Devil's Noir

       Well the devil was drinking Bourbon when i sat down right beside him.He
       didn't look up. Whispered straight into his Bourbon glass, voice hoarse
       n' raspy like Miles Davis
       'I know what you've come for. I know why you're here but there's no
       getting out of this deal. The contract's long signed. I've fulfilled my part of the pact.
       You've got your fame 'n' your gold. Leave your soul in
       the box at the door.

Tenderloin Passage
A. Kaganof

publshed in Soma literary review
2003

Timothy Carey

Paths of Glory

The Killing

The Outfit

One Eyed Jacks

Killing of a Chinese Bookie

Crimewave

World's Greatest Sinner

www.thetimothycareyexperience.wordpress.com

Noir in a Glass #3

                               

                       It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where you're going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

Jim Morrison

End of the Affair

        It is odd to find myself writing these phrases as though i loved what in fact i hate. Sometimes i don't recognise my own thoughts.What do i know of phrases like 'the dark night' or of prayer, who have only one prayer ? I have inherited them, that is all, like a husband who is left by death in the useless possession of a woman's clothes, scents, pots of cream .......

End of the Affair
Graham Greene
1951

Image
Ricardo Moncalvo 1937

They Knew Her

          They knew her at Tom Breneman's Vine Street restaurant where the popular radio program 'Breakfast in Hollywood' was broadcast. She was seen at Britinghams next to CBS on Sunset Boulevard and on Hollywood Boulevard at the Four Star Grill, Bradley's Five and Ten and at the Florentine Gardens.

The Black Dahlia in Hollywood

reblogged from

www.theblackdahliainhollywood.com

Jacques Monory

Chilled Noir

    Her mouth turned down at the corners again. Her bosom turned from a promise to a threat.

The Chill
Ross MacDonald
1964

image Steve Klein

Bill Pullman

Last Seduction
Malice
Liebenstraum
Surveillance
Lost Highway
Killer Inside Me
The End of Violence
The Guilty

Leaving Himself Behind

        Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the streets, by reducing himself to a seeing eye, he was able to escape the obligation to think, and this more than anything else brought him a measure of peace, a salutary emptiness within.

City of Glass
Paul Auster
1985

photo larry silver

reblogged from  www.weimarart.blogspot.co.uk
'the man with the hat'
12/06/11

More Noir Poster Art

Silhouette Noir

         I have only recently discovered the blog www.leclownlyrique.wordpress.com which is almost addictive for anyone who loves the nature of the often bleak, atmospheric Noirish image. Highly recommended.

Hopper motel

         ...........Everyman's cut rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperor's orgy is now a democratic institution...............' Topless Pizza Lunch '.

America

Alistair Cooke

image

Western Motel

Edward Hopper 1957

                                https://www.edwardhopper.net/western-motel.jsp

Noir in a Glass #2

                     Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

Frank Sinatra

All Time Foreign Noirs

Rififi
Armee des Ombres
Le Samourai
Le Cercle Rouge
Lift to the Scaffold
The Prophet
Le Femme Infidele
Un Flic
In the Mood for Love

Sonatine
Secrets in their Eyes
Just Another Love Story
Pale Flower
Consequences of Love
Plein Soleil
Intacto
Under the Sand
Lemming
Le Doulos
Feux Rouges

Make You Pay

   Vegas was and is a hard town that will make you pay for your inability to restrain your desires............ If  you have a weakness Las Vegas will punish you.

Hal Rothman

Neon Metropolis

Best Watched this Year

Valley of Elah
Missing Person
Pale Flower (japan)
Drive

Next on Watch List

Death of a Cyclist (spain)
Hickey and Boggs
Nickel Ride
Delusion

illustration lara tomlin
published in New Yorker

Le Cercle Rouge

              One of the many ice cool Neo Noirs from Jean Pierre Melville using codes of honour in the French underworld as the theme and Alain Delon in lead role.