At night this stuff's a drink. In the morning it's medicine.
Lost Weekend
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Lost Weekend
Hopperesque
Saturday, 31 October 2015
It Seemed Loud
The phone rang. Softly, in actuality, yet it seemed loud and ominous, as phones do at night in dark hotel rooms.
Jim Thompson
The Nothing Man
1954
http://www.crimetime.co.uk/cigarettes-and-alchohol-the-extraordinary-life-of-jim-thompson/
Friday, 30 October 2015
Midnight Believer
I believe that the night tells us everything
The moves to make with the feel that we bring
Midnight Believer
(Jennings/Sample)
BB King
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BB King
album sleeve
Desperate People
Clackety train tracks run continually under the scenes. The frame is always crammed with low-ceilinged, tight-walled compartments as passengers squeeze past one another. The camera is a character as well, pushing through or giving way to people moving past. You can feel the sweat, the heat, the stink of these desperate people scrambling to get from one place to another.
Wade Sheeler
2013 Pretty clever films.com
on Narrow Margin 1952
Marie Windsor
in Narrow Margin
Thursday, 29 October 2015
Night
Night from a railroad car window
Is a great dark soft thing
Broken across with slashes of light
Carl Sandburg
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Jack Delano
Chicago 1942
Wednesday, 28 October 2015
The Damned Don't Cry ........ 2
Thieves Highway
Armee Des Ombres
The Killers
End of the Affair
T Men
Hard Eight
Criss Cross
Third Man
Un Flic
Paths of Glory
Tuesday, 27 October 2015
Heat of the Day
She came to a stop ; he pushed against a door showing a dimmed sign ; OPEN. Inside light came up stone stairs which he took her down , at the foot he held open another door and she walked ahead of him, into a bar or grill which had no air of having existed before tonight
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Wherever she looked her eyes detail took on an uncanny salience - she marked the taut grimace with which a man carrying two full glasses to a table kept a cigarette down to it's last inch between his lips.
Heat of the Day
Elizabeth Bowen
1948
Monday, 26 October 2015
All You Forget
I am stone and steel of your sleeping numbers
I remember all you forget
I will die as many times
as you make me over again
Windy City
Carl Sandburg
1926
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State and Randolph
Chicago 1950
Cry of Noir ....... 8
Le Doulos
Heat
Raging Bull
Memento
Murder My Sweet
Vertigo
Out of the Past
Casino
Sunday, 25 October 2015
Sometimes it Seemed
Eternity is said to not be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed that her abandonment touched that strange mathematical point of endlessness, a point with no width, occupying no space.
End of the Affair
Graham Greene
1951
Saturday, 24 October 2015
Empty Boulevards
A gruelling soul crushing fruitless ritual we do to gain power and social status.
Willis Gordon
2012
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Mad Men
The Damned Don't Cry
Ace in the Hole
The Set Up
The Conformist
Brute Force
Plein Soleil
Double Indemnity
Man Who Wasn't There
Casino
Rififi
Death of a Cyclist
Raging Bull
Serpico
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