Jurgen & Marcy's Independent Film Blog March 2008 Archive

Eddy Moretti and Suroosh Alvi's documentary Heavy Metal in Baghdad will open the 15th and final New York Underground Film Festival tomorrow night at Anthology Film Archives. Starting out as ... Read More

It's not high art, but Pierre Salvadori's sunny romantic comedy Priceless is certainly funny. Audrey Tautou (of Amelie fame) sheds her peachy clean image with the role of Irene, a ... Read More

The indie romance Wristcutters: A Love Story is set in a strange version of the afterlife, and halfway through David Lynch's decidedly weird Lost Highway, Bill Pullman enters another reality ... Read More

Courtney Hunt's Frozen River took me to a place I'd never been before: a Mohonk reservation where a young Indian woman with a childlike voice teams up with a white ... Read More

Dans Paris, Christophe Honoré's bittersweet homage to the New Wave, made my top ten list of 2007. Now the novelist and director is back with a musical starring Ludivine Sagnier, ... Read More

Patrica Riggen's Under The Same Moon is a sentimental fairytale about a Mexican boy named Carlitos (Adrian Alonso), a spunky tyke who crosses the border into the U.S. to find ... Read More

English filmmaker Anthony Minghella, who received an Oscar for The English Patient (1996), died Tuesday of a hemorrhage following surgery. The English Patient, adapted from the novel by Michael Ondaatje, won ... Read More

This week, our calendar was filled with press screenings for The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art New Directors/ New Films series, which gave Marcy a ... Read More

In the past, we've often been underwhelmed by the Tribeca Film Festival, but perhaps it's time to get guardedly excited about this year's selections. With the announcement of lineups for ... Read More

Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) stars in Heartbeat Detector, Nicolas Klotz's political thriller about a man who unwittingly unearths the ghosts of his corporate employer's sordid past. ... Read More

From 1989 to 2001, the Wetlands Preserve flourished just off of New York's Houston Street. Founded by a Deadhead, the club attracted rising bands in the burgeoning "jam bands" scene, ... Read More

28-year-old actress Tang Wei has been blacklisted in China because of the sexual nature of her performance in Ang Lee's erotic thriller Lust, Caution. Neither the director nor co-star Tony ... Read More

There's much to admire in the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men. Winner of four Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for ... Read More

The South by Southwest Film Festival launched this Friday in Austin, Texas. What originally began as an alt-rock music event has been screening independent films since 1994 and gaining more ... Read More

Make of the Ocean franchise what you want, but one thing is certain: stylistically, Steven Soderbergh set the bar for heist thrillers pretty high. With The Bank Job, thriller ... Read More

Relationships are hard in the fourth feature by David Gordon Green. In a wintry small town, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell, and Michael Angarano struggle with unhappy romantic entanglements, and when ... Read More

Skateboarding is a crime after all in Gus van Sant's adaptation of Paranoid Park, Blake Nelson's coming-of-age novel about a teenager who is involved in an accidental death. Fresh-faced kids ... Read More

"A funny story, in its way, about a man who wanted to poison his wife and found he'd be lost without her." With these words, Richard (Pierce Brosnan) sums up ... Read More