I'm reading The Long Goodbye and its astoundingly good. I'm not sure how I managed to go my whole life without reading the entirety of the Philip Marlowe series but I'm glad I'm fixing that now. #raymondchandler #lanoir

MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Yes, I killed him. I killed him for money —and a woman— and I didn't get the money and I didn't get the woman. Pretty, isn't it?”
Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity
#DoubleIndemnity #BillyWilder #RaymondChandler #JamesMCain #FredMacMurray #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday

#RaymondChandler #cocktails

“I think one of the things about later Chandler is this awful performance of masculinity that feels very wrong. […] I like early Marlowe when he’s comfortable with his flaws and his weaknesses. There’s a much softer Marlowe in there and a much more likable Marlowe.”

—Denise Mina on being the first woman to continue the story of Raymond Chandler’s foundational detective

@bookstodon

#Scottish #literature #WomenWriters #CrimeFiction #DetectiveFiction #RaymondChandler

https://crimereads.com/denise-mina-marlowe-interview/

I'm still doing some summer murder reading. Here's a line from The High Window that only Chandler could write: "From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away"

#RaymondChandler #WritersCommunity #Mysteries #Noir #PhilipMarlowe

Join me in celebrating #RaymondChandler's #Birthday responsibly, not overusing #Alcohol, #Simile, or #Metaphor. #PhilipMarlowe 🎂 🕵🏽‍♂️

Literarischer #23Juli

„There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart.“

#RaymondChandler #GreatThought Geburt 1888

I have decided that, when it comes to hard-boiled detectives, I prefer Dashiell Hammett to Raymond Chandler. Why? Because Chandler gets his first impressions of characters from their clothes. That might have been for the non-digitally connected world that Chandler was writing in and about, but for me? It irritates me.

#detectives #RaymondChandler #DashiellHammett #ClothesDon'tAlwaysMakethTheMan

Film of the day: MARLOWE (dir Neil Jordan, 2022) Wannabe noir thriller where everything is where it should be yet, despite the assembled talents, nothing ever clicks together, hampered by a surprisingly inert lead performance that only highlights how the whole enterprise misses the point. #mystery #detective #murdermystery #Marlowe #RaymondChandler #filmnoir

Seul vrai défaut : l'irruption récurrente de la musique du générique d'ouverture (un jazz un peu trop enjoué, à la Lupin III) en plein milieu des épisodes, qui casse un peu l'ambiance sombre et fataliste du récit.

#FilmNoir #Detective #TV #TheLongGoodbye #RaymondChandler #NHK

3/3

La série est parfois un peu longuette (honnêtement 4 épisodes auraient largement suffi), mais l'atmosphère "noir" est parfaitement restituée.

Choix très malin et évocateur : de nombreuses scènes ont été tournées à la Yodoko Guest House, une des réalisations de l'architecte Frank Lloyd Wright au Japon.

#FilmNoir #Detective #TV #TheLongGoodbye #RaymondChandler #NHK

2/3

Visionnage récent : l'adaptation du roman #TheLongGoodbye de #RaymondChandler par la #NHK en 2014 (5 épisodes d'1 heure).

L'intrigue est transposée dans le Japon des années 1950, le détective Philip Marlowe devient Masuzawa Banji (excellemment interprété par Asano Tadanobu), mais malgré ce changement de cadre c'est paradoxalement une adaptation extrêmement fidèle du roman de Chandler.

#FilmNoir #Detective #TV

1/2

The Blue Dahlia (1946)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Dahlia

The plot of this one is over 700 words on Wikipedia and doesn't make much sense at that. Neither does this dreadful poster. The Dahlia here is blue and is the name of a club, it's not the Black Dahlia, which is much darker, no pun intended.

#RaymondChandler #film #cinema #movies #MoviePosters #cinemastodon #filmastodon #FilmNoir

James Ellroy hates Raymond Chandler and dismisses Dostoevsky, but talks of his love for the LAPD https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-04-22/james-ellroy-michael-connelly-festival-of-books-lapd
#JamesEllroy #dostoesky #raymondchandler #books #literature #crime #punishment #LosAngeles

"I don't like your manner," Kingsley said in a voice you could crack a Brazil nut on. "That's all right," I said. "I'm not selling it." - Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake

#PhilipMarlowe #RaymondChandler

Just re-read The Big Sleep. Not *quite* my favourite Chandler novel, but it's close.

It shares many of the same plot beats as the screenplay while somehow being a totally different story (if you've seen the film but not read the book; you'll be very surprised at what happens). It also fills in a few of the film's plot holes. Great as the film is, Chandler, famously, was blind drunk the entire time he was writing the screenplay and it sort of shows.

#Recommended
#TheBigSleep #RaymondChandler

#RaymondChandler #CrimeFiction #Bookstodon

#RaymondChandler #CrimeFiction #Bookstodon

#FilmNoirFriday #FilmNoir #NeoNoir #PhilipMarlowe #RaymondChandler #JamesGarner #BruceLee https://boxd.it/1tPEh3

On April 6, 2015, The Big Sleep was screened at the Istanbul Film Festival. Here’s some original Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall art!
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#TheBigSleep #HumphreyBogart #LaurenBacall #HowardHawks #RaymondChandler #Noir #FilmNoir #40sNoir #CrimeDrama #FanArt #NotebookSketch #Drawing #MovieArt #MovieHistr