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Hopperesque

Saturday 30 July 2022

Waiting for Him


       She was a tall, seedy, sad-eyed blonde who had once been a policewoman and had lost her job when she married a cheap little check bouncer named Johnny Horne, to reform him. She hadn't reformed him, but she was waiting for him to come out, so she could try again.

Raymond Chandler
Trouble is My Business
1939

Friday 29 July 2022

Dark Railtrack

Strangers on a Train

Deuxiemme Souffle (1966)

Night Train (2009)

Second Track

The Commuter

Double Indemnity

Bad Day at Black Rock

Two Men in Manhattan

Narrow Margin (1952)

Taking of Pelham 123 (1974)

Berlin Express

Runaway Train

Night Train (1959)

Human Desire

Sudden Fear

The Girl on the Train

Thursday 28 July 2022

Too High to Pay


        The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Neitzsche

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Harry Coren

Monday 25 July 2022

Dark Reflections #6

Quai Des Orfevres

Bad Times at the El Royale

Detour

Le Cercle Rouge

Gun for Hire

The Matrix

Framed

La Verite

Nightmare Alley (2021)

Lady in the Lake

Raging Bull

Suture

Raw Deal

Casino

Wicked Woman

Hoffa

Vivement Dimanche

Laura

Narrow Margin (1952)