ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): film noir

Showing posts with label film noir. Show all posts

Showing posts with label film noir. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Watching

THE BLACK VAMPIRE
[EL VAMPIRO NEGRO]
Román Viñoly Barreto
Argentina, 1953

Saturday, February 15, 2025

Watching

NATIVE SON
Pierre Chenal
Argentina-USA, 1951

Friday, February 14, 2025

Watching

IF I DIE BEFORE I WAKE
[SI MUERO ANTES DE DESPERTAR]
Carlos Hugo Christensen
Argentina, 1952

Watching

NEVER OPEN THAT DOOR
[NO ABRAS NUNCA ESA PUERTA]
Carlos Hugo Christensen
Argentina, 1952

Thursday, January 30, 2025

Watching

THE BEAST MUST DIE
[LA BESTIA DEBE MORIR]
Román Viñoly Barreto
Argentina, 1952

Friday, April 5, 2024

Currently Watching

IN A LONELY PLACE
Nicholas Ray
USA, 1950

Monday, September 18, 2023

Currently Watching

THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS
Lewis Milestone
USA, 1946

Wednesday, June 1, 2022

DOUBLE INDEMNITY

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Billy WIlder

USA, 1944

Monday, November 15, 2021

LAURA

Otto Preminger
USA, 1947

Sunday, November 14, 2021

NIGHTMARE ALLEY

Edmund Goulding
USA, 1947

Saturday, November 13, 2021

HANGOVER SQUARE

John Brahm
USA, 1945

Friday, November 12, 2021

So, as I was putting the DVD into the player, I said to the dogs, "Ready to watch fabulous Gloria Grahame be all smoldering and trashy."

Then the disc menu popped up.

NAKED ALIBI

Jerry Hopper
USA, 1954

Thursday, November 11, 2021

I WAKE UP SCREAMING

H. Bruce Humberstone
USA, 1941

Saturday, November 6, 2021

THE HITCH-HIKER

Ida Lupino

USA, 1952

Thursday, December 5, 2019

SCARLETT STREET

Fritz Lang
USA, 1945

TTHE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW

Fritz Lang
USA, 1944

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SOME QUOTES

MARGARET ATWOOD

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

DOROTHY ALLISON

If it’s true, I have the absolute right to terrify you with it.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I am absolutely convinced that the main source of hate in the world is religion and organized religion. Absolutely convinced of that. And I think it should be - religion - treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.

So when I say that I think religion poisons everything, I’m not just doing what publishers like and coming up with a provocative subtitle. I mean to say it infects us in our most basic integrity.

It says we can’t be moral without “Big Brother,” without a totalitarian permission. It means we can’t be good to one another without this. It means we must be afraid.

We must also be forced to love someone whom we fear - the essence of sado-masochism, the essence of abjection, the essence of the Master/Slave relationship. And that it knows death is coming, and can’t wait to bring it on.

I say that is Evil.

And though I do, some nights, stay home, I enjoy more the nights when I go out and fight against this ultimate wickedness and this ultimate stupidity.

JACK LONDON

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time living.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

STEPHEN BATCHELOR

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored. How extraordinary it is to be here at all!

DOROTHY PARKER

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

There’s no right answer to the wrong question. Now what do we do?

CARL SAGAN

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues.

When the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites - now down to 10 seconds or less - lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

MARGARET MEAD

It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.