Jurgen & Marcy's Independent Film Blog October 2006 Archive

Unrelentingly sad, excruciatingly painful, all for no valid reason, Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel is a movie to avoid at all costs. The talented and beautiful international cast includes Brad Pitt, ... Read More

Two new films opening this week rely on breaking taboos to draw viewers into theaters. In Gabriel Range's Death of a President, we are invited to imagine the assassination of ... Read More

Root for the man with the explosives: in Philip Noyce's new thriller/biopic, Derek Luke plays Patrick Chamusso, a South African refinery worker and family man who turns freedom fighter after ... Read More

There’s no doubt in my mind that Sacha Baron Cohen’s outrageous comedy is going to be huge. Borat had a Wednesday afternoon crowd of New York’s finest critics howling for ... Read More

The Gotham Awards, organized by the Independent Film Project, announced their nominations Monday. Thinkfilm's breathtakingly good Half Nelson leads the field, garnering noms for Best Picture, Breakthrough Director for ... Read More

Haven't you heard? There's been a revolution. Not long ago, Sofia Coppola reigned supreme, feted with a golden statuette for Lost in Translation. Now, she's feeling the torches and pitchforks ... Read More

Ali Selim's independent film Sweet Land won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2005 Hamptons International Film Festival and I know just what pleased that audience: Elizabeth ... Read More

With the New York Film Festival's final parties squarely behind us, we've dedicated ourselves to the small screen again and overhauled our online movies section. In addition to the list ... Read More

Yolande Moreau plays a performer with a unique stage show in the odd but touching romance When the Sea Rises, directed by Moreau and Gilles Porte. Wim Wallaert co-stars as ... Read More

We've uploaded video footage from Friday's Marie Antoinette press conference with Sofia Coppola, Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman and producer Ross Katz, conducted by the Film Society at Lincoln Center's Richard ... Read More

The press screenings at the 44th New York Film Festival came to a close yesterday with a repeat screening of Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette. (Public screenings continue until tomorrow.) We're ... Read More

Gael Garcia Bernal has a thing for his little sister, a vengeful twin carries a gun, and Michelle Williams radiates joy: three independent films that should not be missed are ... Read More

Coming soon to your video iPod: starting on November 9, filmmaker and Anthology Film Archives founder Jonas Mekas will be releasing 365 short films, one a day, designed specifically for ... Read More

Three weeks into the New York Film Festival, it's easy to feel a little like Alex from A Clockwork Orange--eyes held open by metal clamps and force-fed movies past the ... Read More

Maggie Gyllenhaal can take a great big sigh of relief: no more talk show and red carpet appearances while profoundly pregnant. The actress, who appeared in four films this summer ... Read More

Imagine Woody Allen with gay threesomes and and remote-controlled egg vibrators: with his groundbreaking second film, John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) recognizes hardcore sex as the logical ... Read More

How do you review someone else’s bad dream? This Sunday morning at the New York Film Festival, insomniacs and hardcore cinephiles assembled to see David Lynch’s first movie since Mulholland ... Read More