Independent Film November 2006 Archive

Go ahead and try getting your film into Sundance--just try. This year, there were 1,852 domestic and 1,435 international submissions. Only 122 feature films made the cut: from Nick Broomfield's ... Read More

Director Brad Silbering makes a valiant attempt to pare down: Morgan Freeman and Latina beauty Paz Vega star in this breezy but highly implausable comedy about a major movie star ... Read More

Don Cheadle and Felicity Huffman announced the nominees for the 2007 Independent Spirit Awards. The big winners are the insanely popular Sundance hit Little Miss Sunshine and the unexpectedly moving ... Read More

Last June, Jürgen's review mash-up Superman Returns vs. The Road to Guantanamo resulted in an unprecedented storm of hate mail. Clearly, fans of the Man of Steel didn't want to ... Read More

The award-winning documentary The Corporation, a powerful and wide-ranging investigation into the impact of corporatism on contemporary life, is available for legal download via BitTorrent filesharing software. Even though the ... Read More

Koyaanisqatsi without Philip Glass and more butchery: in Our Daily Bread, opening today at New York's Anthology Film Archives, Nikolaus Geyrhalter observes the industrialized production of food, from cucumbers and ... Read More

Beloved French actor Philippe Noiret, best known for his roles as Pablo Neruda in Il Postino and the kindly projectionist in Cinema Paradiso, died of cancer on Thursday. During his ... Read More

Thanksgiving is about more than turkey and football: it's a complicated celebration of the American family gathered around a table. Here are our top picks of the best Thanksgiving films.

Director Robert Altman, 81, died Monday night in Los Angeles. The master of the ensemble film, Altman was nominated for Best Director Oscars five times before he won the Academy's ... Read More

This week on DVD: Al Gore's must-see climate change presentation, the gayest comedy of the year, a healthy dose of South Korean revenge, Scarlett Johansson's funny side and a Kieslowski ... Read More

After dog shows, amateur theater, and the folk music scene, Christoper Guest and gang turn their sights on Hollywood. In their latest ensemble comedy, Catherine O'Hara plays a desperate, aging ... Read More

Everybody's wondering whether or not Daniel Craig makes a good James Bond, but of course he'll do nicely. The truth is, the role of 007 doesn't really take much more ... Read More

New and recommended DVDs this week: the Academy-Award-nominated resistance drama Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, Michael Apted's serial documentary 49 UP, the conjoined twin rock flick Brothers of the Head, ... Read More

Joey Lauren Adam's independent film Come Early Morning gives encouraging glimpses of the Ashley Judd performance Marcy has been waiting for patiently since the actresses' luminous 1993 debut in Ruby ... Read More

Often, too many times, Hollywood gets the idea to remake a popular foreign film to bring some wonder to the masses. Forgive the pun, but the magic of the original ... Read More

You've got to admire filmmakers who takes chances. The new biopic Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus doesn't focus on real events in the life of the infamous photographer. ... Read More

David Lynch isn't just self-distributing his new film INLAND EMPIRE--it looks like he's marketing the three-hour freakout all by himself, too. Lynch took to a streetcorner in Hollywood yesterday with ... Read More

Icy-cold concert pianists, hard-as-rock drug dealers, and intellectual crossword puzzlers are the subjects of our three favorite DVD releases of the week. Koch Lorber has rereleased French romance Un Couer ... Read More

Spanish master Pedro Almodovar reminds us again of his potency as a filmmaker with the sprawling, marvelous melodrama Volver, an engrossing tale--funny and tragic and even surreal--of three generations of ... Read More

Actress Adrienne Shelly was found dead in her office Wednesday night by her husband, her agent reported. According to Newsday, police have not announced the cause of her death, still ... Read More