Fragments of Noir

Tuesday, 25 February 2020

At the Automat

Dark City
Alex Proyas
1998
https://lwlies.com/articles/the-surreal-stylistic-brilliance-of-dark-city/

Monday, 24 February 2020

Street 8 Douglas Fairbairn
True Confessions John Gregory Dunne
Arizona Kiss Ray Ring
You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up Richard Hallas (Eric Knight)
Nobody Move Dennis Johnson
He Died with His Eyes Open Derek Raymond

Falling Angel William Hjortsberg
A Gypsy Good Time Gustav Hasford
LA Diaries James Brown
Leaving Las Vegas John O'Brien
Feux Rouges Georges Simenon
Dogs of Winter Kem Nunn

Thieves Like Us Edward Anderson
The Dishwasher Dannie Martin
Texas Wind James M. Reasoner
Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly John Franklin Bardin
The Jones Men Vern Smith

Bringing Out the Dead Joe Connelly

Silver Street Richard Johnson

Shakedown Gerald Petievich

Wax Apple Tucker Coe

Carny Kill Robert Edmond Alter

Desert Town Ramona Stewart

~ Any additional titles as suggestions for this category ? ~

The Doomed Fugitive

...... compelling because of the way Mason embodies the grotesque pathos, tragic glamour and seductive vulnerability of the doomed fugitive.

excerpt from

Odd Man Out ; Death and the City

Imogen Sara Smith

2015

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3524-odd-man-out-death-and-the-city

Weep for Me

Willow Weep for Me
(Ronell)
Harry Sweets Edison

Sunday, 23 February 2020

Even Bad Luck is Some Kind of Luck #6

Out of the Past

Small Crimes

Murder My Sweet

The Changeling

Night of the Hunter

Hoffa

The Big Night

Bird

Gun Crazy

Nocturnal Animals

Death of a Cyclist

After Dark My Sweet

Force of Evil

Accident

Laughed All the Time

I was an old man, but i died hard. It isn't easy to die. Not even in your own bed. It's a hell of a lot harder, writhing soundlessly in a fiery mist, seeing it coming and trying to yell until the heat gets to you for good. After that you still fight it, writhing like a beetle, long after you don't know any more. It wasn't easy to die that way, but i did, and laughed all the time.

Never Too Old to Burn
David Goodis
New Detective
1949

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