From the throat, I'm tied to you

[sovay]

thisbluespirit made a batch of icons from the BBC Dracula (1977), so I have with permission stolen the one of Jack Shepherd as Renfield. I am not yet sure what I'll use it for, but it will distinguish itself. Most of my icons turn out to be multivalent anyway.

handful_ofdust linked me an article of ten female-led noirs. My reactions range from "Hell, yes, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)/Gun Crazy (1950)/Phantom Lady (1944)/Clash by Night (1952)" to "I'm sorry, I just didn't like Sudden Fear (1952)." Set It Off (1996) sounds amazing. I still need to write about Bound (1996), which should be on this list.

(I keep thinking about putting together my own list of female-focused noir and keep coming up against the fact that I could make a sincere one, but it wouldn't be comprehensively informed. I saw Jacques Tourneur's Out of the Past (1947) the other night. It contains an actual, factual, archetypal femme fatale; she's played by Jane Greer and when she drops the mask at last, she's astonishing. But it took me until now to see an acknowledged classic of the field, for reasons, and there are equal classics out there on which I have as yet no opinion. I hadn't seen several of the movies on Vulture's list. —I am reminding Tiny Wittgenstein, maybe they haven't seen all the movies on mine.)

I like this photograph moon_custafer reblogged of mushrooms growing among deer bones.

So far my day has mostly involved grocery shopping and cleaning, but that is all right by me.

Comments

[gwynnega]

Those are great icons! ::swoons over Jack Shepherd icon:: I have seen that version of Dracula many times, but not in a few years. I should remedy this.

Put together your female-focused noir list, while Tiny W. takes a nap!

[shewhomust]

Most of my icons turn out to be multivalent anyway.

Definition of an icon, surely?

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thanks for the shout-out! I'm glad you liked them. :-)

And, echoing everyone else, do your list! I'm sure it will be interesting, and if you have not yet watched All the Noir Ever, that only means that someday you can do the revised list/Female Noir Part 30 - that is part of the thing about posting stuff to the internet anyway!

[ashlyme]

The bones! The mushrooms!

Also, here's a boxing glove on a spring for TW.