Sixties Shadows

           The 1960s are often an underrated decade in Noir cinema as they are sandwiched between Classic Noir finishing in 1959 and Neo Noir starting to take real shape at end of 60s and beginning of 70s. But it's a decade which still produced superb Noir movies.

Plein Soleil

In Cold Blood

Accident

Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Knife in the Water

Point Blank

Le Trou

Eyes Without a Face

Deadly Affair

The Housemaid (1960)

Z

Blast of Silence

Tokyo Drifter

The Intruder (1962)

Le Samourai

Requiem for a Heavyweight

Peeping Tom

The Incident (1967)

La Femme Infidele

Pale Flower

Detective

The Hustler

They Shoot Horses Don't They

Le Doulos

Blue World

 

It's a Blue World
(Wright/Forrest)
Frank Sinatra

More Poster Noir

Leaving Again

 

Leaving Again/Wee Small Hours
(Jarrett/Elling - Hilliard/Mann)
Kurt Elling

Living Begins

           Those who believed that the most intense living begins at midnight ; show people, bartenders, and sporting women, gamblers, detectives and gangsters, small winners and big losers ; artists and newspapermen. If you loved someone who did not love you back, you could always walk into a saloon, put your money on the bar, and listen to Sinatra.

Pete Hamill
Why Sinatra Matters
1998

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Vivian Maier

And You Know

    Maybe all that happens is you get older and you know less.

Frank Sinatra

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Arthur Liepzig

Won't Help You

                             The cigarettes you light one after another won't help you forget her.

Frank Sinatra

Not a Problem

 Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Bobby Ziek
Sinatra

Long Night

Long Night
(Wilder/McGlahan)
Sinatra

Most of the Guys

 You offered them a drink. And that was it. And it doesn't matter anymore, does it ? Most of the guys i knew or met are dead.

Frank Sinatra

Through the Night

            Basically, i'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

Frank Sinatra

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To the Losers

 

Here's to the Losers
(Wells/Segal)
Sinatra

Attitudes

Cock your hat. Angles are attitudes.

Frank Sinatra

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Brian Stellfreeze