Fragments of Noir

Monday, 26 October 2020

Big Lonely City #130

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Louis Stettner

Bernard Eilers

Max Dupain

Kerekes Zsusa

Pietro Donzelli

Roger Schall

Toso Dabac

Sladjana Stankovic

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Stanley Kubrick

Kozak Lajos

Louis Stettner

Willy Ronis

William Vanderson

Willem Van De Poll

Sunday, 25 October 2020

And then when everything was in it's place, when the perfection of that particular morning reached an almost frightening point, the old gentleman died without saying a word, without a cry, without a contortion while he was looking at his coloured prints, listening to the voice of the bookseller as it ran on and on, to the cheeping of the sparrows, the occasional horns of taxis.

Georges Simenon

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Maigret - itv 2018

Twilight Mist

Twilight Mist
(Tyner)
Lee Morgan
https://jazztimes.com/features/profiles/inside-slugs-saloon-jazzs-most-notorious-nightclub/

Saturday, 24 October 2020

Chris Menges

The Lost Son

Three Burials

Dirty Pretty Things

The Pledge

Michael Collins

Gumshoe

The Good Thief

Criss Cross

London Boulevard

Writing Day of the Locust

For years he toiled, writing treatments and B-movie scripts, living, like Tod Hackett, in run down digs. He met con men and cops, prostitutes a nd failed vaudevillians. He hung out at the police precincts and went to cockfights at Pismo Beach. He explored brothels, upscale and otherwise. He became a flaneur of the city's underbelly, holding court at Musso and Frank's restaurant or the Stanley Rose bookstore, and beginning to feed all these characters and experiences into a novel he planned at first (according to his biographer Jay Martin) to call "The Cheated".

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