Reviews
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
love it ... and see some parallels to donnie darko
well, Butterfly Effect is more dense (as the dansk comment says: like a poem no word without a bunch of meaning), but the blackouts, the change of the presence by time traveling into ones own past ... I think butterfly effect and Donnie Darko somehow are two of a kind. While following the downward spiral Donnie takes the opportunity to learn about the metaphysics of time travel and finally loops only one time to the one and only possible thing with fatal results for himself but lots of benefits for his mates). Evan takes a different way of learning about it: every loop he takes with its fatal consequences in the presence adds up to the one clue how to solve it (looks a little bit like Phil Connors in Groundhog Day - what do you think?
Radio On (1979)
visible traces after 25 years
came across this database entry by accident. saw the movie 25 years ago and still can find its traces in my memory - amongst these the strongest when Robert and a hitchhiker drive along a forest of power line pylons and find them awful. Robert says something like "years from now when only a few of them are left we might say they're beautiful" (sorry, a 25 year old memory is not the best base for correct quoting) Christopher Petits influences of the early Wim Wenders road movies can be traced down best in " I'm Laufe der Zeit (Kings of the Road) " from 1976 - its in b/ w as well. But to me there is as well a link to Jarmush's " Stranger than Paradise " from 1984 (more acting and dialogs but the same slow glide thru scenic black& white landscapes)