Dark Fragments #3

Call Northside 777

Born to Kill

Strangers on a Train

Le Trou

Nightmare Alley

I Confess

Vertigo

 Double Indemnity

Kansas City Confidential

In a Lonely Place

Night of the Hunter

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Out of the Past

Le Jour se Leve

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Across a Table Like This

              In such a bar across a table like this i appear to be someone who apparently knows where he is going, confident of himself and aware of what, reasonable to expect when he arrives .....

Alfred Hayes
In Love
1953

       http://woodyhaut.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/alfred-hayes-from-communist-poet-to.html

On Noir Set #7

The Getaway

Night of the Hunter

Kiss Me Deadly

Shutter Island

Out of the Past

Nightmare Alley

Third Man

Criss Cross

Another Nighthawk

        The viewers of Nighthawks become another nighthawk themselves. New York streets are filled with bright fluorescent lights at night, but it is dark. The loneliness of the New York on Greenwich Avenue where two streets meet. The people in the painting appear lost in their own weariness and private concerns. The disconnection to their reality perhaps the period of the nation's wartime era.

excerpt from

Why is it a Masterpiece ?

Evansmasterpiece.weebly.com

         https://evansmasterpiece.weebly.com/argument--why-is-it-a-masterpiece.html

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Angel Heart

Angel Heart
Alan Parker
1987
               https://cinephiliabeyond.org/alan-parkers-angel-heart-astonishing-hell/

Refuse to Believe

There are two ways to be fooled : one is to believe what isn't true the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

Soren Kierkegaard

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In a Contained Space #3

I Want to Live

Transsiberian

Knife in the Water

Runaway Train

Assault on Precinct 13

Money

Caged

Shutter Island

A Pure Formality

Fourteen Hours

Animal Factory

Ruth Orkin

The Edge of Nothing

      I have lived my whole life on the edge of nothing. Once you have had to lead a platoon into direct machine-gun fire, nothing is ever the same again.

Raymond Chandler
The Raymond Chandler Papers
Bodleian Library

Weary Blues

Down on Lenox avenue the other night

By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light

He did a lazy sway...….

He did a lazy sway...….

To the tune o' those Weary blues

With his ebony hands on each ivory key

He made that piano moan with melody

from

The Weary Blues

Langston Hughes

1925

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