Jurgen & Marcy's Independent Film Blog August 2006 Archive

Pretty Woman it's not. In Fernando León de Aranoa's Princesas, Caye and Zulema, two melancholic whores in Madrid, hustle for clients, look out for each other and talk dreamily of ... Read More

The star-studded indie DVD release of the week is Nicole Holofcener's drama Friends With Money--but whining Jennifer Aniston in a maid's uniform is less than appealling. Instead, we recommend several ... Read More

More than just a date movie, Bart Freundlich's New York comedy Trust the Man is instructive: guest reviewer Sarah Bardin watches Maggie Gyllenhaal and Billy Crudup cavort in bed and ... Read More

Take this job and shove it. And this job. And this job, too. Matt Dillon gives a wonderfully understated performance as Charles Bukowski's alter ego in Factotum, a deadpan literary ... Read More

Stolen identities and black market babies: two new critically acclaimed foreign films are out this week on DVD: Dominick Moll's outstanding thriller Lemming and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's L'Enfant, the ... Read More

Ryan Fleck's Half Nelson turns a genre upside down: the free-thinking inner-city junior high school teacher is also a crack addict. Ryan Gosling turns in a marvelous performance, as does ... Read More

Two of the best independent films of 2006 (so far) are already out on DVD. First-time filmmaker Rian Johnson's hard-boiled thriller Brick features a cast of baby-faced teens. Veteran director ... Read More

Robin Williams seems like an unlikely casting choice for the role of a grieving talk show host, but he pulls it off (almost) in Patrick Stetner's lean thriller The Night ... Read More

With a standing ovation and the biggest distribution deal in the history of the festival, Little Miss Sunshine was the talk of Sundance. Now Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris' debut ... Read More