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60 of 67 · most liked first#filmnoir #moviesky #filmsky Tuesday has a feel. THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (1948) Farley Granger & Cathy O’Donnell
unlabelledView post →Next Friday let's plan on watching one of my favorite noirs: THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (1948). Film starts at 8pE. #TCMParty ^JW #SummerOfDarkness
unlabelledView post →They Live By Night (1948) directed by Nicholas Ray (in his debut). Starring Cathy O’Donnell, Farley Granger & Howard da Silva. #FilmNoir #Cinema #Film
unlabelledView post →Windsor is fantastic in this film and the cinematography is amazing. The cinematographer for The Narrow Margin was George E. Diskant. His work included They Live by Night (1949). Fantastic #TCMParty #TheNarrowMargin #SUTS
unlabelledView post →They Live by Night (1948) #filmnoir directed by Nicholas Ray in his debut and starring Cathy O'Donnell and Farley Granger. Although the film is considered the prototype for the "couple on the run" genre, the story was first depicted in Fritz Lang's '37 film You Only Live Once. 🎄📽️
unlabelledView post →Live By Night (2016) didn’t do well at the box office but no film captures 1920s Ybor City (and what came to be Tampa) like this. It’s a flawed film but Affleck directs the shit out if it.
unlabelledView post →Remembering legendary filmmaker Nicholas Ray, born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle, Jr., on August 7, 1911, Galesville, WI (d. June 16, 1979). Faves: They Live by Night (1948), In a Lonely Place (1950), Johnny Guitar (1954), Rebel Without A Cause (1955), and later films with Wim Wenders. More: alt text
unlabelledView post →They Live by Night (1948) was the first film to have a tracking shot from a helicopter. Insane that Ray requested to do a chase sequence to open the film and then state it needs to be a tracking shot from a helicopter. Glad the producer had faith in Ray's vision cause its so cool.
unlabelledView post →They Live by Night (1948) The quintessential "young lovers on the run" movie. Pure cinematic poetry. Directed and co-written by Nicholas Ray Cinematography by George E. Diskant Starring Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell, BOTD in 1923
unlabelledView post →watched LIVE BY NIGHT on the plane last night, and the absence of wifi meant i a) thought it was just a new movie i'd never heard of, and b) based on its meandering plot, was a biopic neither was true!
unlabelledView post →Live by Night. No movie so perfectly captures early 20th century Florida like this one.
unlabelledView post →Reasons to watch Nicholas Ray's achingly tender, tragic film noir THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (1948) this December: a) It's partly set at Christmas b) It's excellent. #FilmSky #FilmNoir
unlabelledView post →#TCMParty DVR Alert! TCM kicks off another great "Summer of Darkness" lineup tonight at 5pm with Nicholas Ray's seminal "lovers on the lam" noir THEY LIVE BY NIGHT. www.denofcinema.com/blu-ray-reis...
unlabelledView post →11/9/46: Ingmar Bergman's 2nd, It Rains on our Love Minor but very #Noirvember: @thecinematheque.bsky.social - “Bergman Noir": thecinematheque.ca/series/bergm... @aheartofgould.bsky.social / @bwdr.bsky.social checks in w/Live by Night, Gun for Hire &more: www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2018/11/19/i...
unlabelledView post →Exciting weekend coming: They Live By Night (on film) Thursday night. The Mastermind Friday afternoon. Cat People (on film) Friday night. And…Canyon Passage Saturday morning. Some are calling it perhaps the greatest moviegoing weekend of all time
unlabelledView post →Happy #FilmNoirValentine Day 💌 "They Live By Night" (1948) An immense film. Farley Granger as Bowie, and Cathy O’Donnell as Keechie. Directed by Nicholas Ray, is a film noir that tells the story of two young lovers caught in a world of crime and violence #FilmNoir #FilmSky 📽️
unlabelledView post →DRUGSTORE COWBOY: Obviously a totem for the indie explosion of the early ‘90s but just like the New Hollywood films from the previous generation Van Sant fuses the cinema of the past, borrowing from ‘40s noir like THEY LIVE BY NIGHT, with the jittery pastoral this film lives in. Really good stuff.
unlabelledView post →Some film noir titles are very unhelpful. Struggling to parse They Drive By Night and They Live By Night!
unlabelledView post →They had their baby faster in this movie than in They Live By Night. Good for them. #TCMParty #SideStreet
unlabelledView post →Their sales are great and yet so bad as I am compelled to buy everything. So far this year I got the Brazil collection with three versions of the movie, Freaks, Inland Empire and They Live By Night.
