I Only Know

                           I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

Patricia Highsmith

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

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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

More Thomas Ott

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
                                   https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/154869

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