Coming Off Shift #12

Fallen Angel

Apple Pie, Ice Cream

De Gens Sans Importance

The Game

Long Memory

Killer Inside Me (2010)

Man on the Tracks

Terminal

Out of the Past

Last Stop in Yuma County

They Drive By Night

The Vanishing (1993)

Vicki

Hell Drivers

Duel

Twin Peaks

Know in Your Belly

         More you learn about him - from his pimping and coke-running as a thirteen-year-old bellboy to his first alcoholic breakdown and DTs at the tender age of 18 - the more you're there on the ground with him, clenching your body against the next kidney punch. Such pain shouldn't happen. Thompson makes sure you know in your belly that it does, everywhere and all the time.

excerpt from

Naked Authors.com

(on Jim Thompson)

2006

Children in the Shadows #3

Les Diaboliques

After Dark My Sweet

The Housemaid (1960)

Angel Heart

Strangers on a Train

Little Odessa

Rififi

Dance with a Stranger

Naked Kiss

Mildred Pierce (2011)

Que La Bete Meure

M (1951)

Godfather II

La Premiere Nuit (1958)

Cabaret

To Get Sore

            You go into the office and take a book or two from the shelves. You read a few lines, like your life depended on reading 'em right. But you know your life doesn't depend on anything that makes sense and you wonder where in the hell you got the idea that it did ; and you begin to get sore.

Killer Inside Me
Jim Thompson
1952

And Hoping

          So you take the job and you settle down in the town. And, of course, neither one of 'em is right. They're just like all the others. The job stinks. You stink. And there's not a goddamned thing you can do about it. All you can do is go on like this. Other guys go on. The guy giving haircuts to dogs, and the guy sweeping up horse manure. Hating it. Hating yourself. And hoping.

Jim Thompson
A Hell of a Woman
1954

Jail Time

A Man Escaped

Straight Time

Spy Who Came in from the Cold

A Prophet (2009)

Le Trou

Hurricane

Kneeling Goddess

Armee Des Ombres

Brute Force

Dead Man Walking

Night of the Hunter

The Getaway (1972)

The Hill (1965)

Goodfellas

I Want to Live

May Be Wrong

         I may be wrong - i have been about so many things - but i can't recall ever hearing or knowing of a son-of-a-bitch who did not do all right for himself. I'm talking about real sons-of-bitches, understand. The grade-A, double distilled, steam-heated variety. You take a man like that, a son-of-a-bitch who doesn't fight it - who knows what he is and gives his all to it - and you've really got something.

Jim Thompson
Nothing Man
1954