Hopperesque

Hopperesque

Saturday 30 September 2017

Rope


               ............ the best thing here is the studio skyline backdrop with fibreglass clouds, a studio sun and neon lights that blink a garish green and red as the film reaches its climax.

Pamela Hutchison
The Guardian
2012

Thursday 28 September 2017

Wednesday 27 September 2017

Every Sinner ........... 13

 Gloria

Narrow Margin

 The Killing

 Postman always Rings Twice

Dark Passage

The Offence

Death of a Cyclist

 Vertigo

Double Indemnity

Shutter Island

The Killers

Chinatown

Tuesday 26 September 2017

Pale Flower

Pale Flower
Masahiro Shinoda
1964

Too Damn Much


                      You talk too damn much and too damn much of it is about you.

Raymond Chandler
The Long Goodbye
1953

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Robert Abbett

Monday 25 September 2017

God and the Devil


         The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of the man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Fred Stein
Paris 1934

Sunday 24 September 2017

Joan Crawford

 Mildred Pierce


Flamingo Road


Sudden Fear


Possessed

Damned Don't Cry

Johnny Guitar


Crawford
(photographer unknown)

Saturday 23 September 2017

All Behind


I don't have any reasons
I left them all behind
I'm in a New York state of mind

New York State of Mind
(Joel)
Carmen McRae

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Esther Bubley
1943

Nightcrawler






Nightcrawler
Dan Gilroy
2014

Friday 22 September 2017

Little to Say


   He did nothing. The law has little to say on things left undone.
Vertigo
Hitchcock
1958

Thursday 21 September 2017

Given To Us .........


           Do you think that i count the days ?  There is only one day left, always starting over ; it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Jean Paul Sartre

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Boris Smelov

Wednesday 20 September 2017

Le Trou

Snake at the Trough


A snake came to my water trough
On a hot, hot day and I in pyjamas for the heat
To drink there

In the deep strange scented shade of the great carob tree
I came down the steps with my pitcher
And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he was at the trough before me

Snake
D.H Lawrence
1923

Tuesday 19 September 2017

Who You Are


                             The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Fremont street, Las Vegas
1949

Monday 18 September 2017