Lee J Cobb

On the Waterfront

Call Northside 777

The Garment Jungle

The Exorcist

Thieves Highway

Lady in Red

Some Men Get the World

Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my god, I don't envy the blood on your conscience.

James Ellroy

LA Confidential

1990

 

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Jacob Yeates

Glimpses of Hopper

 

Least You Can Do

''You already been a punk. Least you can do is go out like a man''. Then a dull popping sound and a quiet splash.

George Pelecanos

Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go

1995

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Rob Moran

Noel Kerns

I Was Framed

You know what I want to tell God when I see him ? ...... I'm gonna tell him I was framed.

Way of the Gun

2000

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Four Aces film set, Mojave
Emerge Film Solutions

Recent Noir

Nocturnal Animals

Two Faces of January

Walk Among the Tombstones

Only a Plea

You'd be better served taxing your conscience for those who deserve your regret.

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I indulge prayer when the world seems incomprehensible and only a plea to the incomprehensible makes sense.

James Ellroy

Perfidia

2014

Cry Me a River

Passed for Sleep

         I fell into a feverish state that passed for sleep at times. In it I dreamed that I had lost my suitcase on a train. A shrouded woman was sitting opposite in the same compartment, and the train, unlit, halted at a big country junction. The woman, though we hadn't exchanged a word was important to me. Next, both woman and suitcase disappeared. I knew I had to find both immediately and searched the train which was packed without success. Finally I got of it to look on the platform ; it was blinding down with rain. Thousands of people were hurrying about round me, jostling each other. When I found no sign either of the woman or my case I turned to get back on the train again, only to find that it had left. Now I was alone under the glaring lamps, the wet rails.

How the Dead Live
Derek Raymond
1986

That's the System

            I think the way you stop it is to shrug it off. Or take it with your tongue in your cheek. Sure that's the system. At any rate it's the system that works for you. It's the automatic control board that keeps you out there where nothing matters, where it's only you and the keyboard and nothing else. Because it's gotta be that way. You gotta stay clear of anything serious.

David Goodis

Shoot the Piano Player

1956



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Richard Virgil

Deep Shadows #2

Heat

Le Trou

The Croupier

The Set Up

Feux Rouges

 Asphalt Jungle

The Grifters

Dead Man Walkin'

                                            Once I had a job, I had a girl
                                            Between our dreams and actions lies this world

Dead Man Walkin'
Bruce Springsteen

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Sunset Rose
Zoe McCarthy

Force of Evil

Force of Evil
Abraham Polonsky
1948

Chester Himes

             He had a broad flat face, rough reddish skin and little reddish eyes from which tears leaked continuously. He was called Red Johnny. He might have been related to Pinky.

              He wore a white silk shirt open at the throat, green-and-red checked suspenders, tan gabardine pants, white and tan wing-tipped shoes, and the usual heavy gold jewellery denoting a successful pimp; gold ring with a huge milky stone of unknown origin, gold ring with three-quarter-carat yellow diamond, and a gold lodge ring with the outline of an owl with two ruby eyes.

            He crossed glances with Red Marie, standing to the left and behind Coffin Ed, then he spread his thick fingered hands and looked at the gun bulge on Coffin Ed's shoulder.

Chester Himes

The Heat's On

1961

  

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Every Sinner ............

Killers Kiss

The Missing Person

 A Man Escaped

Straight Time

Hard Eight

Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future.

Unknown

Plein Soleil

Blue Dahlia

There Was No Answer

           She disappeared. I got up and put my clothes on and listened before I went out, but there was no answer. When I reached the sidewalk in front of the house the taxi was just pulling up. I looked back. The house seemed completely dark.

Raymond Chandler

Playback

1958

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Daylight Noir
Catherine Gorman

Stars Forget to Shine

Midnight Sun
(Burke/Hampton/Mercer)
Nancy Wilson

Make It Back Home

             Someone once said life is all conjunctions, just one damn thing after another. But so much of it's not connected. You're sliding along, hit a bump and come down in a life you don't recognize. Every day you head in a dozen different directions, become a dozen different people ; some of them make it back home that night, others don't.

James Sallis
Black Hornet
1996

Finding Vivian Maier

Bad Feelings

   
              You know it was a revelation for me to learn that I don't have to be comfortable. Nowhere is written that I must be comfortable. I also thought that if I felt nervous or anxious or unhappy I had to do something but that's not true. Bad feelings won't kill me. Alcohol will kill me but my feelings won't.

Lawrence Block
Eight Million Ways to Die
1982

Daniela Federici

Deep Shadows