Jurgen & Marcy's Independent Film Blog June 2007 Archive

The level of pegidree is high: acclaimed European filmmaker Lajos Koltai (Fateless) directs a Michael Cunningham (The Hours) adaption of the Susan Minot's best-selling novel, featuring an ensemble cast that ... Read More

Sicko is Michael Moore's most mature work to date and almost certainly his best film. As Hillary Clinton found out the hard way, health care isn't a particularly sexy topic, ... Read More

Thirty-something New Yorker Nora Wilder (Parker Posey) has a terrific name and even better clothes, but she doesn't quite know how her life happened to her. Zoe Cassavetes's first feature ... Read More

Angelina Jolie plays Mariane Pearl in Michael Winterbottom’s docudrama about the kidnapping and murder of her husband, the journalist Daniel Pearl. After United 93 and several other pointless exercises in ... Read More

An indie comedy from New Zealand that reeks of the Sundance workshop where it was conceived by writer/director Taika Cohen — which is to say it features a road trip, ... Read More

Zombies used to equal horror. The flesh-eating, walking dead were invariably, revoltingly scary. Recently, however, the definition has begun to morph. Zombie films can be exercises in going mainstream (Sarah ... Read More

After winning the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes for The Man Without a Past, Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki is back with another understated film about the unfortunate losers at the ... Read More

Olivier Dahan's La Vie En Rose (La Môme), a portrait of Edith Piaf, France's most famous singer, features a bravura performance by the diminutive but impressively abrasive Marion Cotillard. La ... Read More

The second installment of the fantasy trilogy that famously out-grossed The Lord of the Rings in its native Russia, Day Watch stages a timeless war between good and evil in ... Read More

In 1959 Burt Pugach, a married man and corrupt lawyer, hired three men to throw acid into the beautiful face of his ex-girl friend Linda Riss. Sixteen years later, with ... Read More