Jurgen & Marcy's Independent Film Blog April 2006 Archive

Deepa Metha's Water, the third part of the acclaimed director's trilogy, is a beautifully filmed, deeply moving tale about the abusive treatment of widows in Colonial India. The subject is ... Read More

Feel overwhelmed? We do. No fewer than 274 films are scheduled to screen at the 5th annual Tribeca Film Festival, along with red carpet premieres, celebrity-filled panels, and one family-oriented ... Read More

Abbie Cornish was twenty-one when she took on the role of sixteen year old Heidi in Cate Shortland's coming of age drama Somersault. Often, she seems even younger. Filmed in ... Read More

The line-up has been announced for the 59th Festival de Cannes. It's pretty exciting stuff; many of our favorite contemporary filmmakers are screening new films: Aki Kaurismaki, Pedro Almodovar, Lucas ... Read More

Angelina Maccarone's Unveiled, a gripping drama about an Iranian lesbian seeking refuge in Germany, is being released this week by Wolfe Video. Also, the surprise French hit Games of Love ... Read More

Gretchen Mol gives an incandescent performance in Mary Harron's The Notorious Bettie Page. If you could hand out an Oscar for radiating joy while clad in knee-high, spiky leather boots ... Read More

Early in their courtship, Peter Saarsgard and Maggie Gyllenhaal did a little show and tell. Saarsgard showed Gyllenhaal his unrated flop The Center of the World; he stars as an ... Read More

This week's new DVDs offer haunted children and grisly horror--Yuichi Sato's Pray from Japan and Greg McLean's tale of the Australian outback, Wolf Creek. Also, bride of Kong Naomi Watts ... Read More

Thanks to the magic of podcasting, you can now stay up to date with world and independent film on your commute, while you work out--in fact, any time at all. ... Read More

Snarky, petty, self-indulgent, unappealing: those are some of the words I would use to describe the folks in Nicole Holofcener's new drama Friends With Money. The wonderful female cast--Jennifer Aniston, ... Read More

This week's new DVD releases take on a wide range of topics: Ang Lee offers a tragic love story in Brokeback Mountain, Leni Riefenstahl documents the rise of the Nazi ... Read More