Playing for Keeps

        In Noir we live in the presence of characters who for better or worse, and with a certain panache, are playing for keeps, and who sometimes shine most brightly when they lose - as though in a loss there's a secret that does no earthly good but feeds the soul.

Michael Ventura

Austin chronicle - 2011

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The Captive City
1952

Doomsters

Rear Window

Rear Window
Alfred Hitchcock
1954

Turned their Faces

        In a ring under a ceiling of exposed joists, wiring, water and sewage pipes, a negro was shadowboxing in the light of fluorescent tubes. Three men in street clothes, one bald, one with deeply furrowed cheeks, the third wearing a houndstooth-check hat with a narrow upturned brim, all turned their faces toward the door.

Fat City
Leonard Gardner
1969
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All Time Retro Noirs ?

Chinatown

Armee des Ombres
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)

They Shoot Horses Don't They ?
True Confessions
Godfather II
Angel Heart

The Conformist

Raging Bull

Millers Crossing

LA Confidential
Babylon Berlin (tv series)
Talented Mr Ripley
Farewell My Lovely
Shutter Island
The Onion Field
Let Him Have It
Dance with a Stranger
Day of the Locust
Mulholland Falls

Devil in a Blue Dress

Fallen Angels (tv series)

Carol
End of the Affair (1999)
The Killer Inside Me (2010)
The Man Who Wasn't There
Deep Crimson
Union City
Hammett
Nightmare Alley (2021)
First the World, Then the Fireworks
Public Eye

Johnny's Diner - 1950

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Marvin Koner

Killers Kiss

     Baby you coulda had anything once ; but no you were too good for me.

Frank Rapallo

killers kiss - 1955

Goodbye

 

Goodbye
(Jenkins)
Anita O'Day

Shadows of the Jukebox #9

The Accused (1988)

Fallen Angel

Blue Collar

Shack Out on 101

The Onion Field

On the Waterfront

Indian Runner

The Hustler

French Connection

Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

Booth at the End

Human Desire

Fat City

Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolff ?

Girl Walks Into a Bar (2011)

The Verdict (1982)

Too Late Blues

Low Down

Plunder Road

Mad Men

Blast of Silence - Sean Phillips

Tribute in the Shadows

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Even Bad Luck is Some Kind of Luck #137

Quai Des Orfevres

Babylon Berlin

Touch of Evil

Blade Runner

Lady from Shanghai

Angel Heart

The Housemaid (1960)

Wake in Fright

Blast of Silence

Vertigo

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Body Heat

Crime Wave

Chinatown

Double Indemnity

The Card Counter

The killing

The Conformist

Lost Weekend

The Grifters

I Want to Live

Eye of the Needle

Third Man

Plein Soleil

Phantom Lady

Croupier

Night Train (1959)

The Godfather

They Made Me a Fugitive

The Hot Spot

Requiem for a Heavyweight

Rear Window

Night and the City

Best Laid Plans

They Live By Night

Mean Streets

Somewhere in the Night