Jurgen & Marcy's World / Independent Film Blog

Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Ang Lee's Lust, Caution is a gorgeous film, sweeping you away to a different time and place. Based on a ... Read More

The 45th New York Film Festival doesn't officially begin until Friday, but press screenings have been underway all week long at the Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater. Here's a rundown of what we've seen ... Read More

  (Run Lola Run) The Internet has spoken!  A few weeks ago, we posted about Edward Copeland's efforts to compile a list of favorite foreign films, with open voting for anybody with ... Read More

It's a good week for slightly more obscure foreign films on DVD: Lars Von Trier's office satire The Boss of It All, the absurd Belgian comedy L'Iceberg, and the Tibetan ... Read More

Craig Zobel's independent film The Great World of Sound takes aim at the dark side of American Idol, capturing the trend of people looking for a shortcut to fame, as ... Read More

David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises won the People's Choice Award on Saturday at the Toronto Film Festival, wrapping up a ten day fest that featured 349 films from all over the world. ... Read More

Forget Woody Allen. Robert Cary takes psychotherapy to new extremes in this intelligent romantic comedy. Jennifer Westfeld (Kissing Jessica Stein) and Chris Messina star as neurotic New Yorkers looking for ... Read More

Canadian actress Sarah Polley's remarkable directorial debut Away From Her is out this week on DVD. Also worthy: the Belgian film Private Property, featuring Isabelle Huppert as a deliciously creepy ... Read More

Ang Lee's Lust, Caution (Se, Jie) won the Golden Lion as the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, the second win for the director who also took the top prize in ... Read More

French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg has been pronounced "out of danger" after emergency brain surgery following a water-ski accident, according to the Associated Press. Daughter of Serge Gainsbourg and British actress ... Read More

John Turturro's Queens musical Romance and Cigarettes is a "working class opera" that only could have sprung from the mind of Barton Fink -- and in a way it did, ... Read More

  Diego Luna plays a Michael Jackson impersonator in   Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely. There are three more days of premieres at Venice before the illustrious Golden Lion prize is announced, but ... Read More

Goro Miyazaki, son of anime legend Hayao (Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle), adapted Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea books for his directing debut. Tales from Earthsea has been playing the world ... Read More

For his awe-inspiring documentary, David Sington reunited surviving members of the Apollo space program, including eight of the twelve men the United States sent to the moon between 1969 and ... Read More

Without the enormously influential contribution of Jim Jarmusch, there would be no such thing as "independent film" -- at least not as we know it. With the groundbreaking release of ... Read More

A trio of actors -- Ryan Reynolds, Hope Davis, Melissa McCarthy -- star in three segments, numbers which equal nine when multiplied. John August's directing debut is called The Nines, ... Read More