Fragments of Noir

Hardboiled/Noir

[ultimate-passport]

Lisbon - Portugal 

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But love and hate, he thought now, good and evil, lived side by side in the human heart, and not merely in differing proportions in one man and the next, but all good and all evil. One had merely to look for a little of either to find it all, one had merely to scratch the surface. All things had opposites close by, every decision a reason against it, every animal an animal that destroys it, the male the female, the positive the negative. ― Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

[kino-ani]

Bound (1996) Dir. Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski

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[templeofjane]

Anjelica Huston, the Grifters

[alex-vncnt]

Frances McDormand as Abby in Blood Simple (1984)

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Sonny Rollins in the Early 60s

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“Alone in the midst of millions, the girl, who longed to talk to someone, stood on her fire escape as the voices of others, enjoying the companionship denied her, drifted up through the night.” Loneliness is Dangerous, 1955 Edward Vebell

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    A hot city, slaked out on the banks of the Mississippi, with too much of it's muscle showing to be a dignified city. The Cincinnati Kid Richard Jessup 1963

[summertimenoir]

Yes, I killed him. I killed him for money, and for a woman. And I didn't get the money and I didn't get the woman. Pretty, isn't it?

Double Indemnity (1944) - dir. Billy Wilder

[dieselfutures]

John Gannam

[kafkasapartment]

Avenue du Maine, Paris, 1950. Todd Webb. Gelatin Silver.

[candlelitcinema]

MINDHUNTER (2017) s01e02, dir. David Fincher

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Robert Walker as homicidal maniac Bruno Antony and Louis Lettieri as a little boy he encounters at a fairground in the Warner Bros./Alfred Hitchcock psychological thriller film noir Strangers on a Train, 1951.

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   Just when you think you're freewheeling down a four-lane highway, some jerk tosses a handful of tacky truths in your path. The Harder They Fall Budd Schulberg 1947

[dieselfutures]

Il Gamba de Legn - Milanese Steam Tramway