Fragments of Noir: April 2025

Wednesday, 30 April 2025

Only the Fighter

Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.

Budd Schulberg

Tuesday, 29 April 2025

Mickey Rooney

Requiem for a Heavyweight

Drive a Crooked Road

Big Operator

The Fugitive (Tv Series)

Quicksand

Alone Together

Alone Together
(Dietz/Schwarz)
Chet Baker

Monday, 28 April 2025

Even Bad Luck is Some Kind of Luck #145

Gun Crazy

Le Boucher

The Grifters

Ox Bow Incident

Last Stop in Yuma County

Dead Reckoning

Vertigo

Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

Bad Day at Black Rock

Queen of Spades

Bound

Se7en

Wages of Fear

Union City

Killers Kiss

Klute

Detour

Blade Runner

Ashes and Diamonds

Carol

Woman on the Run

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Dead of Night

Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

Macbeth (1948)

Chinatown

Witness in the City

The Hot Spot

Requiem for a Heavyweight

I went down to the lobby and slipped the catch and then took a shower and put my pajamas on and lay down on the bed. I could have slept for a week. I dragged myself up off the bed again and set the catch on the door, which i had forgotten to do, and walked through a deep hard snowdrift out to the kitchenette and laid out glasses and a bottle of liqueur Scotch i had been saving for a really high class seduction.

Raymond Chandler
Farewell My Lovely
1940

Saturday, 26 April 2025

Blood Simple

Blood Simple
Coen Brothers
1984

There's No Way

Try listening to yourself sometime, alone in a transient room in a strange town. The worst is when you draw a blank and the ash-blonde ghosts of the past carry on long twittering long-distance calls with your inner ear, and there's no way to hang up.

Ross MacDonald