Jurgen & Marcy's World / Independent Film Blog

Cristian Mungiu's 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, a harrowing Romanian film about back-alley abortion and despair in the communist era, won the Cannes Film Festival's top award, the ... Read More

Luc Besson returns to Paris with a little movie that begins as playful comedy about a crook (Jamel Debbouze) who meets a beautiful woman (Rie Rasmussen) — and ends as ... Read More

They directed the most exciting films of 2006: Guillermo del Toro's dark, mesmerizing fairy tale Pan's Labyrinth, Alfonso Cuaron's thrilling dystopian drama Children of Men, and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's ... Read More

Anime director Satoshi Kon (Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress) lacks the preternatural grace of Hayao Miyazaki and the mind-bending concepts of Mamoru Oshii, and Paprika, his excursion into sci-fi, is shockingly ... Read More

Winterbottom to Direct Thriller Michael Winterbottom's films leap across genres. In just the last three years, he's directed a tongue-in-cheek adaption of the unadaptable novel Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull ... Read More

A busker and an immigrant mother meet in the streets of Dublin in this wonderfully unpretentious musical from director John Carney. Once, which received standing ovations and the Audience Award ... Read More

The Wendell Baker Story, written by Luke Wilson and co-directed by Luke and his brother Andrew Wilson, grafts a number of borderline absurd conceits onto a goofy tale about a ... Read More

Shaun of the Dead meets Saw in Christopher Smith's gory comedy about a company's team-building weekend gone awry. How do you play paintball when there are Eastern European ninjas with ... Read More

This year marks the illustrious Cannes Film Festival's sixtieth anniversary. The eleven-day festival kicks off with Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights, an English language film starring Jude Law and ... Read More

Guillermo del Toro's Oscar-winning Pan's Labyrinth is a film to be watched over and over again. That need can now be induldged: the grim fairy tale is available on DVD ... Read More

Photo: The Guardian Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty first made headlines after appearing on the British reality TV series "Celebrity Big Brother." Shetty gracefully endured the racist taunts of a fellow cast ... Read More

This twee Belgian comedy tells an absurd tale about an ordinary wife, mother, and manager of a fast food joint whose life if forever changed after she gets locked overnight ... Read More

In her first feature film, Julia Loktev offers a harrowing portrait of a female suicide bomber headed for Times Square. Unlike Hany Abu-Assad's Paradise Now, which followed two Palestinian "suiciders" ... Read More

Two Claude Chabrol movies arrive on DVD this week: one old, one new. Isabelle Huppert stars in both, and watching this compelling French actress' range is quite a treat. Comedy ... Read More

Grant (Gordon Pinsent) and Fiona (Julie Christie) have been married for almost fifty years. They live together in a secluded wood cabin in a Canadian winter wonderland. In the opening ... Read More

It sounds like a connoisseur's delight: two hours of short films celebrating the most romantic city in the world, directed by an impressive roster of international auteurs and starring a ... Read More

Keri Russell plays an unhappily pregnant waitress who finds joy in baking pies in Adrienne Shelly's final film. Waitress was completed only days before Shelly was tragically and senselessly murdered. ... Read More