unlabelledView post →Celebrate #ChrisMessina's birthday with his screen-worn costume & more from 2016's #LiveByNight movie on display tinyurl.com/nvn99933
unlabelledView post →6 August 1948: Film noir ‘They Live by Night’, the directorial debut of Nicholas Ray, premiered in London. Rotten Tomatoes score: 96%* Letterboxd score: 3.9 (78%) (*Popcornmeter: 80%) #FilmSky #NoirSky #TodayAtTheMovies
unlabelledView post →Remains the only movie I’ve ever walked out of, and I am a person who sat through all of LIVE BY NIGHT.
unlabelledView post →#OTD Remembering Nicholas Ray (August 7, 1911 — June 16, 1979), with Gloria Grahame on the set of In A Lonely Place. They Live by Night (1948) was his 1st film, & it already had his full attention: 2 young people destroyed by a world that had decided what they were worth p 1 #NicholasRay #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →Every single movie he's directed has been really, really good - Gone Baby Gone, The Town, Argo, Air (I haven't seen Live by Night, the only one I heard was pretty blah) - looking forward to #Animals coming out this year
unlabelledView post →Like Dwayne Johnson's "Ballers" and the movie "Live By Night" that were either filming in Florida or planning to. It was stupid. And then all the good trades people moved to Atlanta, so there's no infrastructure left either.
unlabelledView post →The details he told me over a few cocktails: After boxing he was in financials in NY. 9/11 happened and a friend of his offered him a place to work in Georgia as heading up a pizza restaurant. He was in the movie Ben Affleck’s “Live By Night.” (I just learned that! Need to see it.)
unlabelledView post →So many good ones!! Definitely MYSTIC RIVER is high on my list, but the 6 books of the Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro PI series are also REALLY good. (Gone Baby, Gone made it to a film.) I liked LIVE BY NIGHT a lot too (also made into a film).
unlabelledView post →#NoirvemberChallenge Day 11 Favorite Film Noir Couple. Farley Granger & Cathy O'Donnell in They Live By Night. They break my heart every time I watch
unlabelledView post →Director Nicholas Ray’s film noir drama ‘They Live By Night’ starring Farley Granger and Cathy O’Donnell opened in US theaters this week 75 years ago. ⛓️💞🔥 #OTD “𝙸'𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚙𝚜 𝚊 𝚋𝚕𝚘𝚌𝚔 𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐. 𝙰𝚗𝚢𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚐𝚎𝚝𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚖𝚢 𝚠𝚊𝚢, 𝙸'𝚕𝚕 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚖𝚙 '𝚎𝚖!”
unlabelledView post →The Bat People (a/k/a They Live by Night): The problem with a horror movie where a bunch of bats attack a guy en masse is when you get their little faces in closeup, they're pretty cute. "Hi, I'm Batsy! Let's play!" The two leads have Big Chemistry so I'm not shocked they're a long-married couple.
unlabelledView post →I took an extremely illuminating series of courses w/ Ben Whitmer abt literary noir vs film noir vs film gris (a short-lived synthesis of film and lit noir sensibilities, primarily French. Eg, “They Live By Night”) vs neo-noir
unlabelledView post →Hello, friends! For our latest episode, we're diving into the world of Holiday Noir with THE THIN MAN (1934), REPEAT PERFORMANCE (1947), and THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (1948). This was another fun one...although the mood definitely darkens by the end! citizendame.podbean.com/e/episode-26...
unlabelledView post →Was looking forward to seeing #Loophole for the first time and even woke up early to watch it with #TCMParty But I live in Canada so for some inexplicable reason #NoirAlley decided to program a movie not available here. I love THEY LIVE BY NIGHT (1948) but I can watch it anytime #TCM
unlabelledView post →It’s so good. The whole film looks stunning. I feel like I could barely breathe during the whole climax scene on the stairs. Absolute sicko shit. Ray has become an all timer director for me. Bigger Than Life, In A Lonely Place, They Live By Night, On Dangerous Ground. All masterpieces.
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching They Live By Night (1948) with Farley Granger and Cathy O'Donnell. An escaped convict injured during a robbery falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning. Nicholas Ray directed his 1st film.
unlabelledView post →Celebrate #SiennaMiller's birthday with her film costume & more from 2016's #LiveByNight on display tinyurl.com/3bhnsahm
unlabelledView post →Today's #Noirvember pick: A seminal "lovers on the lam" noir, Nicholas Ray's THEY LIVE BY NIGHT. My review: denofcinema.com/blu-ray-reis...
unlabelledView post →Blonde Death combines a John Waters-esque sensibility with a "young lovers on the run" film like "They Live By Night" or "Badlands." Terrific script, a great lead performance from Sara Lee Wade and some key scenes filmed without permission at Disneyland - "Blonde Death" is a rollicking good time.
unlabelledView post →It was actually Ray's first film, but didn't get released until after They Live By Night. Still managed to predate the two big showbiz noirs, Sunset Boulevard and Ray's own In A Lonely Place (also starring Gloria Grahame), by a year. Funny how they cluster together like that.
