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.

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…

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

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.