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Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

#filmnoirclub #HolidayNoir @ladykdesigns.bsky.social @filmnoirjukebox.bsky.social @filmnoir.bsky.social @wahrhaftig.bsky.social I feel I must mention the seriously weird noirish Christmas Holiday (1944, Robert Siodmak) with Gene Kelly, Deanna Durbin, and the menacing Gale Sondergaard. archive.org

#FilmNoir Noirs set in San Francisco. reelsf.com/noirs Click on "Movie List" to see them.

#NoirvemberChallenge, #Noirvember, #FilmNoir "Pandora opens the nuclear box. The beach house explodes, presumably taking Mike and Velma and most of Southern California with it" in Kiss Me Deadly. Two final scenes were shot: 1. Mike and Velma escape into the ocean; 2.They perish in the explosion.

#NoirvemberChallenge, #Noirvember, #FilmNoir 29. Favorite RKO Noir Difficult choose just one. Also I'd include The Narrow Margin - I couldn't add another photo.

#NoirvemberChallenge, #Noirvember, #FilmNoir 28. Film Noir You Watch Over and Over Again

“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.” The CDC’s new autism page reads like an anti-vax blog, and the agency's employees are not happy about it.

#NoirvemberChallenge, #Noirvember, #FilmNoir 27. Favorite noir featuring food

#NoirvemberChallenge, #Noirvember, #FilmNoir 25. Favorite Neo-Noir Shock Corridor (1963) So over the top and fun! The story of a journalist who gets himself intentionally committed to a mental hospital to solve a murder committed within the institution.

This is heartbreaking and enraging. Those who confirmed this monster, in particular Dr Bill Cassidy, own these deaths. Kennedy should be thrown out immediately! 😡😞

The draft dodging idiot posted a pic of this West Point plaque. It contains these words: “Our American Code of Military Obedience requires that, should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law.” That is precisely what Senator Mark Kelly told officers to do. #NoSedition

#NoirvemberChallenge, #Noirvember, #FilmNoir 25. Favorite noir with a boat The Breaking Point (1950) The 2nd film based on Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, starring John Garfield and Patricia Neal.

#NoirvemberChallenge, #Noirvember, #FilmNoir24. 24. Favorite Film Noir Poster

#NoirvemberChallenge, #Noirvember, #FilmNoir 23. Favorite Noir Actor Who Stole Every Scene They’re In Gloria Grahame

#NoirvemberChallenge, #Noirvember, #FilmNoir 22. Miles Davis - Ascenseur pour l'échafaud - Elevator to the Gallows (Full Album) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc4t...

Listen to this pillar of health

#NoirvemberChallenge, #Noirvember, #FilmNoir 21. Favourite Film Noir from Outside the USA Tie: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows, 1958) Directed by Louis Malle; scored by Miles Davis and Les Diaboliques ( Diabolique, 1955) Horror/Noir hybrid directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot

#NoirvemberChallenge, #Noirvember, #FilmNoir 20. Favorite gambling scene(s) 711 Ocean Drive (1950) An electronics expert creates a huge bookie broadcast system for his crime boss, and takes over operations when his boss is murdered. His greed leads him on a deadly destructive path.

@filmnoir.bsky.social #filmnoir, #joancrawford A new biography: “Joan Crawford: A Woman’s Face,” by Scott Eyman (Simon & Schuster), elucidates Crawford’s life and work with passionate research, candid curiosity, analytical clarity, and uninhibited enthusiasm. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, #Noirvember 19. Favorite Boxing Film Noir Body and Soul (1947)

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, #Noirvember 18. Favorite Film Noir MacGuffin The "Great What's-It" - the glowing box with the mysterious contents.

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, #Noirvember Favorite film noir duo Alan Ladd & Veronica Lake The Glass Key (1942) This Gun for Hire' (1942) The Blue Dahlia (1946)

Spicy MN Gov! 😆 COURIER has compiled the 20,000 documents from Epstein's estate, released by the US House Oversight Committee on November 12, 2025, into an easily searchable repository. Find something interesting? Let us know: [email protected] journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/sea...

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, #Noirvember 16. Lesser known noir everyone should see Tension (1949) with Audrey Totter, Richard Basehart, Barry Sullivan, William Conrad, & Cyd Charisse. The always great Totter plays the cheating wife of Basehart's meek pharmacist.

