Fragments of Noir: August 2018

Friday, 31 August 2018

It's a Wheel

Well i suppose nothing is meant to last forever. We have to make room for other people. It's a wheel. You get on. You go to the end.

Vivian Maier

Chicago Street Mural

http://www.vivianmaier.com/about-vivian-maier/

Robert Duvall

True Confessions

The Outfit

Godfather II

The Man Who Captured Eichmann

We Own the Night

The Detective

Bullitt

Thursday, 30 August 2018

Less Than Love

We merged our loneliness once again, in something less than love but sweeter than self. I didn't get home to West Los Angeles after all.

Ross MacDonald

The Goodbye Look

1969

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Yale Joel
Adjusting skirt
in one-way mirror 1946

Wednesday, 29 August 2018

Deadline at Dawn

Deadline at Dawn
Harold Clurman
1946

Just Dropped By

Memories fall just like the rain, and i remember when

Well don't let me bore you anymore

Cause i'm not quite as lonely as i was before

I didn't want a thing, you know, i just dropped by to say hello

I Just Dropped By to Say Hello

(Feller/Ward)

Johnny Hartman

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Impulse Records
1963

Tuesday, 28 August 2018

We spend our lives turning over dirty underwear and sniffing rotten teeth. We go up dark stairways to get a gun punk with a skinful of hop and sometimes we do't get all the way up, and our wives wait dinner that night and all the other nights. We don't come home anymore and nights we do come home, we come home so godamm tired we can't eat or sleep or even read the lies the papers print about us. So we lie awake in the dark in a cheap house on a cheap street and listen to the drunks down the block having fun. And just about the time we drop off the phone rings and we get up and we start all over again.

Raymond Chandler
The Little Sister
1949

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LAPD archive
October 1953

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/2494651-the-little-sister