Jurgen & Marcy's Independent Film Blog April 2007 Archive

Emmanuel Bourdieu's Poison Friends tells the story of a brilliant and manipulative literature student who runs amuck--while causing his trusted friends harm. The screenplay and direction are is as pompous ... Read More

Six years running, Robert DeNiro and Jane Rosenthal's ambitious plan to revitalize lower Manhattan is going strong with over 160 films showing over the next week and a half. The ... Read More

Aspiring writer Carter Webb (Adam Brody of The O.C.) flees L.A. for his grandmother’s house in suburban Michigan in Jonathan Kasdan’s directorial debut In the Land of Women. Carter plans ... Read More

Bollywood superstars Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan celebrated their highly anticipated wedding on Friday. The former Miss World and the son of Indian screen legends Amitabh and Jaya Bachchan held ... Read More

The films of Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul occupy a fertile space between narrative and art object, where simple interactions accumulate and gain weight in a web of meaning that is ... Read More

Twenty-two films will compete for the Palme d'Or award at this year's Cannes Film Festival, to be held May 16-27. Highlights include the film adaptation of Marjane Satrapi's ... Read More

The team behind Shaun of the Dead is back with more amusing silliness. After demolishing the zombie genre, Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost are taking aim at the ... Read More

A deranged derivative of a Japanese softporn genre known as "pink film," The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai concerns the surreal adventures of a role-playing prostitute (Kuroda Emi.) When ... Read More

Once again, a few items from around the Web that caught our attention. The Queen for the masses. We adored everything about Stephen Frear's movie, from Helen Mirren's stellar performance to ... Read More

Mike White, the writer of Chuck and Buck, The Good Girl and School of Rock, has directed his first movie, a comedy about a contemporary archetype: the middle-aged woman in ... Read More

Andrea Arnold's debut Red Road, a stark thriller set in a Glasgow housing project, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival 2006. Kate Dickie, Natalie Press, and ... Read More

Pedro Almodovar's Volver, out now on DVD, is a joy to behold. Penelope Cruz gives the performance of her career as Raimunda, an embittered woman with a secret. Also Justin ... Read More

Jake Kasdan's satire The TV Set wants to give an insider's view of what happens behind the scenes of a television pilot. Problem is, he is telling us nothing new. ... Read More

Some choice bits that have been making the rounds of the film blogosphere this week: Leaked! The screenplay for Wes Anderson's upcoming Darjeeling Limited, written by Anderson, Jason Schwartzman, and Roman ... Read More

The trailer for Angel, the English-language debut by French filmmaker Francois Ozon (Swimming Pool), has been posted on Ozon's official website. Angel, which played at this year's Berlin Film Festival ... Read More

When the director of Showgirls, Basic Instinct, and Robocop takes on a story that begins like The Diary of Anne Frank, you can bet good money that the heroine is ... Read More