Jurgen & Marcy's Independent Film Blog February 2004 Archive

Sofia Coppola's "Lost In Translation" takes the top prizes, Charlize Theron wins Best Actress, Shohreh Aghdashloo gets the Best Supporting Actress -- and no, it's not the Oscars. The ... Read More

Comedy and history lesson rolled into one, the biggest hit from Germany since "Run, Lola, Run" is a thoughtful and hilarious film about the effects of Reunification on one East ... Read More

The always remarkable Sarah Polley stars in this week's top DVD pick "My Life Without Me" as a wife and mother dying of cancer. Rather than grieving the old-fashioned way, ... Read More

Only six days left before Billy Crystal picks up the microphone once again to hand out golden statuettes at the 76th Academy Awards! We take a closer look at foreign ... Read More

A well-meaning comedy set in Norway in the 50s, "Kitchen Stories" tells the droll tale of two lonely men brought together by an absurd study. The film, directed by Bent ... Read More

In Jean-Claude Brisseau's "Secret Things," two aimless women decide to move on up the social ladder by using their bodies. The ensuing comedy of office manners culminates in a quasi-philosophical ... Read More

Michelangelo Antonioni's Swinging Sixties classic "Blow-Up" moves into the digital age this week, along with Bob Dylan's "Masked and Anonymous," a film that's much better than most critics would have ... Read More

The first feature film made in Afghanistan since the rise of the Taliban tells the uncompromising story of a desperate young girl trying to survive by posing as a boy. ... Read More

The final installment of Lucas Belvaux's "Trilogy" is a touching melodrama about a marriage between a junkie and a crooked cop coming apart while a mysterious terrorist wreaks havoc in ... Read More

For the first time in 18 years, a German film took home the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival: earlier today, the jury, presided over by Frances McDormand, awarded ... Read More

Looking for a date movie this Valentine's weekend? Not to worry: the theaters are practically throbbing with love, lust, and romance. After a strong opening at the indie box office, ... Read More

Two long-awaited favorites are finally being released on DVD this week: Lucas Moodyson's lovely and hilarious look at a Swedish hippie commune "Together" and Canadian Patricia Rocezma's lesbian classic "I've ... Read More

The Criterion Collection's two-disc DVD of Jean Renoir's "The Rules of the Game" does the celebrated 1939 film justice with lavish bonus materials that examine its troubled history, controversial reception, ... Read More

If the sexy innocence of "The Dreamers" doesn't turn you on and the antics of "The Amazing Couple" leave you cold, we've got just the film for you: Andrei Zvyagintsev's ... Read More

After the menacing opening installment "On The Run," the second part of Lucas Belvaux's "Trilogy" is a perfect farce--a charming and side-splittingly funny comedy of errors starring Ornella Muti and ... Read More

Self-discovery times three equals NC-17: Bernardo Bertolucci's sumptuous tale of an American who finds himself infatuated with a couple of French twins during the spring of 1968 is ripe with ... Read More

Sofia Coppola's "Lost In Translation" is a positively dreamy film, and with its release on DVD, you can lost again and again. Also out this week: the acclaimed Harvey-mentary "American ... Read More

Mischievously released in the week before Sundance, Peter Biskind's muckraking report about "Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film" has already caused quite a stir. Filmmakers and industry insiders ... Read More

Test your arcane cinema knowledge (and google-fu) with Michael Atkinson's devilishly difficult Village Voice Movie Trivia Quiz 2004. Among the questions: in which movie does Catherine Deneuve explore a cave ... Read More