Se7en
Murder My Sweet
LA Confidential
Force of Evil
Armee Des Ombres
Memento
Strangers on a Train
Vertigo
The Set Up
Killing Them Softly
Hopperesque
Thursday, 4 June 2015
Stacked Against
If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.
John D MacDonald
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Glen Orbik
Wednesday, 3 June 2015
All the Jitters
Waking up in the postwar world it was as if all the jitters and anxiety that had been submerged for the war effort were now out in the open. Already a new style genre/sensibility/movement had been developing (though it was too unconscious and informal to fit some of those terms). Later dubbed 'Film Noir' this perspective scanned the hardened landscape with jaundiced eyes, yet with an undercurrent of wounded romanticism that made this dark world something you wanted to plunge into again and again.
Joel Bocko
from Noir and Naturalism
thedancingimage.blogspot.co.uk
Oct 2008
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Force of Evil
1947
Towards the Door
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
T.S Eliot
from Four Quartets
1935
Kees Scherer
Pennsylvania Station 1959
Tuesday, 2 June 2015
Darkness Take my Hand
Ashes and Diamonds
In Cold Blood
LA Confidential
Odd Man Out
The Conversation
Rififi
Angelheart
The Set Up
Le Samourai
Double Indemnity
Criss Cross
They Shoot Horses Don't They ?
Solomon's Vineyard
I saw a cop leaning against the front of a drug store. He had on a dirty shirt and needed a shave. Main street was littered with trash.
Solomon's Vineyard
Jonathan Latimer
1941
Monday, 1 June 2015
Never Dies
You don't know how hearts yearn
For love that cannot live yet never dies
Until you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes
You Don't Know What Love Is
(Raye/De Paul)
Billie Holiday
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