Man Who Wasn't There

Yesterday upon the stair 

I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, i wish he'd go away

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Antigonish

William Hughes Mearns
1922

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The Man Who Wasn't There
Coen Brothers
2001

Brian Tull

The Passions that Kill

For the passions that thrill love

And take you high to heaven

Are the passions that kill love

And let it fall to hell

So ends the story

Softly as in a Morning Sunrise

(Romberg/ Hammerstein)

Abbey Lincoln



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Louis Faurer
42nd street 1946

Slamdance

Slamdance
Wayne Wang
1987

Nina Leen

He would Walk like This

                 But he did not collapse, he would walk like this till doomsday, if necessary, they were not going to see him fall. His whole frame shook as the L trains pounded overhead. It was like walking directly underneath a gigantic bowling alley, with the bowls constantly thundering and the pins crashing together with ear-splitting craacks as the trains braked at the platforms.

Charles Jackson

The Lost Weekend

1944

Good Man in a Bad Time

         He specialized in playing desperation, bigotry and psychosis ...............

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        Robert Ryan never played indifference onscreen. Detachment was never his thing. Good or bad, Robert Ryan always cared, baby.

Jake Hinkson

The Night Editor

July 2016

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Ryan in
On Dangerous Ground

Whether we Win

            Life has but one true charm ; the charm of the game. But what if we're indifferent to whether we win or we lose ?

Charles Baudelaire

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George Bellows

1909

Herb Snitzer

Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity
Billy Wilder
1944

Live the Questions Now

          Do not search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live with them. And the point is, live everything, live the questions now.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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London 1930s

Got it Bad

Duke Ellington
Newport Jazz Festival 1956

In a Strange Town

        Try listening to yourself sometime, alone in a transient room in a strange town. The worst is when you draw a blank and the ash-blonde ghosts of the past carry on long twittering long-distance calls with your inner ear, and there's no way to hang up.

Ross MacDonald

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Death and the City

             The viewer shares Johnny's vertigo through a rapid montage of blurred and tilted shots, establishing an intimate identification with his physical suffering and inner life that is crucial to the film's power.

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Imogen Sara Smith
Death and the City - Odd Man Out
Criterion.com 2015

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Odd Man Out - 1947

Never Alone

Sometimes people who are never alone are the loneliest. Don't you think so ?

A.I Bezzerides

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reblogged via oldogsandwhiskey.tumblr

Mabel Dwight

Jagged Fragments

Betrayed

Armee Des Ombres

Lost Weekend

The Grifters

Le Cercle Rouge

The Leopard Man

 Le Samourai

Reckless Moment

Godfather II

Detour

In the Mood for Love

Eric Drigny