Fragments of Noir: June 2020

Tuesday, 30 June 2020

Even Bad Luck is Some Kind of Luck #27

Chinatown

Manchurian Candidate

Klute

Naked Kiss

In the Mood for Love

Pickpocket

Plein Soleil

Sweet Smell of Success

Quiller Memorandum

Touch of Evil

Un Flic

Out of the Past

Se7en

Blast of Silence

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

A Horizontal Fall

Life is a horizontal fall.
Jean Cocteau

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More Jane Fonda

They Shoot Horses Don't They

Julia

The Morning After

Klute

Monday, 29 June 2020

Big Lonely City #109

Tore Johnson

Samuel Gottscho

Jack Delano

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Fred Stein

Thomas Hoepker

Adolfo Kaminsky

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Branislav Fabijanic

Helaine Garren

unknown

Andreas Feininger

Yasuhiro Ishimoto

Walter Sanders

unknown

Miroslav Hak

Paul Wolff

unknown

Geeza Vandor

unknown

They Live By Night

They Live By Night
Nicholas Ray
1948

https://www.indiewire.com/2015/08/criticwire-classic-of-the-week-nicholas-rays-they-live-by-night-130464/

Short At Best

A fighter's life is short at best,

No time to waste ;

No time to rest.

The spot light shifts :

The clock ticks fast :

All youth becomes old age at last.

All fighters weaken

excerpt from

The Set Up

Joseph Moncure March

1928

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https://en.todocoleccion.net/books-sport/boxeo-joseph-moncure-march-the-set-up-primera-edicion-1928-boxing-first-edition-1st~x116375947

Sunday, 28 June 2020

Melville's style remains haunting and elegantly spare, just right for the kind of hit man who lives in silence, in bare and colorless surroundings, with a lonely caged bird.

Janet Maslin
(on Le Samourai)
New York Times

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Kostas Drivas

https://abfilms.org.uk/screenings/special-event-le-samourai-jan-12th/