New on Tough Business: a collection of critical analysis of the homoerotic subtext in John Boorman’s Point Blank, compiled by @alissadmc.bsky.social, including a chapter from the BFI Film Classics book on the film. Check it out here: toughbusiness.neocities.org/pointblanksu...

my lady and i finished reading the big grab, the novel any number can win is based on, and has anyone else in the world read this. it was incredible

My partner @alissadmc.bsky.social and I interviewed crime fiction author and comic writer Max Allan Collins for our site! We discussed his friendship with Mr. Westlake, his influence, and even the Westlakes’ murder mystery parties. Link here: toughbusiness.neocities.org/maxallancoll...

enjoyed jean-paul belmondo’s striptease in up to his ears today

here’s my top ten movies i watched for the first time this year list unless something changes drastically in the next 2 weeks. discovered some great things this year and had fun watching things with my lady. yippee!

my late contribution to the tarantino discussion is that he needed an editor for the outfit chapter of cinema speculation because he appears to think handy’s name is cody in the books and not just the movie

in reference to no particular article i just read a few minutes ago leaving out any mention of mr stark in a discussion of leftist crime fiction remains truly insane to me

“THE BIG HEAT” (1953) dir. Fritz Lang Lee Marvin, Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame 🎬 Universal Pictures 🎞 #FilmNoir

only partially aware of jean gabin gay cinema before tonight and now our lives have been changed

GOLGO 13 commission! The perfect machine of snipe! patreon.com/posts/golgo-13-144811727

We just posted a piece on Butcher’s Moon by Guillermo Piro, translated by my partner @alissadmc.bsky.social. Piro offers a rare exploration of the compelling dynamic at the heart of the final novel in the original Parker series. Read it here: toughbusiness.neocities.org/guillermopiro

Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner “THE KILLERS” (1946) dir. Robert Siodmak 🎬 Universal Pictures 🎞 #Noirvember

it’s my birthday :) enjoying milk and cookies for breakfast

Extremely badass illustration technique

Directing everyone to our translation (by @alissadmc.bsky.social) of a foreword by writer Laura Grimaldi that analyzes Parker from a historical point of view and acknowledges Grofield as a complementary character to Parker. Read it here: toughbusiness.neocities.org/itaforeword

and of course, there's in & out (1997) which is quintessential grofieldian cinema down to the setting of fictional small town of greenleaf, indiana.

since i’ve done a couple “this guy could play parker” threads i figure it’s grofield’s turn, so here’s a quote from author brian garfield about how he and mr. westlake thought kevin kline would be a wonderful grofield

Here's my complete collection of the original Parker series. With a couple first editions in there!

And here's a bit of Westlake (complete Tobins!) and a few adjacent books - comics, translations, different editions etc.

what a completely stunning, heartfelt & evocative piece. if you know you know 🤫

two dark-toned zippered jackets

the way he made two of the greatest crime films in history and also a melancholic little gay film about jean paul belmondo as jean gabin's manic pixie dream girl. who said that

now i just come on here to post about 60-70s movies and leave jk

watched the sicilian clan earlier, made us excited to dig into the rest of henri verneuil’s filmography. any number can win is one of my absolute favorite crime films ever made and i also really enjoyed a monkey in winter so he’s 3/3 so far

I think it's awesome they can still do heists in France. That shit rocks. It's like 40% of the reason to even have a museum

"we are all on the periphery of homosexual relationships" is like a jenny holzer truism to me

thinking about lee marvin’s 1969 playboy interview in which he talks about how he’s played gay in ways only a person with seasoned knowledge of homosexuality could comprehend, his sympathy for the gay rights movement, and says— in theory— he could’ve been arrested for cruising

We have another exciting and exclusive interview up on Tough Business— this time with acclaimed director Shane Black! @alissadmc.bsky.social and I sat down to chat with him about Play Dirty and his thoughts on Westlake’s work. Check it out here: toughbusiness.neocities.org/shaneblackin...

color study of lee marvin and sissy spacek in prime cut

lets all watch homoerotic french cinema and also parker #lastfourwatched

We just posted an article covering all of the Parker series references in Play Dirty, complete with their referenced passages from the novels! Co-written by my partner @alissadmc.bsky.social and available here for your viewing pleasure: toughbusiness.neocities.org/playdirtyrefs

everyone love parker and grofield

happy pride!!! 🏳️‍🌈 here’s the front and back cover of our next parker zine, inspired of course by pulp novels, especially a few lesbian pulps we found while researching :) back cover text written by my wonderful partner everywhere @alissadmc.bsky.social who also helped with the design of course HEHE

a man like parker…

its really one of those "sounds real similar" and "it would be funny" things, but i enjoy the idea of parker being wasian

a genuine mystery that there's not 1500 little bfi classics type books exploring the blatant homosexual subtext of the world's most homoerotic crime movie. literal masterpiece WOW

my lady and i watched jacques deray’s borsalino today. holy mother of god gay cinema… despite our best efforts we couldn’t find anyone talking about the homoeroticism in any real capacity which is baffling to be honest. other than that we found it to be wildly entertaining. five stars

We just posted a collection of New York Times reviews of Richard Stark’s Parker on our site, with an intro by @alissadmc.bsky.social! You might recognize some of them from blurbs on the covers of various Parker editions. Check it out here: toughbusiness.neocities.org/nytreviews

The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946) DoP: Elwood Bredell

a terrific interview with Shane Black about Play Dirty from preeminent Richard Stark/Donald Westlake/Parker scholars @alissadmc.bsky.social & @lilyslabo.bsky.social

We have another exciting and exclusive interview up on Tough Business— this time with acclaimed director Shane Black! @alissadmc.bsky.social and I sat down to chat with him about Play Dirty and his thoughts on Westlake’s work. Check it out here: toughbusiness.neocities.org/shaneblackin...

We just posted our review of Shane Black’s Play Dirty on our site! Co-written by @alissadmc.bsky.social, we discuss what worked for us as Parker fans and make a few comparisons to the novels. Check it out here: toughbusiness.neocities.org/playdirtyrev...

writing.

who was out here googling “grofield barn theater”

we'll get around to writing a play dirty review eventually but in the meantime im still thinking about lakeith's amazingly girlish grofield scream before getting hit by a truck. that's not really a spoiler he's ok

play dirty was all we dreamed of and more by the way. our beautiful grofield…

showing some appreciation for various international parker covers by picking out some with depictions i feel look the most like him. titles in alt

got our zines in the mail today, written by my love @alissadmc.bsky.social and you can read it here! archive.org/details/fort...

These photos of Claudia Cardinale feeding cats spaghetti should honestly replace the Italian flag