive by the day, and if unsuccessful at that, they retreat to the past. Thus film noir's techniques emphasise loss, nostalgia, lack of clear priorities, and insecurity, then submerge these self-doubts in mannerism and style. In such a world style becomes paramount ; it's all that separates one from meaninglessness.
Paul Schrader
Notes on Film Noir
1976
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