Jurgen & Marcy's Independent Film Blog July 2007 Archive

Another master of cinema has died: Michelanglo Antonioni (Blow Up, L'Avventura) died last night at the age of 94. He won the Palme d'Or for Blow Up, starring ... Read More

Ingmar Bergman, one of the most influential film directors of the 20th century, died Monday at his home on the Swedish island of Faro, his sister Eva reported. He was ... Read More

Ulrich Mühe, star of the Oscar-winning German movie The Lives of Others, died of stomach cancer at the age of 54. Mühe received the Best Actor Award at the 2006 ... Read More

After transforming the bucolic English countryside into a site of horror with the nasty revenge tale Dead Man's Shoes, Shane Meadows turns to Maggie Thatcher's England with a skinhead coming-of-age ... Read More

Pick up a newspaper and chances are you'll see a headline which contains a quotation from President George W. Bush employing the term progress to describe the war in Iraq. ... Read More

Once a country’s greatest writer has been canonized, it’s only a matter of time before he gets a movie that conflates his life with his work in the style of ... Read More

Just in case you somehow managed to avoid the longest-running TV sitcom in American history, do not worry: The Simpsons Movie is careful to include everybody in the fun. In ... Read More

One of our favorite films of the year so far, Bong Joon-ho's horror satire The Host arrives on DVD in a two-disc collector's edition today. With unflappable confidence, Bong (Memories ... Read More

Legendary cinematographer László Kovács (Easy Rider, Paper Moon, Ghost Busters) died Saturday night at the age of 74. More at GreenCine and Premiere. At australian screen, the Australian Film Commission is ... Read More

Danny Boyle sends a group of astronauts - Cillian Murphy, Michelle Yeoh, and Rose Byrne among them - on a mission to deliver a giant nuke in order to restart ... Read More

The Film Society at Lincoln Center is gearing up to celebrate the marvelous career of Gerard Depardieu with a tribute called "Tough and Tender" from Aug 3-19.  Depardieu has appeared ... Read More

Recommended DVD picks of the week: a new director's cut of Factory Girl, the Edie Sedgewick biopic starring Sienna Miller, the charming French romantic comedy Avenue Montaigne and from Criterion, ... Read More

Kasi Lemmons' third feature film after Eve's Bayou and The Caveman's Valentine is an enormous success. Talk To Me takes the stale biopic formula and keeps the film steadily moving, ... Read More

The first surprise is that Colma: The Musical plays it straight. You might imagine a musical about teenagers in a suburb south of San Francisco in which the majority of ... Read More

The Internet Movie Database lists 48 adaptations of Macbeth, including classics by Orson Welles, Roman Polanski, and Akira Kurosawa, but Geoffrey Wright's contemporary gangster take on Shakespeare's Scottish play doesn’t ... Read More

The indefatigable Woody Allen wants to do for Barcelona what he did for Manhattan. Production has started on a new, still untitled film that will star Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz ... Read More

It's a very special version of hell: fill an office suite with qualified executives, lock them in, and have them duke it out for a top job. Request they fill ... Read More

A thriller about the horrors of parenthood, George Ratliff's Joshua takes its cues from the tradition of The Omen, Rosemary’s Baby, and Poltergeist. In a spacious apartment overlooking Central ... Read More

Ten years ago, Werner Herzog made a documentary called Little Dieter Needs to Fly, about a German-born U.S. Navy pilot who was shot down in Laos during the beginning stages ... Read More

Filmmaker Edward Yang has died of complications from colon cancer at the age of 59. Yang won best director at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000 for Yi Yi ... Read More