The Set Up

 

The Set Up
Robert Wise
1941

Not a Problem

 Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Bobby Ziek
Sinatra

Mercedes McCambridge

Touch of Evil

Johnny Guitar

The Scarf

All the Kings Men

Round These Parts

        She was the type that definitely never came from round these parts. She seemed to be here for only a short while, ran rings round us all. We blinked and she was gone.

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Dark Femmes #24

Carla Smith - The Square

Brenda Martingale - Cry of the City

Cora Papadakis - Postman Always Rings Twice

Susie Smith - Road House

Trina Gavin - Jade

Sarah Miles - End of the Affair (1955)

The Girl - The Thief

Trinity - Matrix

Alice Moore - Cat People (1942)

Delly Grastner - Night Moves

Helen Stilwin - Jeopardy

Lily Ackerman - Max et les Ferailleurs

Carol Richman - Phantom Lady

Michele Rozier - Man Who Watches Trains Go By (1952)

Nancy Hobson - Johnny O'Clock

Helene Daville - Le Boucher

Marsha Mitchell - Storm Warning

Bridget Gregory - Last Seduction

Was Never Idle

        Like most others i was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hellraiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking but i felt somehow that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time i felt that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other- that kept me going.

Hunter S. Thompson

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Noah Sahady

More Poster Noir

For Small Fears

           I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens it's anaesthetic power. It's good for small fears ; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist ; all right then to take a drink. But for big ones it doesn't do any good. Like water on blazing gasoline, it will only quicken and compound it. It takes sand, in the literal and slang sense, to smother the bonfire that is fear. And if you're out of sand, then you must burn up.

Cornell Woolrich

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The Killing

 

The Killing
Stanley Kubrick
1956

Don't Be Late

You wanna get to heaven ?

Take the devil by the hand

And you slide right into the promised land

Cuz this could be the night

And this could be the gate

Everybody's waitin' for you darlin

So don't be late

What's a matter honey ?

Didn't you pay your money for the ghost train ?

Ghost Train

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Rickie Lee Jones

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Vincent Peters

Life in the Shadows #58

Angel Heart

Sunset Boulevard

Bad Day at Black Rock

Big Sleep

Vertigo

Les Diaboliques

Blade Runner

Blue Dahlia

Carol

Detour

Chinatown

Double indemnity

Touch of Evil

Godfather II

Mikey and Nicky

Force of Evil

LA Confidential

Kiss Me Deadly

They Shoot Horses Don't They

The Servant

Reservoir Dogs

To Have and Have Not

I Want to Live

Perry Mason (2020)

Pickup on South Street

Raging Bull

Mob City

Shutter Island

Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Millers Crossing

Third Man

Nightmare Alley

Night of the Hunter