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Jurgen & Marcy's Independent Film Blog March 2004 Archive

By Jurgen Fauth & Marcy Dermansky, About.com Guides to Independent Film

Crime and Punishment: New DVD Releases

Tuesday March 30, 2004
Hold on to your real estate, your daughters, and your organs: this week's best new world and independent DVDs prominently feature thieves, poachers, cheats, and kleptomaniacs. Jennifer Connelly loses her ... Read More

Review: Dogville

Friday March 26, 2004
Far and away the best film showing at last year's New York Film Festival, Lars Von Trier's controversial masterpiece "Dogville" finally opens nationwide. Nicole Kidman leads the illustrious cast including ... Read More

Review: Bon Voyage

Saturday March 20, 2004
Spies, crooks, Nazis, divas, politicians and nuclear scientists circle one another in Jean-Paul Rappeneau's romantic wartime comedy "Bon Voyage." Isabelle Adjani, Gerard Depardieu and Virginie Ledoyen lead the star-studded ensemble ... Read More

Review: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Wednesday March 17, 2004
Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, and Kirsten Dunst enter screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's latest metaphysical mystery in Michael Gondry's twisted "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." Hearts are broken, memories are wiped, ... Read More

Down-On-Their-Luck Irish: New DVD Releases

Tuesday March 16, 2004
Just in time for St. Patrick's day, "Veronica Guerin" and "The Commitments" hit DVD. If Cate Blanchett's muckraking journalist and Alan Parker's ragtag band of lovable Irish Soul musicians don't ... Read More

Review: Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself

Monday March 15, 2004
In Lone Scherfig's second film, a suicidal Scot and his brother run a book store, fall in love, and try to stay alive. As in "Italian for Beginners," Scherfig deftly ... Read More

Profile: Sarah Polley

Monday March 15, 2004
From the queen of independent tragedy ("The Sweet Hereafter") to Hollywood zombie killer: Sarah Polley tries on a new genre in "Dawn Of The Dead."

Review: Goodbye, Lenin!

Monday March 15, 2004
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

Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2004

Friday March 12, 2004
Now in its ninth year, the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Rendez-Vous with French Cinema begins today. Until March 21, fifteen new films will delight Francophiles at the Walter Reade ... Read More

New DVD Releases

Wednesday March 10, 2004
The troubles of the working class, animals killed for sport, zombies and the Holocaust: it's a dark week for DVD releases when a Mike Leigh box set, Delphine Gleize's "Carnage," ... Read More

Review: The Reckoning

Monday March 8, 2004
Paul Bettany and Willem Dafoe step in the medieval footsteps of Sean Connery in this 14th-century murder mystery about a troupe of travelling actors who confront a leering French villian. ... Read More

DVD Review: Wisconsin Death Trip

Saturday March 6, 2004
Be prepared for a strange cinematic experience. Featuring a soundtrack that varies from Debussy to DJ Shadow, narration by Ian Holm, and portraits of serial window breakers and gun ... Read More

Review: Confessions of a Burning Man

Tuesday March 2, 2004
Every year, 30,000 people congregate in Nevada's Black Rock Desert to create art, party down, find themselves, and set fire to a gigantic human effigy. Last year, Unesu Lee and ... Read More

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