Hopperesque

Hopperesque

Thursday 31 August 2017

Waiting to See Us


Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are the princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Marie Windsor
Narrow Margin  1952

Things Ain't what They Used To Be



Wednesday 30 August 2017

Every Sinner ............ 10

Millers Crossing

Out of the Past

 Le samourai

Kiss Me Deadly

Killing Them Softly

 Touch of Evil

Heat

Sweet Smell of Success

It Always Rains on Sunday

Tuesday 29 August 2017

Got it Bad


Like a lonely weepin' willow who's lost in the wood
I got it bad and that ain't good
And the things i tell my pillow nobody should
I got it bad, i got it bad and it's no good

I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good
(Ellington/Webster)
Carmen McRae

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Monday 28 August 2017

In Bad Company


If you're lonely when you're alone then you are in bad company.

Jean Paul Sartre

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Ernst Haas
New York 1955

Sunday 27 August 2017

Saturday 26 August 2017

Mercy and All That


I believe in God and mercy and all that. But the dead are happier dead. They don't miss much here, poor devils.

Third Man
Carol Reed
1949

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Third Man 1949

In Deep Already

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Sean Phillips

Friday 25 August 2017

Heaven of Vice


                                   The hell of virtue is achieved through the heaven of vice.
Franz Kafka

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Thurston Hopkins

Zizek on Vertigo

Vertigo
Alfred Hitchcock
1950

Thursday 24 August 2017

Taste It Slowly


Raymond Chandler

Never Look Back


Last night they loved you, opening doors and pulling some strings angel
Come get up my baby
In walked luck and you looked in time
Never look back, walk tall, act fine
Come get up my baby
Golden Years
(Bowie)
David Bowie

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Wednesday 23 August 2017

Monday 21 August 2017

Shelley Winters

Night of the Hunter

He Ran all the Way

Odds Against Tomorrow

Cry of the City

I Died a Thousand Times

Harper

Larceny

Bloody Mama

Double Life

Raging Tide

The Tenant