Jurgen & Marcy's Independent Film Blog February 2007 Archive

Every year, fewer and fewer foreign film get screened in the U.S. This sad state of affairs makes the 12th annual Rendez-Vous with French Cinema a special treat -- if ... Read More

Bob Dylan, manipulative writers, and girl's basketball: it's another week of eclectic DVD picks. Don't miss the special features-filled rerelease of D.A. Pennebaker's groundbreaking documentary Don't Look Back, Marc ... Read More

Didn't get anywhere near an Oscar: Evan Rachel Wood and Ed Norton in Down in the Valley. (ThinkFilm) The German wiretapping drama The Lives of Others won Best Foreign Film ... Read More

Tom Vaughan's debut film Starter for Ten is earnest and sometimes charming, occasionally funny, but for the most part, unforgivably bland. James McAvoy (The Last King of Scotland, The Chronicles ... Read More

Despite seven Academy Award nominations, we cannot in good faith recommend Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel. However, the film comes out on DVD today, and now you know. Also: Sofia Coppola's ... Read More

Seven years ago, at the tender age of twenty-one, Christina Ricci starred in the art house film The Man Who Cried. She had re-teamed with actor and friend Johnny Depp ... Read More

Tuya's Wedding, a film about a Mongolian shepherd directed by Chinese filmmaker Wang Quan'an, won the Berlin Film Festival's top award on Saturday. The film's win came as a surprise. ... Read More

Two 18-year-old girls -- reluctant partners -- fulfill their compulsory military service patrolling the streets of Jerusalem in Vidi Bilu and Dalia Hager's Close to Home. Sarah Bardin reviews this ... Read More

According to the greeting card, negligee, and flower industries, today's the day for romance. We think today's as good a day as any for a quality love story--although we prefer ... Read More

It's an amazing week for DVD releases and we are triumphantly back with recommendations. Two harrowing and thoughtful American independent films make their way to DVD: the Oscar-nominated Half Nelson, ... Read More

From 1950 until the Wall came down, the East German Ministry for State Security--cutesified to "Stasi"--spied on suspected enemies of socialism. Through an extensive web of informants, the Stasi ... Read More