Camera Noir: Standing in the shadows
Lisa Ross
Out of the Past 2007 Paris 38”x 30
$1450
Film Release: 1947
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Writer: Daniel Mainwaring
Starring: Robert Mitchum Jane Greer Kirk Douglas
Jeff Bailey: I never saw her in the daytime. We seemed to live by night. What was left of the day went away like a pack of cigarettes you smoked. I didn’t know where she lived. I never followed her. All I ever had to go on was a place and time to see her again. I don’t know what we were waiting
Shoot The Piano Player 2007Paris 34”x72”
$3000
Film Release: 1960
Director: François Truffout
Writer: Rancois Truffout Marcel Moussy from book by David Goodis
Starring: Charles Aznavour Léna Marie Dubois Thérésa Saroyan
Charlie: I get my expression through playing the piano and it also helps with my love life.
Ghost Ship 2006Vladivostok 32”x26”
$1500
Released 1943
Director: Mark RobsonWriter: Donald Henderson Clarke
Starring: Richard Dix
(voice-over narration):
The man is dead. The waters of the sea are open to us. With his blood we have bought passage. There will be the agony of dying and another death before we come to land again. Men’s lives are the red coin thrown into the sea so that we may come and go across the waters.
Saigon Noir 2004
Vietnam 38”X72”
$3800
Film Release: (AKA Off Limits) 1988
Dirctor: Christopher Crowe
Writer: Christopher Crowe
Starring: Willem Dafoe
Gregory Hines
Dix--You know who are suspects are? --Everybody in Saigon. - Civilians, troops, gangsters, cowboys, deserters, refugees, dopers, black marketeers. God, I love this town. I really do. Albaby Perkins: I’ll tell you something, bullshit and science rule the world.
Lady In The Window 2007
Tunisia 22 x 38"
$1450
Film Release: 1945
Director: Fritz Lang
Writer: Nunally Johnson
Starring: Edward G. Robinson Joan Leslie Raymond Massey
Wanley (Robinson): There are only three ways to deal with a blackmailer. You can pay him and pay him and pay him until you’re penniless. Or you can call the police yourself and let your
secret be known to the world. Or you can kill him.
The Window (Palace) 2007
Morocco 20”x32”
$1250
Film Release: 1949
Director: Ted TetzlaffWriters: Cornell Woolrich Mel Dinelli
Starring: Arthur Kennedy Ruth Roman Bobby Driscoll
Police Officer: A good lickin’ never hurt anybody, boy. My old man used to give me enough of ‘em when I was a kid. Hey, still in a
Film Release: 1945
Director: Fritz LangWriter: Nunally Johnson
Starring: Edward G. Robinson Joan Leslie Raymond Massey
Wanley (Robinson): There are only three ways to deal with a blackmailer. You can pay him and pay him and pay him until you’re penniless. Or you can call the police yourself and let your secret be known to the world. Or you can kill him.
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