Fragments of Noir: 2026

Monday, 6 April 2026

Filming Mob City

Hollywood Backlot on Set of Mob City
LA Times
2013

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/hollywoodbacklot/la-ca-hollywood-backlot-mob-city-photogallery.html

Sunday, 5 April 2026

By the Gods

Laughed at by the gods
And now the final frame
Love is a losing game

Love is a Losing Game
(Winehouse)
Amy Winehouse

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Charles Harbutt

More Bad Cops

I Wake Up Screaming

Ray Donovan

Crime Wave

Violent Cop

Pushover

Narc

The Prowler

Bad Lieutenant ; Port of Call New Orleans

Touch of Evil

Rampart

Rogue Cop

Dark Blue

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Bad Lieutenant

Shield for Murder

Saturday, 4 April 2026

No Feeling

Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Robert McGinnis

Its about a couple who feel that somewhere, just on the border of consciousness - or on the other side of that border - are bad, bad problems. But they can't bring them into the real world and deal with them. So this bad feeling is just hovering there, and the problems abstract themselves and become other things. It becomes like a bad dream. There are unfortunate things that happen to people, and this story is about that. It depicts an unfortunate occurrence, and gives you the feeling of a man in trouble. A thinking man in trouble.

David Lynch
on Lost Highway
Lynch on Lynch
1997

Friday, 3 April 2026

While I Waited

It was about three in the morning at Mexican Joe's. A dingy lantern hanging from the unused electric chandelier cast an eerie light against the cobwebbed walls. Everything was quiet except for the snores of Joe who lay beneath the counter. I was eating hot tamales while i waited for my relief on the Mexican quarter beat.

The Car in the Mexican Quarter
Jim Thompson
1931

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DeviantArt