Hopperesque

Hopperesque

Thursday 28 April 2022

Deal with the Badness



        You said the world's bad and we can't run away from that. You're right there. But you said we can't fight it. We must deal with the badness, make terms. And then the badness deal with you. Make it's own terms, surely.

Lady from Shanghai
1947

Wednesday 27 April 2022

It Was All True


          Whiskey is a living thing capable of any emotion that you are. It's love and deep laughter and brotherhood of the type that bonds nations together. Whiskey is your friend when nobody else comes around. And whiskey is solace that holds you tighter than most lovers can. I thought all that while looking at my sealed bottle. And i knew for a fact that it was all true. True the way a lover's pillow talk is true. True the way a mother's dreams for her napping infant are true.

Black Betty
Walter Mosley
1994

Tuesday 26 April 2022

Big Lonely City #187

Michael Ochs

Bernice Abbott

Dave Gelinas

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Reginald Marsh

Rene Jacques

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Gary Winogrand

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Ted Croner

Todd Webb

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Andreas Feininger

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Sunday 24 April 2022

Dark Reflections #2

Vertigo

99 River Street

Carol  
 
Le Doulos

LA Confidential

Double Indemnity

Chinatown

Decoy

Croupier

House by the River

Matrix

Lady from Shanghai

Nightmare Alley (2021)

Port of Call

Nocturnal Animals

Pushover

Phoenix

The Servant

Trance

Saturday 23 April 2022

Last Chance


It's your last chance
To check under the hood
Last chance
She ain't soundin' too good
To trust the man with the star
You've found the last chance Texaco

The Last Chance Texaco
(RL Jones)
Rickie Lee Jones

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Ida Wyman

Friday 22 April 2022

Only the Shadows




They see only the shadows the fire makes .......

The Conformist
Bernardo Bertolucci
1970

Thursday 21 April 2022

To Find Something

          They threw me off the hay truck about noon. I had swung on the night before, down at the border, and as soon as i got up there under the canvas, i went to sleep. I needed plenty of that, after three weeks in Tia Juana, and i was still getting it when they pulled off to one side to let the engine cool. Then they saw a foot sticking out and threw me off. I tried some comical stuff, but all i got was a dead pan, so that gag was out. They gave me a cigarette though, and i hiked down the road to find something to eat.

The Postman Always Rings Twice
James M Cain
1946

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