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