Dark Reflections #30

Thieves Like Us

99 River Street

Angel Heart

The Glass Wall

Vertigo

Human Desire

Mad Men

Journey Into Fear

Niagara

Killers Kiss

Point Blank

The Killers (1946)

Le Boucher

Ministry of Fear

La Verite (1960)

Get Carter (1971)

Too Late Blues

They Live By Night

Quai Des Orfevres

They Didn't See

           There were always eyes. A little tailor on his way home from a movie. A waitress in a drive-in. A butcher-boy on a bicycle. A room clerk with a wet pointed nose. A detective's wife who was alert, too alert. Whose eyes saw too much. There were always eyes but they didn't see. He had proved it.

In a Lonely Place
Dorothy B Hughes
1947

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In a Lonely Place
1950

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_a_Lonely_Place_(novel)

More Gloria Grahame

The Big Heat

Odds Against Tomorrow

In a Lonely Place

Human Desire

Crossfire

Glass Wall

Man on a Tightrope

The Good Die Young

Naked Alibi

They Live By Night

        The moment Bowie is gunned down by the police, the story ends. What happens next is only a story of light and shadow. Keechie, reading the farewell note he left her, gets up, possibly seeing the onlookers offscreen. Four shots for that simple movement, with very slight angle and lighting changes. Is it love, mourning, sadness, a requiem, defiance ? Putting it into words doesn't make a difference. At the final fade-out, the lights are lowered on camera, with her face plunged into darkness and only her hair backlit.

They Live by Night ; Dream Journey
Bernard Eisenschitz
Criterion.com
2017

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Stephane Oiry

               https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4654-they-live-by-night-dream-journey

Dark Femmes #4

Anna Von Graz - Accident

Nicole Horner - Les Diaboliques

Rachael - Blade Runner

Laurel Gray - In a Lonely Place

Simona - Deuxieme Souffle (2007)

Lady Macbeth - Macbeth (1948)

Jani De Villiers - Croupier

Zeena Krumbein - Nightmare Alley (1947)

Natalie - Memento

Angeline - Under Suspicion (1991)

Margot Shelby - Decoy

Cora Papadakis  - Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)

Rica - Thieves Highway

Suzanne Brown - Red Rock West

Carla Smith - The Square (2008)

Mrs HG Cummings - Highway Dragnet

Gloria Trillo - Sopranos

 Cathy Higgins - Tomorrow is Another Day (1951) 

On Noir Set #24

In a Lonely Place

Vertigo

The Servant

Bad Day at Black Rock

Bird

It Always Rains on Sunday

Reservoir Dogs

Rear Window

Remorques

Blade Runner

Double Indemnity

Chinatown

They Live By Night

Twin Peaks

Third Man

Taxi Driver