Hopperesque

Hopperesque

Friday, 30 July 2021

Thursday, 29 July 2021

In a Trap



    But if love had to die. I wanted it to die quickly. It was as though our love was a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death ; I had to shut my eyes and wring it's neck.

The End of the Affair
Graham Greene
1951

Monday, 26 July 2021

Mosaic Noir #167

Odds Against Tomorrow

Le Samourai

Anatomy of a Murder

LA Confidential

Nightmare Alley


Le Deuxieme Souffle

Shutter Island

Odette

Nine Queens

Death of a Cyclist

Talented Mr Ripley

Sunday, 25 July 2021

Never Get Accustomed


We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.

The Third Man
Graham Greene
1949

Saturday, 24 July 2021

Gonna Bark ........

 
Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Tarantino
1992

In Their Silence


           Carnera was sad and Baer an indecipherable clown ; great heavyweights like Louis had the loneliness of the ages in their silence, and men like Marciano were mystified by a power which seemed to have been granted them.

Joyce Carol Oates
On Boxing
1987

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Harry Hall
Robinson V La Motta

                           https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1813285-on-boxing

Friday, 23 July 2021

More Edward Lachman

Union City

Limey

Carol

The Last Embrace

Mildred Pierce (2011)

Catchfire (Backtrack)

Dark Waters

Touch

Far From Heaven

Thursday, 22 July 2021

Handle It Alone

                It would be better alone, anything is better alone but i don't think i can handle it alone.

To Have and Have Not
Ernest Hemingway
1937

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To Have and Have Not
1944

Everything Happens

Everything Happens to Me
(Dennis/Adair)
Lee Konitz

Wednesday, 21 July 2021

Even Bad Luck is Some Kind of Luck #78

They Made Me a Fugitive

Dance with a Stranger

Kafka

Mulholland Drive

Double Indemnity

Vertigo

The Killing

Carol

In Cold Blood

Light Sleeper

Asphalt Jungle

The Grifters

Third Man

Last Seduction