Dollar price per gallon of gas, 21 May 2026, Marin County, California. #gas #gasprices #fuel #fuelcosts #California #economy

Blackie on stairs, progressing from a spidery, menacing threat to Death itself! #panicinthestreets @tommykrasker.bsky.social #TheNoirCollective #filmnoir

I'm late to the #panicinthestreets party! Visual rhythms and poetry: Blackie kills, Blackie dies Ratlines framed in background at same distance from camera Killing is a secret, dying is in public @tommykrasker.bsky.social #TheNoirCollective #filmnoir

Style-points will be awarded for brim-trim, whether decorative or protective, or both! @tommykrasker.bsky.social #PanicInTheStreets #TheNoirCollective #FilmNoir #WidmarkWednesday

Greater Quaking-grass A non-native invasive #plant to this area of #California Still, very cool looking #Bloomscrolling #grasses

@tommykrasker.bsky.social Unfortunately I'll be off-line for most of the time tonight. This is a great movie selection, so much content on so many levels! I was looking forward to the watch-party, but will catch-up to the info, observations, and comments afterwards! Best.

Proper #FilmNoir style for fedora-wearers who are watching #PanicInTheStreets on Wednesday would be to flip the front-brim up.... @tommykrasker.bsky.social #TheNoirCollective

#PickupOnSouthStreet #TheNoirCollective #FilmNoir Thank you @ladykdesigns.bsky.social for a great presentation! It is always enjoyable to see what comments, opinions, and added information comes along for each of these rides down dark streets...and subways!

#PickupOnSouthStreet #TheNoirCollective #FilmNoir Head thumping down the stairs! That was great.

#PickupOnSouthStreet #TheNoirCollective #FilmNoir Visual rhythms. Again, how it started, and how it is going now.

#PickupOnSouthStreet #TheNoirCollective #FilmNoir Visual rhythms. How it started, how it’s going. They are not safe and in the clear just yet!

#PickupOnSouthStreet #TheNoirCollective #FilmNoir This comparison just cried out to me.

#PickupOnSouthStreet #TheNoirCollective #FilmNoir Joey, you scumbag! Jean Peters must have gotten really bruised during that scene. It was very authentic looking.

#PickupOnSouthStreet #TheNoirCollective #FilmNoir They should pass that "microfilm" film around the police station to get even MORE fingerprints all over it.

#PickupOnSouthStreet #TheNoirCollective #FilmNoir Jean Peters voice is great in this role, it makes a complete character for Candy.

#PickupOnSouthStreet #TheNoirCollective #FilmNoir Candy's dress is remarkably clean for being knocked-out in a wharf shanty, then sitting around on the lower, water-level deck, etc.

#PickupOnSouthStreet #TheNoirCollective #FilmNoir Cool, now I'm going to get a "downtown name" too! OK, what is that Lightning Louie CANNOT seem to eat from out of that bowl? Like...individual kernels of rice, one at a time?!?!

#PickupOnSouthStreet #TheNoirCollective #FilmNoir Microfilm? That's just regular 35mm. And Widmark is getting his wet fingerprints all over both the emulsion and the base side. Sheesh, that's bad crime behavior.

#PickupOnSouthStreet #TheNoirCollective #FilmNoir Captain Tiger is, for me, unconvincing. His delivery is 2nd-rate Fred Flintstone.

#PickupOnSouthStreet #TheNoirCollective #FilmNoir There it is, to Candy: "You've knocked around a lot..." Yep, she's experienced alright.

#PickupOnSouthStreet #TheNoirCollective #FilmNoir She seems experienced with luring lesser men to their doom, but he is most definitely not a lesser man!

#PickupOnSouthStreet #TheNoirCollective #FilmNoir Here to get picked-up!...oh my...

Dollar price per gallon of gasoline, 11th of May 2026, in San Diego, California. #gasprice #gasprices #economy #fuel #fuelcost #fuelcosts

#SoEvilMyLove #TheNoirCollective One last thing, Hitchcock must have seen/screened So Evil My Love, and then thought Ray Milland was good, but could do cold, calculating evil even just a little bit better. Dial M For Murder (with side-eye!):

#SoEvilMyLove #TheNoirCollective Very enjoyable first viewing. Thanks Tommy, and all commentators! Well done.

