Sunset Boulevard
Armee Des Ombres
Friends of Eddie Coyle
Call Northside 777
Mulholland Drive
The Getaway
Hopperesque
Thursday, 31 May 2018
Every Sinner ......... 37
How Many Times
……. I wonder how many times he rolled the sheet of paper out, read it through, tossed it over his shoulder, lit another cigarette, set a fresh sheet in place and tried again. I wonder if he'd been testing it in his a head a little, after four, four-thirty, those mornings when it was impossible to get back to sleep ? I wonder if he had it all pat from the start ?
excerpt from
Criminal Openings - Dashiell Hammett
John Harvey
2018
https://straight75nochaser.wordpress.com/2018/05/30/criminal-openings-dashiell-hammett/
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Hammett testifying at
McCarthy Hearings 1953
Wednesday, 30 May 2018
In Lonely Rooms
I see (Marlowe) always in a lonely street, in lonely rooms, puzzled but never quite defeated.
Raymond Chandler
Letter to Maurice Guiness
Feb 21st 1959
The Big Sleep 1946
Tuesday, 29 May 2018
You Can Die
.......... the director deftly adapted his brother Jonathan's short story Memento Mori , the rough translation of which is "remember that you can die". The phrase is Latin in origin and is meant as a reminder/warning that the earthly life is ultimately fleeting.
excerpt reblogged from
The Motel as Memory Free Space
Motel-registrar.com
2016
http://motel-register.com/post/136640978659/memento-film-motel-scenes
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Memento
Christopher Nolan
2000
Big Lonely City #8
Jack Delano
Sid Kaplan
Arnold Eagle
Nicholas Yantchevsky
Walker Evans
Ernst Haas
Luke Swank
Kees Scherer
Frank Stewart
Howard Maxwell
Monday, 28 May 2018
Monday, 21 May 2018
Roman Polanski
Chinatown
Death and the Maiden
The Ghost
Knife in the Water
Bitter Moon
A Pure Formality
Frantic
An Officer and a Spy
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