Jurgen & Marcy's Independent Film Blog September 2005 Archive

George Clooney's sophomore film opened the 43rd New York Film Festival on Friday. In Clooney's assured hands, the real-life story of how CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow stood up to ... Read More

Until October 9, the Film Society of Lincoln Center is presenting the 43rd New York Film Festival with a selection of films by some of the world's most exciting directors. ... Read More

Julian Fellowes' directorial debut about the crumbling marriage of an upper crust English couple packs suprising punch. Emily Watson, Ruperett Evert, and Tom Wilkinson give uniformly superb perfomances in this ... Read More

One of the reasons we love foreign film is the excitement of discovering a kind of movie we've never seen before. But not everything international is automatically inventive, and subtitles ... Read More

Filmmaker Pearl Gluck traveled to Hungary to make a documentary about Hasidic culture and Jewish folklore. Instead, she became her own subject, telling a personal, illuminating tale of self-discovery. And ... Read More

One of the year's best films has just made its way to DVD. Don't miss German filmmaker Fatih Akin's powerful drama "Head-On." Other new DVDs include the Oscar-nominated World War ... Read More

A sexy French summer comedy sounds like a good enough idea, but Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau's "Crustacés et coquillages" simply doesn't cut it, not even as a pleasant diversion. ... Read More

Ang Lee's homosexual love story between two cowboys (Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger) won the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. The rest of the winners.

This week's recommended new DVDs include Thai director Ki-duk Kim's mesmerizing film "3-Iron" and the release of the essential box set "Garbo: The Signature Collection."

Jürgen on the box office summer slump: "Hollywood needs to find the next Francis Ford Coppola and surprise us for a change." Read the article.