Dark Femmes

Joanne Whalley - Kill Me Again

Frances McDormand - The Man Who Wasn't There

Julianne Moore - End of the Affair

Ann Savage - Detour

Lena Olin - Romeo is Bleeding

 Marie Windsor - The Killing

Jessica Lange - Postman Always Rings Twice

Gloria Swanson - Sunset Boulevard

Carrie Anne Moss - Memento

Patricia Arquette - Lost Highway

Googie Withers - Night and the City

Alex Kingston - The Croupier

Jeanne Moreau - Lift to the Scaffold

Kim Basinger - LA Confidential

Cate Blanchett - The Good German

Meg Ryan - In the Cut

Angelica Huston - The Grifters

Mariko Kaga - Pale Flower

Deborah Harry - Union City

Mike Hodges

 Get Carter

 I'll Sleep When I'm dead

Croupier

Black Rainbow

House Always Wins

        It's a study of the separation from reality created through the plasticized world of ecscape through desperate gambling. Money, already an object dependant on it's holder for meaning, is further abstracted and turned into a little plastic chip, to be stacked with it's fellows or scrapped into a bucketed abyss below the table.

excerpt from

The House Always Wins ; Croupier and the Thrill of the Invisible Heist

Daniel Carlson

2015

Croupier
Mike Hodges
1998

https://musings.oscilloscope.net/post/129790228626/the-house-always-wins-croupier-and-the-thrill

Standing in Another Man's Grave #3

The Kill Off

The Set Up

In the Electric Mist

Detour

Mikey and Nicky

The Woman Chaser

Croupier

Rififi

The Underneath

Plunder Road

Angel Heart

The Killing

Memento

Black Book (Reign of Terror)

Dark City

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