Jurgen & Marcy's World / Independent Film Blog

It was a minor stroke of genius when director Andrew Leman of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society decided to film Lovecraft's influential 1925 horror story as a faux silent film. Fake scratches, handsome intertitles, a captivating score, and ... Read More

Okay, so he did say this while on the set of a new film, and he insists he wasn't "drunk" while talking to reporters, but living French film legend Gerard Depardieu has announced his retirement. I, for one, feel ... Read More

Following in the shoes of former indie queen Parker Posey, Chloe Sevigny wants out of the art house. The Oscar nominated star of "Boys Don't Cry" and the reviled "The ... Read More

After completing the Qatsi trilogy, director Godfrey Reggio, composer Philip Glass, and cinematographer Ron Fricke are collaborating again. So far, the official site for the new project, called "Savage ... Read More

What drives people to become suicide bombers? Hany Abu-Assad's drama about two Palestinian youths who strap explosives to their bodies is an eye-opening exploration of two perfectly aimable slackers who ... Read More

The Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences has announced the nominees for the 2005 Machinima Awards, a.k.a the Mackies. Machinima is real-time filmmaking inside virtual worlds borrowed from video games--a ... Read More

For people who enjoy serious sci-fi in the vein of "Solaris," Pennsylvania filmmaker John Krawlzik's first feature film "Ascension" is worth checking out. Shot for under $100,000, "Ascension" is a ... Read More

Films from a record 58 countries are in the running for this year's foreign-language Academy Award. One of the top contenders is Belgium's "The Child," which won the Palm d'Or at ... Read More

"The Wizard of Oz" is neither indie nor foreign, but the 3-disc collector's edition of the timeless classic is the most exciting new DVD release of the week. Also, two ... Read More

It all started with "Stranger Than Paradise." Jim Jarmusch's groundbreaking first film was shot in black and white. The pacing was slower than slow. The almost non-existent plot revolved around the aimless conversations of one bored guy with ... Read More

Claire Danes stars as Mirabelle Buttersfield, the lost and unhappy twenty-something shopgirl in Anand Tucker's adaptation of Steve Martin's novella. Danes sells gloves at Saks Fifth Avenue in Los Angeles, and she ... Read More

"Did you hear that no Jews died on 9/11?" This question, and the conspiracy theory behind it, propelled director Mark Levin ("Slam") to investigate the rise in contemporary anti-Semitism. He ... Read More

Lucile Hadzihalilovic's fairy-tale-like "Innocence" is a pedophile's dream come true. Set in the seeming paradise of a secluded boarding school, beatiful little girls parade accross the screen, dressed in white. ... Read More

"Good Night, and Good Luck," George Clooney's handsome and hard-hitting biopic on Edward R. Murrow's struggle against Senator Joe McCarthy, has been ruling the Indie Box Office for the last two weeks. Reason enough to ... Read More

MashMap is the slickest combination of movie times finder and mapping interface we've come across yet: type in your zip code or city, and get a Google Map of theaters ... Read More

Feel like dancing? Watch Marilyn Agrelo's "Mad Hot Ballroom." Want to scream in fear? James Wan's bloody "Saw" will certainly do the trick. Need your romantic comedy fix? Alice ... Read More

"The world is divided into two unequal camps... those who have never heard of Jan Svankmajer and those who happen upon his work and know that they have come face ... Read More

Let the Michelle Williams admiration start here. The young actress bravely donned a garbage bag and an English accent for the drama "Me Without You." She stole Jurgen's heart in ... Read More

Noah Baumbach's uncomfortably autobiographical film about his parents' divorce in 1980s Brooklyn will make you laugh and squirm in your seat. Jeff Daniels deserves an Oscar nomination as caustic Bernard ... Read More

With the second part of his US trilogy, Lars Von Trier returns to the story of the tragic martyr Grace. In "Manderlay," Dallas Bryce Howard replaces Nicole Kidman in the ... Read More

This week's DVD releases include Pawel Pawlikowski's mesmerizing "My Summer of Love" and Yvan Attal's "Happily Ever After," a disarming picture of a marriage on the rocks.

Jean-Luc Godard's portrait of "the children of Marx and Coca-Cola" begins with freewheeling New Wave fun and ends with broken hearts. Jean-Pierre Leaud is positively dreamy in the 1966 film, ... Read More

Steven Soderbergh likes to mix things up. After the weightless "Ocean's Twelve," he is back with an experimental film in which simple people tell a simple story with simple words. ... Read More

Philip Seymour Hoffman gives a masterful performance in Bennett Miller's seductive biopic about Truman Capote and the story behind his book "In Cold Blood." "Capote" screened at the New York ... Read More