Fragments of Noir

Thursday, 5 October 2023

Perry Mason

Perry Mason
Ron Fitzgerald, Rolin Jones
2020-23

Wednesday, 4 October 2023

He was dignity distorted, bravery becomes knavery, sanctimoniousness masking sin. He was a mirror, jeering at the subject it reflected. Yet so muted were the jeers, so delicate the inaccuracies of delineation, that they evaded detection. True and false were blended together. The false was merely an extended shadow of the true.

Jim Thompson

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Tim Shorten

Tuesday, 3 October 2023

Mosaic Noir #202

Armee Des Ombres

Gun Crazy

Brown's Requiem

Lost Weekend

The Detective

Bob Le Flambeur

Heat

Death Whistles the Blues

LA Confidential

Macbeth (1948)

Northside 777

Rear Window

Wages of Fear

Rapture

Storm Warning

Shadow Dancer

Monday, 2 October 2023

Big Lonely City #210

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Andreas Feininger

Brassai

Dave Gelinas

John Vachon

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Georgy Kepes

Herbert List

Howard Maxwell

Jack Baranosky

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Martin Turnbull

John Jonas Gruen

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Maurice Ambler

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Reinhart Wolff

Todd Webb

Robert Farber

Robert Frank

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Werner Bischof

William J Boylhart

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Ivan Dmitri

Sunday, 1 October 2023

Events were Peripheral

Woolrich went far out on the edge. His characters killed, were killed, witnessed murder, attempted to solve it, but the events were peripheral to the central circumstances. What i am trying to say, perhaps, is that Hammett and Chandler wrote of death but the novels and short stories of Woolrich were death. In all it's delicacy and grace, it's fragile beauty as well as finality.

Barry N Malzberg

http://newimprovedgorman.blogspot.com/2011/08/cornell-woolrich-by-barry-malzberg.html