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, #Noirvember 15. Character I'd trust the least: Vicious gossip Madge Rapf, played by Agnes Moorehead, Dark Passage (1947). She finds out that Irene Jansen (Bacall) aided Vincent Parry's (Bogart) escape from San Quentin. Madge testified against VP at his murder trial.

#noirvember, #noirvemberchallenge, #filmnoir I put Cornell Woolrich on my Mount Rushmore of Directors & Writers because his novels and short stories were the basis of numerous films noir. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...

#noirvember, #noirvemberchallenge, #filmnoir 14. Mount Rushmore of Noir Women: Grahame, Bacall, Stanwyck, Crawford Men: Bogart, Ladd, Duryea, Widmark Directors & Writers: N. Ray, B. Wilder, F. Lang, C. Woolrich Runners-up: Davis, Lake, Tierney (G. & L.), Andrews, Keyes, Heflin, Lupino, Siodmak

#noirvember, #noirvemberchallenge, #filmnoir 13. Favorite low-budget noir I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948) Made by Monogram Pictures, one of the "Poverty Row" studios archive.org/details/i-wo...

#noirvember, #noirvemberchallenge, #filmnoir 12. Sexiest noir Gilda (1946) Read more on the tangled relationships between the characters in this article. montagesmagazine.com/2024/11/im-n... 2/2

#noirvember, #noirvemberchallenge, #filmnoir 12. Sexiest noir Gilda (1946) Rita Hayworth is the epitome of femme fatale in a film loaded with sexual tension, between Gilda and Johnny (Glenn Ford), and Johnny and Ballin (George Macready). Several film scholars cite the homo-eroticism angle. 1/2

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, #Noirvember 11. Favorite bar scene or cocktail DOA (1950) Frank Bigelow (Edmond O'Brien) is slipped a Mickey at a San Francisco dive and jive bar. He learns that he has been incurably poisoned and has just days to live. reelsf.com/doa-fisherma...

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, #Noirvember @ladykdesigns.bsky.social @noirbeachshack.bsky.social @filmnoirjukebox.bsky.social @wahrhaftig.bsky.social 10. Favorite Gloria Grahame film Tie: In a Lonely Place (1950) as Laurel Gray and The Big Heat (1953) as Debby Marsh

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, #Noirvember @ladykdesigns.bsky.social @noirbeachshack.bsky.social @filmnoirjukebox.bsky.social @wahrhaftig.bsky.social 9. Favorite Dan Duryea film Black Angel (1946) as Martin Blair

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, #Noirvember @ladykdesigns.bsky.social @noirbeachshack.bsky.social @filmnoirjukebox.bsky.social The Smithereens hit song, In a Lonely Place (1986), used this line as the refrain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaJl... 2/2

#NoirvemberChallenge, #Noirvember @ladykdesigns.bsky.social @noirbeachshack.bsky.social @filmnoirjukebox.bsky.social 8. Favorite line: “I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.” Humphrey Bogart as Dixon Steele, In a Lonely Place (1950) 1/2

Talk about being willing to give EVERYTHING to your country!

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, @ladykdesigns.bsky.social @noirbeachshack.bsky.social 7. Best dream sequence Spellbound. Two minutes of the dream sequence appear in the final film, but according to Ingrid Bergman, the original had been twenty minutes long. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyPe...

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, @ladykdesigns.bsky.social 6. Coolest character Philip Raven, a contract killer played by Alan Ladd, who has a soft spot for cats.

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, @ladykdesigns.bsky.social 5. Film noir I'd show someone who's never seen one

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, @ladykdesigns.bsky.social 4. Film ahead of its time

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, @ladykdesigns.bsky.social 3. The film that made me a fan (first one I remember seeing)

#NoirvemberChallenge, #FilmNoir, @ladykdesigns.bsky.social I'm just now catching up! 1. Favorite opening scene www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pmI... 2. Favorite character introduction www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5D-...

The GOP spent months "investigating" an autopen, calling it a threat to democracy itself, surely they could spend some time looking into a POTUS pardoning someone he says he doesn't know that just happened to make his sons $2B in crypto profits? Is this democracy working? I can't hear a thing.

This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans. Nero would be proud.

Mike Don’t Know

CALIFORNIA: “Contra Costa County to declare local emergency, issue grocery debit cards during SNAP freeze” www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco... - CBS News Bay Area #BayArea #California #ContraCostaCounty #EastBay #Martinez #SNAP

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