#jim thompson

[thehopefulquotes]

There are things that need to be forgotten if you want to keep on living.

Jim Thompson

[perfectfeelings]

There are things that need to be forgotten if you want to keep on living.

Jim Thompson

[thoughtkick]

There are things that need to be forgotten if you want to keep on living.

Jim Thompson

[thezeroquotes]

There are things that need to be forgotten if you want to keep on living.

Jim Thompson

[perfeqt]

There are things that need to be forgotten if you want to keep on living.

Jim Thompson

[stay-close]

There are things that need to be forgotten if you want to keep on living.

Jim Thompson

[quotemadness]

There are things that need to be forgotten if you want to keep on living.

Jim Thompson

[resqectable]

There are things that need to be forgotten if you want to keep on living.

Jim Thompson

[quotefeeling]

There are things that need to be forgotten if you want to keep on living.

Jim Thompson

[perfectquote]

There are things that need to be forgotten if you want to keep on living.

Jim Thompson

[cadillacjohnf1]

cadillacjohnf1's book club recommendations (because I can)

[thehopefulquotes]

There are things that need to be forgotten if you want to keep on living.

Jim Thompson

[surqrised]

There are things that need to be forgotten if you want to keep on living.

Jim Thompson

[filmnoirfoundation]

Acclaimed actress Annette Bening joined Eddie Muller after a screening of "The Grifters" (1990) at NOIR CITY: Hollywood 2025 to talk about how her film career began, her casting in "The Grifters", writers Jim Thompson and Donald Westlake, director Stephen Frears, as well as Gloria Grahame and Bening's 2017 film "Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool".

[perfeqt]

There are things that need to be forgotten if you want to keep on living.

Jim Thompson

[theoscarsproject]

The Grifters (1990). A small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.

The neo-noir resurgence of the early '90s means so much to me! That's not to say that this is a particularly good one - it's not really - but it is a pretty fun way to spend a couple of hours. Annette Bening is on fire as a sexxed up conwoman, and Anjelica Huston is, as always, everything. It's a shame the script isn't better, or the direction that much tighter, because there really is a better movie in here, but the kind-of-mid one is still worth the watch. 7/10.