William Dolan

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William Dolan
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In a Desert

      I feel i stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.

Patricia Highsmith
The Price of Salt
1952

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Carol

2015

You May Know

When chairs are stacked and glasses are turned and arc-lamps are all dimmed.

By days when the wind bangs alley gates ajar and the sun goes by on the wind.

By nights when the moon is an only child above the measured thunder of the cars, you may know Chicago's heart at last.

Nelson Algren

Edith Gerin

The Conformist

                                 I want to confess today the sin i'll commit tomorrow.

The Conformist
Bernardo Bertolucci
1970

Starts to Roam

So he starts to roam the streets at night

And he learns how to steal

And he learns how to fight

In the Ghetto

(Davis)

Elvis Presley

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Gordon Parks
Harlem

Smiling Enemies

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Elizabeth Bowen

Dutch Angles

              The technique is very much sustained throughout the film's labyrinthine tour of post war Vienna ; a maze of alleyways, stairwells, manholes that justifies the diagonal framing. Crucially the dutch angle never feels like a flourish in The Third Man but instead a state of mind.

Tim Wong
2014
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Fear is the Mother

Fear is the mother of morality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Yashuhiro Ishimoto

Chicago 1960

Flame of It May Dwindle

The flame of it may dwindle to an ember, and the stars forget to shine

And we may see the meadow in December, icy white and crystalline

Midnight Sun

(Mercer/Burke/Hampton)

Ella Fitzgerald

Night Streets

    I felt like a lonely cat, an aging Tom ridden by obscure rage, looking for torn-ear trouble. I clipped that pitch off short and threw it away. Night streets were my territory and would be till i rolled in the last gutter.

Ross MacDonald

Cry of Noir ...... 9

They Live by Night

Laura

Odds Against Tomorrow

Third Man

When Strangers Marry

Sunset Boulevard

Tokyo Drifter

Othello

Si Jolie Petit Plage

The Thief

The Unsuspected

Out of the Past

Had It Bad .......

When a man had it bad there was no hope for him.

Geoffrey Homes

(Daniel Mainwairing)

Build My Gallows High

1946

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