Fragments of Noir: October 2016

Monday, 31 October 2016

Phillip Seymour Hoffman

Hard Eight

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Talented Mr Ripley

A Man Most Wanted

There Are None

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

Miles Davis

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Henriette Grindat

Saturday, 22 October 2016

A Man Goin' Round Taking Names

There's a man goin round takin names

And he decides who to free and who to blame

Everybody won't be treated all the same

There'll be a golden ladder reachin down

When the man comes around

A Man Goin Round takin Names

(Cash)

Johnny Cash

Friday, 21 October 2016

Wednesday, 19 October 2016

Images such as a dark lake, a sidewalk wet with rain and blood reflecting a pale moon, a sawdust bar with an uncannily archaic interior, an icy blizzard that sends taxis and buses into each other's grillework, or an indistinct row house the cellar of which is used to bury the bodies of two members of a criminal gang.

Jay Gertzman

Noble loser

(Tribute to Goodis)

2015

Tuesday, 18 October 2016

Francois Fontaine

Monday, 17 October 2016

Remembered Sinatra

They were from New York, Brooklyn, Atlantic City, Hoboken. They were old actors, young actors, former prizefighters, tired trumpet players, politicians, a boy with a cane. There was a fat lady who said she remembered Sinatra when he used to throw the Jersey Observer onto her front porch in 1933.

Gay Talese
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold
Esquire 1966

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Sinatra in Hoboken NJ
circa 1939