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

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At Night ......

At night this stuff's a drink. In the morning it's medicine.

Lost Weekend

1945

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Lost Weekend

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
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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

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Marie Windsor
in Narrow Margin

Night

Night from a railroad car window

Is a great dark soft thing

Broken across with slashes of light

Carl Sandburg

1916

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Jack Delano
Chicago 1942

Red Wind

Harry Crosby

The Damned Don't Cry ........ 2

Thieves Highway

Armee Des Ombres

The Killers

End of the Affair

T Men

 Hard Eight

Criss Cross

In Cold Blood

 Third Man

Un Flic

Paths of Glory

Freedom

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Bror Johansson

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

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

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

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

More Leiter

Empty Boulevards

A gruelling soul crushing fruitless ritual we do to gain power and social status.

Empty Boulevards
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