#SoEvilMyLove #TheNoirCollective Great camera work showing the necklace in the cab. And then!... Is Leo G. the cabby? That's cool.

#SoEvilMyLove #TheNoirCollective She turns up the gaslight, and then Mark comes through the door. Nice touch.

#SoEvilMyLove #TheNoirCollective He's goin' right this time. My eyes cannot physically do this....

#SoEvilMyLove #TheNoirCollective He's throwing side-eye everywhere in this gallery!!! It's no good without that smirky semi-smile, that's the whole combination that works for me.

#SoEvilMyLove #TheNoirCollective "It resembled a German drug he'd heard of...but was very much better." Yes, please....

#SoEvilMyLove #TheNoirCollective Ohio?!?...

#SoEvilMyLove #TheNoirCollective The woman are sure getting verbally pushed around and commanded to behave.

#SoEvilMyLove #TheNoirCollective Geraldine Fitzgerald is so grand.

#SoEvilMyLove #TheNoirCollective Ok, so to successfully engage in the crime-ing in England you need to stick with unlocked cellar doors and unlocked rooftop doors. Seems easy enough!

#SoEvilMyLove #TheNoirCollective Ray Milland is getting a bit handsy with her bare shoulder. And...there it is, a passionate kiss, then a fade to black.

#SoEvilMyLove #TheNoirCollective Everybody's a crooked thief, the old lady is stealing a sandwich....

#SoEvilMyLove #TheNoirCollective Do NOT tell this man your home address!!!

#SoEvilMyLove #TheNoirCollective Oh! Oh! Ray Milland is already starting with the side-eye! Let me get a pic....

#SoEvilMyLove #TheNoirCollective Hello, I haven't seen this before, and am looking forward to it.

Getting back to some Art for a change Cone, Bishop Pine. It had opened entirely, then partially closed again during a recent rainfall Small sketchbook, convenient #pencil #drawing #pencildrawing #pencils #sketch #sketching #paper #mindful #mindfulness #plenair #learning #expeditionarylearning

One last thing, from today's Deadline.com : deadline.com/2026/05/the-... Re: Perhaps the only reason now to go to Las Vegas would be to see the blow-out digitally expanded wrap-around version of the original MGM/Judy Garland "Wizard of Oz" at the Sphere. #TheNoirCollective #DarkCity

#SanFrancisco #Embarcadero #FilmHistory filmed from the same camera positions at the foot of Market Street. L- Walter Slezak, Born to Kill (1947) #BotD 1902 R- Edmond O'Brien, D.O.A. (1950) #BayBridge in distance #VaillancourtFountain (Bullitt, 1968) was a few hundred feet behind this spot #filmnoir

Hey film history buffs/nerds, the Vaillancourt Fountain at the Embarcadero in San Francisco is finally being torn out. Pieces being put in storage (but what does that mean?). As seen in Bullitt (1968) as a concept model several years before being built. #filmnoir #neonoir #TheNoirCollective

A Hoverfly (native species) sits in the middle of the dandelion-like flower of a Leontodon genus (introduced, invasive non-native) #Hoverfly #insects #California #flower #flowers #environment #wildlife #wildlifephotography #insectphotography #bloomscrolling

One last thing, here's a comparison look at the two views of that rear-screen shot. #TheNoirCollective #DarkCity

Thanks @tommykrasker.bsky.social for a great #FilmNoir ! Nicely commented everyone, always enjoyable and informative. #TheNoirCollective #DarkCity #FilmNoir

Perhaps the only reason now to go to Las Vegas would be to see the blow-out digitally expanded wrap-around version of the original MGM/Judy Garland "Wizard of Oz" at the Sphere. #TheNoirCollective #DarkCity

Geez...the kid is home alone again, and opening doors to strangers this time! That single mom needs some advice and coaching. #TheNoirCollective #DarkCity

More walking on a treadmill in front of a rear-screen. Perhaps the most common aspect of Hollywood filmmaking as a whole, eh? #TheNoirCollective #DarkCity

Re: planetarium shows with live narrators In San Francisco, the California Academy of Sciences just eliminated their in-house production crew (53 people) which created planetarium shows. They stopped live narrations and questions-and-answers a few years ago. #TheNoirCollective #DarkCity