That's the System

             Sure that's the system. At any rate it's the system that works for you. It's the automatic control board that keeps you out there where nothing matters, where it's only you and the keyboard and nothing else. Because it's gotta be that way. You gotta stay clear of anything serious.

Shoot the Piano Player
David Goodis
1956

A Beautiful Dusk

               Truth, like light, is blinding. Lies, on the other hand, are a beautiful dusk which enhances the value of each object.

Albert Camus

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The Set Up
1949

Darkness Take My Hand 6

Strangers on a Train

Get Carter

Rififi

Blood Simple

Killers Kiss

Angelheart

This Gun for Hire

Lives of Others

 Night of the Hunter

More Jeff Brouws

Big Things

Gun Crazy
Joseph H Lewis
1950

Too Many Times

        She was something to look at in those days, before the beers and the troubles caught up with her. You could still see some of it left, even with the crows-feet around the eyes and the tell-tale washed out look that comes from doing too many things too many times.

The Harder They Fall
Budd Schulberg
1947

Faces I Knew

I could read all my sadness

In faces i knew

Down at Kelly's bar last Friday

And i haven't been back since i mistook

Somebody for a friend

Two Weeks Since You've Gone

(Engel)

Scott Walker

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Sabine Weiss

A Most Violent Year

A Most Violent Year
JC Chandor
2015

Fifty Grand

   
       We rode down in the elevator, and went out through the lobby and got in a taxi, and rode around to the Garden. It was raining hard but there was a lot of people outside on the streets. The Garden was sold out.

Fifty Grand
Ernest Hemingway
1927

Ray K. Metzker

Nothing about the Blues

        The Blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the Blues, please believe me.

Jimmy Rushing

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Tom Allen

Mosaic Noir #67

Killers Kiss

Blood Simple

Le Samourai

The Housemaid

Chinatown

The Set Up

Point Blank

Une Si Jolie Petite Plage

Armee Des Ombres

It is Not Against Us

    We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world. For it is not against us. If it has terrors, they are our terrors.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Saul Leiter
1955