It Dies Hard

"Mostly i just kill time" he said "and it dies hard".

Raymond Chandler
The Long Goodbye
1953

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Summer Knows

Summer Knows
(Legrand/Bergman)
Art Pepper 

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Eye of a Painter

           Nick Musuraca, who had already photographed Stranger on the Third Floor (a film that many consider to be the first Noir) plays on shadows and lights with the eye of a painter. Instead of raw keys of light and darkness, a true convention of Noir, he used a subtle diffuse light to reveal the details of the sets, and used the key lights to support it's dramatic effects. Each scene offers captivating and original visual effects compared to previous and next ones. Musuraca uses the entire monochromatic palette and creates the richest chiaroscuro ever photographed for a Film Noir.

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on Out of the Past

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Dark Eyes

Live and Die in LA

Ace in the Hole

Killing Them Softly

Mr Arkadin

Rear Window

Le Trou

Taxi Driver

Wages of Fear

Vertigo

Strangers on a Train

Color of Money

Third Man

Shallow Grave

Whispered in Your Ear

         Death was a rodent that ate it's way inch by inch through your entrails, chewed at your liver and stomach, severed tendon from organ, until finally, when you were along in the dark, it sat gorged and sleek next to your head, it's eyes resting, it's wet muzzle like a kiss, a promise whispered in your ear.

James Lee Burke
The Neon Rain
1987

Roger-Viollet