Mosaic Noir #215

Chinatown

Raging Bull

The Killers (1964)

Les Maudits

Basic Instinct

Les Diaboliques

                                                                   Third Man

                                                                 The Hot Spot

You Play the Black ......

         I could remember everything about California, but i couldn't feel it. I tried to get my mind to remember something that i could feel, too, but it was no use. It was all gone. All of it. The pink stucco houses and the palm trees and the stores .....

from

You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up (1938)
featured in

Snappy and Reckless
Woody Haut
LA Review of Books

2011

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/snappy-and-reckless-richard-hallas-you-play-the-black-and-the-red-comes-up/

Out of the Past

          Cynical and bitter, fatalistic and presenting an archetypal hero of Film Noir in Mitchum's lead character, exhibiting masterful utilization of light and shadows, amplified by an extensive use of cigarette smoke, introducing an inescapably destructive femme fatale who attracts men to their demise like moths.

Sven Mikulec

Cinephilia and Beyond

Image

Out of the Past

Coming Off Shift #6

Dance with a Stranger

Flamingo Road

Valley of Elah

Man Who Wasn't There

Le Cercle Rouge

Brighton Rock

Kalifornia

Shack Out on 101

Double Nickel

Ashes and Diamonds

Double Indemnity

Better Call Saul

Fallen Angel

Hard Eight

Twin Peaks

Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

Terminal

Hell or High Water

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