Detour

Detour

Edgar Ulmer

1945



Michael Caine

Get Carter

Mona Lisa

Blood and Wine

The Fourth Protocol

Blue Ice

A Kind of Insanity

Innocence is a kind of insanity.

Graham Greene

The Quiet American

1955

Man is a Louse

Man is a louse for other men. Thus man is a host for other men. I call this semiconduction, this valve, this single arrow, this relation without a reversal of direction - parasitic.

Michael Serres

The Parasite

1980

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Jason Tannen

Greg Tochini

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Greg Tochini

Is There a Way to Win ?

Jeff Bailey - ''That's not the way to win''

Kathie Moffat - ''Is there a way to win ?''

Jeff Bailey - ''There's a way to lose more slowly''

Out of the Past

1947



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Out of the Past

Daniel Freeman

Like a Tide

The past

was filling the room

like a tide

of whispers.

Ross MacDonald

Instant Enemy

1968

reblogged from Noirboiled Notes

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Derek Colligan

He Just Learned

Don't cry, he just learned some women have guts.

Rififi

1955

To Go Wrong

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Fyodor Dostoevsky



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Ed van der Elsken
San Francisco 1960

Steve Buscemi

Reservoir Dogs

Boardwalk Empire

Sopranos

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead

Evelyn Hofer 2

I Am Convinced

I am convinced that happiness has nothing to do with money.

Takeshi Kitano

Every Sinner ........... 2

Angelheart

Fat City

 Too Late

Pickpocket

Blood Simple

Vertigo

The Conversation

some images reglogged

via Noirsville

Dont Go to Strangers

Etta Jones

Don't Go to Strangers

(Evans/Kent)



As Phones Do ................

     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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The Kill Off -1989

William Hurt

Body Heat

Syriana

History of Violence

Gorky Park

Dark City

Unfinished Business

                A bundle of unfinished business lingered from the Depression - nagging questions about ingrained venality, mean human nature and the way unchecked urban growth threw society dangerously out of whack. Writers and directors responded by delivering gritty, bitter dramas that slapped our romantic illusions in the face and put the boot to the throat of the smug bourgeoisie.

Dark City
Eddie Muller
1998

To Be Defeated

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Fullfathomv

Red Rock West

Red Rock West

John Dahl

1993