unlabelledView post →You’ve inherited a movie theater, what’s your first double feature? They Live by Night (1948) and Streets of Fire (1984)
unlabelledView post →📽️This Week in Film: Jul 2 @ 7 PM – They Live by Night Jul 3 @ 7 PM – When a Woman Ascends the Stairs Jul 4 @ 5 PM – Nashville Jul 5 @ 4:30 PM – Leave Her to Heaven Jul 5 @ 7 PM – Mirror Jul 6 @ 4:30 PM – Vermiglio Jul 6 @ 7 PM – That Cold Day in the Park wfly.co/Kg8t4
unlabelledView post →reading up on wikipedia, song is named after the 1970s movie directed by robert altman, from the source novel Thieves Like Us. That novel was also the source for the nicholas ray movie They Live By Night, which also wouldn't be a bad title for this song
unlabelledView post →LIVE BY NIGHT is very much the kind of movie that I don’t typically enjoy, and while I don’t think it’s all bad, enjoy it I did not. Not super interested in the time period and the movie also doesn’t feel super focused in what it wants the audience to feel. I do like Affleck a lot though #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →The problem with They Live by Night is that its existence makes it impossible for me to pitch a movie that's like They Live meets Baywatch Nights.
unlabelledView post →On this day (10th November) in 1983, the Scala Cinema was showing They Live By Night, Johnny Guitar and The Lusty Men as a Nicholas Ray triple bill.
unlabelledView post →Finally saw the classic They Live By Night. What a beautiful, tragic film. What a heartbreaker.
unlabelledView post →Today - Nicholas Ray's THEY LIVE BY NIGHT at Paradise via Toronto Film Society, LEGALLY BLONDE at Cineplex VIP locations, more! Rundown: https://letterboxd.com/torontoplex/list/toronto-on-screen-for-mon-aug-21-2023/detail/ #toRep
unlabelledView post →A powerful but difficult watch. Wim Wenders documents the final days of his friend, director Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause, In a Lonely Place, They Live by Night) before his death from lung cancer. A stirring homage to a man he clearly had a huge respect for.
unlabelledView post →The (movie) Live by Night 4K (Prime)(US) $4.99 (Crime) (iMDB) 6.3 Cast: Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Remo Girone, Brendan Gleeson, Robert Glenister, Matthew Maher
unlabelledView post →Elle Fanning is a Superstar in the making. She should be branded a Thief for stealing everything she's in. At the age of 18, she upstaged Ben Affleck in his own movie (Live By Night). Just insanely talented:
unlabelledView post →From classic 40s film noir (Lost Weekend, They Live By Night, Blue Dahlia) to 60’s tv sci-fi (Outer Limits: I Robot!), his career stalled in 50's after refusing to testify before HUAC & subsequent blacklisting. He came back with Tony nom for Fiorello! (1960) & BAFTA nom for David and Lisa (1962). /2
unlabelledView post →Live by Night (2016) Review - Why This Ben Affleck Gangster Film Deserves More Credit - @nymynet #LiveByNight #MovieReview #NymyNet #BenAffleck #Gangster #Film nymynet.com/ben-afflecks...
unlabelledView post →Movie a Day Project 2025: Day 335 They Live by Night (Nicholas Ray, 1948) Starring: Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva, and Jay C. Flippen #filmsky
unlabelledView post →The (movie) Live By Night 4K (iTunes)(DE) €3.99 (Crime) (iMDB) 6.3 Cast: Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Remo Girone, Brendan Gleeson, Robert Glenister, Matthew Maher
unlabelledView post →Just heard this... "The rules we live by, we're lies... And they didn't apply to those who MADE them." Pretty profound, actually. From the movie "Live By Night"
unlabelledView post →Watched They Live by Night (1948) for the first time recently. Great film. Everything you want in a crime pic plus an unexpected dollop of hard-boiled romance. Great acting throughout, but Cathy O'Donnell as Keechie is particularly affecting. youtu.be/LS-jEuab_Hw?...
unlabelledView post →365 films in danger of being forgotten 1. Over 50 years old 2. Not on Sight & Sound's list of 250 best films 3. Not on "my 60 beloved films" 4. Not on my "1 film 100 best directors" 65/365 Nicholas Ray - They Live by Night (1948) #Filmsky #MovieSky #MovieChallenge #FilmChallenge
unlabelledView post →The (movie) Live by Night (4K) is available today on (iTunes)(UK) for £3.99 Cast: Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Remo Girone, Brendan Gleeson, Robert Glenister, Matthew Maher Genre: (Crime) Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/live_by_ni...
unlabelledView post →The Drop on Film 4, brilliant film from a fantastic short story by James Lehane (Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone, Shutter Island, Live by Night etc) Such an underrated movie. Tom Hardy is superb James Gandolfini (Tony Soprano) even better in his last screen role iirc and probably his best in a feature
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