Jurgen & Marcy's World / Independent Film Blog

We've had a great time at the movies in 2007, and we've got the lists to prove it! Both Andersons -- Wes and Paul Thomas -- grace both lists, but ... Read More

Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis made an enormous impression on me. The books depict Satrapi's girlhood: growing up during the Islamic Revolution and the Iraq-Iran War, her unhappy teenage years ... Read More

Remember their names: Michael Cera, Marcus Carl Franklin, Amara Karan, Anna Kendrick, Alexandra Maria Lara, Saoirse Ronan, Sam Riley, Luisa Williams, and Tang Wei. These young, rising stars gave breathtakingly good ... Read More

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists (Marcy is a member) announced the winners of their second annual EDA awards. While the Coen Brother's testosterone-heavy No Country For Old Men was ... Read More

A busker (Glen Hansard of The Frames and The Commitments) and an immigrant flower seller (Markéta Irglová) meet in the streets of Dublin in this wonderfully unpretentious musical from director ... Read More

Weeks before its release, Paul Thomas Anderson's epic oil drama There Will Be Blood has already been gathering critical accolades and awards -- reason enough to post our review ... Read More

Francis Ford Coppola's first new film in ten years is a bizarre concoction. Youth Without Youth tells the startling tale of an immortal linguistics professor (Tim Roth) on the run ... Read More

NYFCO singled out There Will Be Blood, but the Golden Globes have anointed a new front runner in this year's hopping awards season: Atonement. Joe Wright's moving adaptation of Ian ... Read More

Joe Wright's Atonement, adapted from Ian McEwan's novel, creates that mythic, rarely-achieved movie magic: total immersion. Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai, Vanessa Redgrave and newcomer Saoirse Ronan star. Marcy's ... Read More

Jurgen saw Paul Greengrass' The Bourne Ultimatum twice and will attest to the film's extraordinary thrill factor. Also out on DVD this week, the tense indie drama Interview, in which ... Read More

Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood was the big winner at this year's New York Film Critics Online award meeting. We were there, we voted and we were happy ... Read More

The premise of James C. Strouse's directorial debut Grace is Gone is resoundingly sad. John Cusack, with a bad haircut and ill-fitting aviator glasses, learns that his wife, a solider ... Read More

Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody used to be a stripper. She's articulate, attractive, and not in the least bit press shy. In the title role of the smart-talking pregnant teenager, young ... Read More

Julian Schnabel's unorthodox biopic tells the true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric), the editor of the French Elle Magazine who suffered a stroke and was paralyzed by the inexplicable ... Read More