Still wonder why there isn't Desert Noir.
Have you seen the movie Detour?
I tell you I have this theory. It goes where, you're the one who's not my sister. Cuz mom adopted you from a shoe box full of baby howler monkeys, and never told you cuz it could hurt your delicate baby feelings.
Dawn ,'Selfless'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
DavidS - Apr 08, 2006 4:20:14 pm PDT #317 of 28061
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
erikaj - Apr 08, 2006 4:22:58 pm PDT #318 of 28061
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
Yeah...I think so.
DavidS - Apr 08, 2006 4:52:13 pm PDT #319 of 28061
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Yeah...I think so.
Bzzzt! Wrong answer. You'd know if you saw it. It's the ultimate B-movie Noir. Ends with the male lead accidentally strangling the evil femme fetale Ann Savage - and isn't that a name - with a phone cord through a locked door.
C'mon!
brenda m - Apr 08, 2006 4:57:06 pm PDT #320 of 28061
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
How 'bout Lone Star ?
[FYI, double checking the title on IMDB, there are five separate guys listed as aka Lonestar. Yes, Virginia, there really is a Dread Cowboy Lonestar.]
erikaj - Apr 08, 2006 7:00:51 pm PDT #321 of 28061
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
Ok...I thought I had, but I had it confused with something else...happy now?
Ginger - Apr 08, 2006 7:04:50 pm PDT #322 of 28061
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The Coen Brothers' Blood Simple could surely be thought of as Texas noir.
beth b - Apr 08, 2006 7:10:24 pm PDT #323 of 28061
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I just finished already Dead by charlie HUston
Vampires. Noir. NYC, but with a whiff on New Orleans .
DavidS - Apr 08, 2006 10:05:39 pm PDT #324 of 28061
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
happy now?
Because I crushed your spirit? Yes. But only because it's the noir thing to do.
Now go Netflix Detour. And make sure you get the original from the 40s.
erikaj - Apr 09, 2006 9:27:44 am PDT #325 of 28061
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
Kinda like fish in a barrell, wasn't it? I wouldn't go feeling like a heavy or anything, Hec. It was at least dented before you got here.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 10, 2006 3:11:46 am PDT #326 of 28061
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Bit of DETOUR trivia: the lead actor, Tom Neal, later went to prison for 10 years for the "involuntary manslaughter" - interesting term for a .45 slug to the back of the head - of his wife. [link]