MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE

Tag: Noir

  • The Outside Man

    So. France issues this thing: the Jacques Deray Prize. Annual. For crime thrillers. Ritualistic. Like maintaining a firewall against cultural amnesia. Deray himself? Lyon-born. Not your Melville-grade auteur. Not Becker-level firmware. But industrial-grade. Reliable. A workhorse chewing through continental action flicks with Delon or Belmondo plugged into the lead roles. La piscine? Sure, a sexy…

  • Andor

    The Nocturne of Small Betrayals: Doing this now, probably because of early Andor withdrawal symptoms onset.  Why Furst now? Because I’ve got maybe four episodes left of Andor Season Two, and then it’s back to the algorithmic sludge of prestige TV — safe, symmetrical, and so thoroughly test-screened it might as well be AI. I’m…

  • Bad Men

    “Bad men do bad things in the name of authority” James Ellroy BAM! Marilyn’s DEAD. The town’s REELING. Camelot’s a CON, and the dream machine’s bleeding out in the gutter. You want TRUTH? You want FILTH? You want the hard, fast, and lowdown LOWDOWN? Step inside, sweetheart. This is The Enchanters. Freddy Otash—ex-cop, badge-burnt, scandal-slinger,…

  • A Load Off My Chest

    They didn’t grow the pie, didn’t retire. They stayed. Sat on the nest, getting fatter, tighter. Locked their grips on whatever scraps were left, and called it progress. That’s what they told themselves—progress. Progress for who? Not for us. Not for the ones who came after. The ones who had to scrounge for the crumbs,…

  • Whodunit: The Jacobean Revenge Play Turned on Its Head

    The whodunit, a subgenre of detective fiction, has captivated audiences for over a century with its intricate plots, red herrings, and the ultimate revelation of a murderer. Yet, beneath its polished veneer lies a structure that bears striking resemblance to an older, bloodier tradition: the Jacobean revenge play. While the Jacobean play explores the inexorable…

  • Ripley

    The Ripley novels by Patricia Highsmith, also known as the Ripliad, present a complex and unsettling view of the world through the lens of Tom Ripley, a morally ambiguous anti-hero. Here are 20 truths about the world you can glean from the series: