Truth and Lies

              There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself ; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Franz Kafka

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Iain Faulkner

Art Shay

Classic Fragments 18 - Mrs Mulwray

           Possibly the most successfully Chandleresque Noir made to date.

Mine Just the Same

When i went out the front door L.A was waiting for me. You could see as far as the mountains would let you. I didn't deserve it but it was mine just the same.

White Butterfly

Walter Moseley

1992

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Nuestra Senora La 

Reina de Los Angeles 

Make Ourselves Enemies

                  Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. Often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

Nietzsche

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The Hustler 1961

Henri Decae

Bob Le Flambeur

Le Cercle Rouge

Plein Soleil

Lift to the Scaffold

Le Samourai

Enfants Terribles

Night of the Generals

Yesterday is Here

                                Well i'm going to New York City
                                And i'm leaving on a train
                                And if you want to stay behind
                                and wait till i come back again
                                Well today is grey skies
                                Tomorrow is tears
                                You'll have to wait till yesterday is here

Yesterday is Here
(Waits/ Brennan)
Tom Waits
1987

from  Frank's Wild Years

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Jim McBride

Rooms Like Reveries

     
                      Beautiful women with nothing to do, drifting restlessly around their homes are a common sight in  fifties Noir. They light cigarettes, stare into space, listen to the radio, visions of melancholy boredom.

                One of the best essays related to Noir that i have read for a while is Rooms Like Reveries written by Imogen Sara Smith and posted on Joan's Digest - A Film Quarterly. Highly recommended.

www.joansdigest.com/issue-1/article-6

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Vertigo

Beauty of the Shadows 4

Louis Faurer

Francois Guefferd

Gijon Milli

Unknown

Marianne Breslauer

Toni Schneiders

Werner Bischof

Paul Almasy

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reblogged from Greeneyes55.tumblr

David Rachels

         One of the best Hardboiled/Noir blogs around is Noirboiled Notes by David Rachels. He has also published his own book of excellent stuff.

                                                             Parts 1

                                                   When a woman is all
                                                    Adjectives and verbs
                                                   The nouns of the thing
                                                   Never seem to matter

Verse Noir
David Rachels
2010

Like the Man Said

                          Like the man said, can happiness buy money ?

Stanley Kubrick
Killers Kiss
1955

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Burt Glinn
Staten Island ferry 1951
Magnum Photos

Two Jakes

         'What i do for a living may not be very reputable, but i am. In this town i'm the leper with the most fingers'

Two Jakes

Jack Nicholson

1990