This is amazing. You can have a picture or song that takes up five megabytes now. My first Windows PC (1992) only had four megabytes of memory. It was top of the line, too.
When I registered for college courses (1971-75), they used punch cards to enroll you in a class. If there were, for example, 20 slots in a class, there would be 20 punch cards in a bin and they would give you one if there were cards left. When you were done, they processed your little stack of cards.
These are brutal dark Hong Kong action films directed by Soi Cheung that tale place in a very violent world where most people meet a bad end.The cops and criminals are both violent and will do whatever it takes to get what they want.
I thought Limbo looked great in black and white. Dog Bite Dog is in color but it’s very dark and may have worked better in black and white. They are not profound and the plots are not deep but the visual world they create is great. Much ofLimbo takes place in trash dumps.
I also watched Motorway which deals with high speed car chases. It’s not as good as the other two but worth a look.
They divert funds from public education and undermine it (which I think is a GOP goal).
All four have now been issued on Blu-ray since Saigon was released this year. The films are:
This Gun for Hire (1942) is based on a Graham Greene novel.
The Glass Key (1942) is based on a Dashiell Hammett novel
The Blue Dahlia (1946) has a script by Raymond Chandler
Saigon (1948)
They are all worth seeing. I would classify them all as crime films with This Gun for Hire as the best and Saigon (with a very unfocused plot) as the weakest.
This Gun for Hire, The Glass Key, and The Blue Dahlia are currently on DVD as part of a collection: Film Noir 10-Movie Spotlight Collection
The first three are on Blu-ray from Shout Factory; Saigon is on Blu-ray ffrom Kino Lorber
I just watched China (1943) which stars Ladd and Loretta Young. It’s worth seeing.
Trump lies about oil like he usually does.
I think Republicans want Social Security to do badly so they can push to privatize it which I oppose.
from the article:
While a Senate proposal calls for increased funding for the agency for the fiscal year starting in October, a House version instead calls for cutting the agency’s funding.
The House is run by the GOP and the Senate is run by Democrats.
There is nothing too low for Trump to stoop to. The 2024 election will be a fiasco and wind up in many court cases.
Is a news conference full of lies really better than no conference at all?
Sad! 