Fragments of Noir

Saturday, 5 April 2025

Second Mistake

Woman was God's second mistake.

Freidrich Nietschze

image Xinitia

Dark Reflections #36

Romeo is Bleeding

Raging Bull

Lost Highway

Aroused

Nocturnal Animals

It Always Rains on Sundays

Memento

Killers Kiss

No Country for Old Men

Cairo Station

Mulholland Drive

Gun Crazy

The Hustler

Flesh and Fantasy

Friday, 4 April 2025

Self Portrait #23

Vivian Maier

Weegee

Lee Friedlander

Francesc Catala Roca

Stanley Kubrick

Lee Miller

Robert Frank

Robert Doisneau

Esther Bubley

Elliot Erwitt

Dorothea Lange

Raymond Depardon

Saul Leiter

That a film as dark and condemning, as crisp and clever as Get Carter should have been co-opted by "Cool Britannia" is repellant. Get Carter is not cool, it's cold but there is power and intoxication in that coldness and it is in that that the picture finds it's own considerable power.

excerpt from
A Critical Evaluation
Author Unknown
from Getcarter.xyz

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Sergey Berkulov

Thursday, 3 April 2025

Redemption is Rare

A world where every femme is fatale, a world where heroes wear their flaws like hand-me-down medals, where best laid plans always go awry. Indeed Noir is moralistic : but beyond the fairytale world of good princes and evil witches, beyond a christian world of heaven and hell : these are tales for a fractured world of dimly-lit rooms and doomed schemes. Real redemption is rare.

from
Gutter to Gutter
The Dark Heart of Noir
2017

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Jake Bresalino