Jurgen & Marcy's World / Independent Film Blog

Forty earth years have passed since the Star Child first floated into view at the mind blowing climax of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, and to celebrate the anniversary, ... Read More

We've got three exciting DVDs to recommend this week: Julian Schnabel's brilliant, Oscar-nominated The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, the idiosyncratic indie release The Guatemalan Handshake and Greg Araki's ... Read More

Say what you will about the sprawling Tribeca Film Festival, which has taken over Lower Manhattan and continues through May 4, but they do have the biggest press badges of ... Read More

Helen Hunt's directorial debut Then She Found Me is a lovely adaptation of Eleanor Lipman's bestselling novel, stuffed to the breaking point with overlapping story lines. It's a romantic comedy, ... Read More

Gentlemen, start your engines: opening today with Tina Fey's Baby Mama, the 7th installment of the Tribeca Film Festival is screening 121 feature films at a dozen locations throughout Lower ... Read More

Jürgen screamed twice during Juan Antonio Bayona's spooky ghost story The Orphanage. If that's not scary enough, try Fine Dead Girls, a lesbian horror flick from Croatia. Also out this ... Read More

Standard Operating Procedure, the new documentary by Oscar-winner Errol Morris (The Fog of War), is a difficult film to embrace. A detailed investigation into the infamous photographs of atrocities committed ... Read More

The post-Oscar doldrums hit the theaters every year, but it must say something about our current moment that the most exciting new movies I've seen these last few weeks appeared ... Read More

I don't enjoy dumping a bunch of negativity on a well-intentioned small movie with a brief engagement at Cinema Village, but it has to be said: The Dhamma Brothers, a ... Read More

It's a good week for comedies: you can now take home Ellen Page in Juno, own the African satire Bamako about a broken marriage and a broken country, and see ... Read More

The opening situation of Tom McCarthy's second film The Visitor is ripe with drama. Economics professor and quintessential sad man Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins) returns to his Greenwich Village apartment ... Read More

Drink that milkshake: Paul Thomas Anderson's masterpiece There Will Be Blood is out today on a 2-disc DVD set. Also, another film concerned with the evils of oil, the necessary ... Read More

We’re proud to present the April issue of the Mississippi Review Web, dedicated to fiction inspired by the movies. Includes short stories about mumblecore, the interior lives of city-devouring monsters, ... Read More

Set a coming of age film about adolescent French girls in a swimming pool somewhere in the suburbs of Paris and you've got me. I love the genre, can't get ... Read More

Mick Jagger does his usual strutting and prowling and mugging, but the most expressive thing on screen are the wrinkles on the aging band's faces. Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones documentary ... Read More

Hou Hsiao-hsien's Flight of the Red Balloon is a charming homage to the 1956 French classic by Albert Lamorisse and an intimate portrait of a unique Paris family. A blond ... Read More

The Oscar for Best Picture may have gone to No Country for Old Men, but there's no doubt in my mind that Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, starring ... Read More