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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 1h

Day 2, movie 5! “The Sleeping City” (1950).

A good one, really stark location shooting of 1950s NYC! Foster Hirsch, who introduced it, doesn’t buy Richard Conte as a young undercover doctor from LA, but who cares, Conte is great. Some genuinely tense scenes with very bleak undertones.

Movie poster for sleeping city starring Richard conte and Coleen gray

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🩸Spooky Sara🩸 @pashion.bsky.social · Mar 29

the x files scully its a color saturated image of agent scully and shes saying "techno - anarchists" tv x-files gillian anderson

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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 17h

I remember how, before this game started, I thought, it'll be done around 11, I'll finish the dishes then, take out the trash, get in bed and maybe read for an hour. I was so much younger then

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 17h

I don't want this game to end but also this is later than I have been awake on a Friday in like a decade

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 17h

Movie no. 4, "Hell's Half-Acre" (1954).

Worth it for the 100% Hawaiian location shots. Don the Beachcomber is listed as technical advisor in the credits! Marie Windsor stands out, once again, as ever. The plot is a little loopy and Evelyn Keyes feels miscast but it's still a fun time at the movies.

movie poster for hell's half acre featuring wendell corey, evilyn keyes, elsa lanchester with marie windsor and nancy gates

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 17h

Movie no. 3, “The Narrow Margin” (1952).

Perfectly executed B movie. Charles McGraw and Marie Windsor on a train for 70 minutes. What’s not to love?

One shot: a lobby card I have feat. the inimitable Windsor smoking a cigarette staring down McGraw. Bonus Robert Ryan/Hour of the Gun lobby card!

Movie poster for the narrow margin featuring Charles McGraw marie Windsor and Jacqueline white

Two lobby cards. Above, one for hour of the gun, featuring Robert ryan pointing with command. Below, a lobby card featuring marie Windsor smoking and chatting with Charles McGraw.

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 18h

(A perfect shot from Raw Deal, for good measure.)

Claire Trevor side eyes her own reflection tensely in a clock on the wall

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 21h

Movie no. 2, “Murder, My Sweet” (1944).

Often said Chandler movies feature plotting impossible to follow; in this movie as in The Big Sleep I actually think that’s more a help than a hindrance. The best scenes feel murky, vague, dreamlike (in this one almost literally so!).

One perfect shot:

The movie poster for murder my sweet featuring dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley

A detective in a poorly lit interrogation room lights a cigarette for Dick Powell/Phillip Marlowe in Murder My Sweet

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 1d

Perry Mason, get ahold of yourself! Have mercy!

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 1d

For anyone scoring at home. This fluctuates. Noir Top Ten (favorites).

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Sunset Boulevard
1950
2
Detour
1945
3
Laura
1944
4
Ace in the Hole
1951
5
The Prowler
1951
6
The Asphalt Jungle
1950
7
The Killers
1946
8
Le Trou
1960
9
Nightmare Alley
1947
10
Raw Deal
1948

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 1d

Noir City DC 2025 thread.

Movie no. 1, “Raw Deal” (1948)

B movie masterpiece. Alton’s photography is so *mesmerizing* — you could watch this movie on mute and have a good time. Claire Trevor is all-time great, Dennis O’Keefe is pitch perfect in this, and Raymond Burr is sinister. Top ten for me!

Movie poster for 1948’s Raw Deal featuring Dennis O’Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt.

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 1d

Big mood

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 1d

I believe in the 10am movie like Gatsby believed in the green light

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 1d

The dream of the 10am movie: beautiful, so rarely attainable

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 1d

This incessant fascination with how you spend your work hours. Like they watched the Bobs in Office Space and thought “Exactly!”

Musk himself often uses the “What would you say you DO around here?” line. The point is that that line and those consultants suck lol

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Rania gaza @elmasmermi.bsky.social · 1d

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 1d

A misplay by the pitcher but it speaks to how relentless the dodgers lineup is, gotta be facing just so much anxiety all the time up and down

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 1d

Man you don’t want the game to end that way. Brutal for Kerkering

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Tomorrow’s already the 10th @tomorrowsthe10th.bsky.social · 2d

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🩸Spooky Sara🩸 @pashion.bsky.social · Jan 16

ANIMORPHS
"Shh.
I'm shifting into
SOUP
MODE"
SCHOLASTIC its Jason Alexander playing George Costanza from Seinfeld going into soup mode for the winter

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 2d

An Autumn Afternoon
Le Cercle Rouge
The Long Good Friday
Babylon
Memoria
Walk Up
Alice in the Cities
Le Trou
Like Someone In Love
Wages of Fear
In the Mood for Love
Cairo Station
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There is so much I have yet to see

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 2d

Name your Fav Non-American Film.

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 2d

It’s international day for spirit week. A kid said I look like I work at IKEA.

It’s me wearing a bright yellow Sweden track jacket with blue piping

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 2d

I’m thinking about Kentucky Route Zero again

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 2d

Rules!

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✍️ 🐦 ⚾️ 🌪️ @5dogwooddrive.bsky.social · 3d

me : Noir Film Festival this weekend :: Milhouse : the fireworks factory

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