Jurgen & Marcy's World / Independent Film Blog

Oscar season is always a little painful for us over here at World/Independent Film. Year after year, the films we love most don't get the attention of the box office ... Read More

Gavin Hood's Oscar-nominated gangster drama Tsotsi tells the story of a hard-boiled shantytown thug whose heart begins to melt when he accidentally kidnaps a baby during a carjacking gone awry. ... Read More

Unknown White Male tells the story of Doug Bruce, a young man who found himself on the train to Coney Island one day without the slightest idea how he got ... Read More

The Golden Bear, the top prize awarded at the Berlin Film Festival, went to the low budget Bosnian film "Grbavica." Director Jasmila Zbanic's debut film about a single mother and ... Read More

Carlos Reygadas's sophomore film offers an audacious style, amateur actors performing real on-screen sex, and a melodramatic plot that doesn't add up. "Battle in Heaven" opens today. Read Jürgen's review. ... Read More

French actress Eva Green made quite impression with her debut performance in Bernardo Bertolucci's erotic coming-of-age drama "The Dreamers." It wasn't just that she was insanely gorgeous. (She was.) The ... Read More

Nominated for an Acamedy Award for Best Foreign Film, Marc Rothemund's "Sophie Scholl: The Final Days," about the young German resistance heroine, is a traditional and competently made film; Julia ... Read More

Michael Winterbottom continues to blow us away. Every new film adopts a wildly different genre, offers a profoundly different look at the human condition through the filmmaker's lens. "Tristram Shandy," ... Read More

It's hard to say why John Madden's "Proof" was overlooked last year--Gwyneth Paltrow backlash, contempt for theater adaptations, or maybe it was the three-hour-long remake of "King Kong." No matter, ... Read More

We adore a good love story, a film so romantic that the conclusion will make you gasp and bring tears to your eyes. Our top indie romances include Richard Linklater's ... Read More

Neither Neil Young nor Jonathan Demme need much of an introduction--from Crazy Horse to Hannibal Lecter, they've both been around for long enough, and with Young's "Year of the Horse" ... Read More

Murder, rape, drugs... and soccer: the 19 movies set to show in competition at the 56th Berlin International Film Festival promise a dose of edgy reality--plus a special focus on ... Read More

Get swept away by Marco Tullio Giordana's remarkably moving "The Best of Youth," out this week on DVD. Don't let the six hour play time dissuade you--that's what the pause ... Read More

Snoop Dogg and Dylan McDermott star as competing writers in Danny Green's earnest adaptation of a Bernard Malumud novel. The men fight about fiction and racial stereotypes until a pretty ... Read More

Wong Kar-Wai, esteemed director of "2046," "Eros," and "In the Mood for Love," is planning a film about Hurricane Katrina. While I can't quite picture Wong's lush and dreamy trademark ... Read More

Need a date movie for Valentine's Day? Mike Barker's very handsome adaptation of Oscar Wilde's "Lady Windermere's Fan" would do splendidly. Wilde provides the quips, Helen Hunt the acting chops, ... Read More

Anupam Kher, a character actor who has appeared in more than 200 Bollywood films, has been cast to play a midget in "Jaaneman." Kher, however, is not a short man; ... Read More