#the hole
yes this is what took my time for the past few weeks XD
Photo: Alexander Nazaryan, 2009
“Although most New Yorkers haven’t been there, the Hole hides in plain sight. Many pass it on the way to John F Kennedy International Airport, on a bleak road above which jets wheeze in on their final descent toward the runways along Jamaica Bay. Behind a tatty curtain of trees and weeds, there is a strange depression in the land, as if a sinkhole had opened here on the desultory border between Brooklyn and Queens. It looks less like a New York neighbourhood than an Arkansas village, only with housing projects on the horizon instead of the Ozark Mountains. Welcome to the Hole.”
“Every city has a shadow city. Paris has the catacombs. Hong Kong had the Kowloon Walled City. New York has the Hole. Places like these matter because they declare that the past is not fully known and the future may well turn out to be a shitshow”
New York’s darkest secret: The Hole is a Mafia graveyard that few people venture into
Alexander Nazaryan, The Independent, 14 August 2015
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Le Trou (The Hole)
1960. Crime
By Jacques Becker
Starring: Michel Constantin, Marc Michel, Jean Keraudy, Philippe Leroy, Raymond Meunier, Jean-Paul Coquelin, André Bervil, Eddy Rasimi, Gérard Hernandez, Dominique Zardi, Paul Préboist, Catherine Spaak
Country: France
Language: French
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Nice legs. The Hole has that annoying must-have-man-at-any-cost “plot” and the police are depicted as less than clever, but the actors are charming. I love seeing Laurence play such a bouncy and carefree (well, at least until things go wrong) character for a change. And I love that this film shows more male than female nudity. I mean, how often does that happen?
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Geoff:What are you having then?
Mike: I’m not really hungry.
Geoff:You’ve got to have something eventually.
Food/eating = sex? Anyway, Geoff’s jealous because Mike wants to eat Liz’s sausages rather than the salty pasta he’s cooking. Erm… I think I’ll let that one simmer.
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Mike:You’re going in there?
Geoff:Of course I’m going in there. See you inside.
Everything is buttsex subtext. At least according to Sherlock meta.
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Don’t know why, but I thought I wouldn’t like pre-Lewis Laurence.
I was wrong.
Yum yum, as Cam would say.
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