August 16, 2011
During the Vietnam war this faction of the SDS student organization radicalized and went underground for a period of ten years, during which it set off bombs in different government offices while being careful not to make any victims. Interesting piece on group-dynamics and great view back into the seventies.
August 8, 2011
The Myth of the American Sleepover [2011] David Robert Mitchell / Lazy, slow, bored suburban teenagers hang around. Not impressed.
Banshee [2006] Kari Skogland / Cars, girls and a psychopath
Sweet Karma [2009] Andrew Thomas Hunt / Revenge set in sex trade
Neds [2010] Peter Mullan / Gritty ’70s Glasgow
Les Amours Imaginaires [2010] Xavier Dolan / French Canadian drivle from same director who made J’ai tué ma mère; didn’t like that one, this one is even worse.
August 7, 2011
A lot to like here, all the right ingredients, however the sum of all doesn’t bring it into Close encounters, ET territory. I’m not sure why, but maybe it’s because of it’s obvious effort to re-create this type of movie. This brings us back to the question why Close encounters was so engaging; was it because it didn’t have any predecessor? It’s a good view, super8, although I seem to get tired of all these well sewn-up plot lines; the alien returns home, kids reconnect with their parents, hardly any spoilers here…
July 21, 2011
I saw the Devil [2010] Ji-woon Kim / Excellent bloody revenge movie
A Serbian Film [2011] Srdjan Spasojevic / Gritty horror snuff porn kitsch
The kids are all right [2010] Lisa Cholodenko / The film is all right
Senna [2010] Asif Kapadia / Beautiful old images
Zivot i smrt porno bande [2009] Mladen Djordjevic / Gore and beyond
Made in Serbia [2005] Mladen Djordjevic / Finished the Serbian trilogy
July 21, 2011
July 17, 2011
April 12, 2010
Xavier van Wersch: excellent
Fennesz: way too loud! My ears were bleeding.. + forgot a bass-line
Loops Haunt fat beats!
Bola a bit too mellowed out, fitting for the beautifull former synagoge
October 24, 2009
Oh..oh, this one requires at least a second viewing before I can coherently put my thoughts to paper. WATCH IT!
July 28, 2008
July 26, 2008
Cardboard car chase movie, not nearly as good as ‘Two-Lane Blacktop’. The three leads, including a cruising Peter Fonda, are too clean-cut to pass as 7-11 robbing, nascar-wanna be’s plus accompanying flusy. I refused to buy in to some existential, deeper meaning; it’s not there. I just sat back and enjoyed the cars and the engine noises.
