Fragments of Noir

Friday, 17 January 2025

Thursday, 16 January 2025

Wherever I Go

Lost in the dark

Too soon, too soon

I feel wherever i go

That tomorrow is near

Tomorrow is here

And always too soon

Speak Low

(Kurt Weill)

Billie Holiday

Wednesday, 15 January 2025

Tuesday, 14 January 2025

The tip off came when he didn't even bother to have you thrown out. I guess that puts you right at the bottom, even lower than Carp and the other mischief-makers. At least they get some attention, they rate high enough to get bounced. All you're getting is the look ; the look that says in no uncertain terms that you've been junked.

Night Squad
David Goodis
1961

Life in the Shadows #45

Laura

Chinatown

A Double Life

Body Heat

Human Desire

Vertigo

Third Man

Se7en

Murder My Sweet

Angel Heart

Criss Cross

Le Samourai

Double Indemnity

Blade Runner

Sunset Boulevard

LA Confidential

The Bribe

They Shoot Horses Don't They

Asphalt Jungle

The Grifters

Detour

Plein Soleil

Out of the Past

Monday, 13 January 2025

The Hustler

Sunday, 12 January 2025

Lucifer is a Lyricist

What is respectable is rotten, beauty masks filth ; the melancholy song of a plaintive chanteuse from a record is a conspiracy of decadence and low greed. Eve is a woman of a certain age in mourning with a hunger for youthful sex and a penchant for cheap sentimentality. Lucifer is a lyricist and stool-pigeon in a grubby search for the jewels of a dead woman. Respectability is a travelling salesman who buys postcards of cemetery monuments for his son's collection.