Independent – Page 3 – Anywhere But Hollywood

Slums of Beverly Hills

September 20, 2026

A broke father can’t afford Beverly Hills, but is determined to send his three kids to the best public schools. So they become nomads, packing…

Waitress

September 19, 2026

A waitress bakes her whole inner life into her pies, her longings and sorrows and small rebellions. Pregnant and trapped in a marriage with a…

Night Tide

September 18, 2026

A lonely sailor on shore leave falls for a beautiful young woman who works the pier as a sideshow mermaid. He learns that the men…

Truly Madly Deeply

September 17, 2026

Half a year after the world wept over a dead man coming back to throw pottery with Demi Moore, a small British film did something…

sex, lies, and videotape

September 16, 2026

He wrote the script in eight days, on a yellow legal pad, during a drive across the country. When it got into Cannes, he didn’t…

Spring

September 15, 2026

A grieving young man spends his small inheritance on a trip to Italy. He falls in love with a woman, brilliant and beautiful, a little…

Twilight of the Ice Nymphs

September 14, 2026

A prisoner sailing home to an island where the sun never sets falls in love with a woman who vanishes before reaching port. His sister…

I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing

September 12, 2026

“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.” — T.S. Eliot In I’VE HEARD…

Smooth Talk

September 9, 2026

As a child, she played an extra in a Martin Scorsese film and had to eat an ice cream cone on camera. It took 19…

A Ghost Story

September 4, 2026

He had just finished a Disney movie. Dragons, effects, a budget in the tens of millions. Then he disappeared for nineteen days and shot a…

Robot Jox

August 25, 2026

It started as an attempt to film Homer. The hero is named Achilles. The woman he loves is Athena. Stuart Gordon, who had just made…

The Ninth Configuration

August 24, 2026

Five years after The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty had a screenplay nobody wanted. Columbia developed it and let it go. Universal turned it down, according…

Tough Guys Don’t Dance

August 22, 2026

Jean-Luc Godard wanted Norman Mailer to write and star in a modern adaptation of King Lear, with Mailer playing a mob boss called Don Learo.…

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

August 19, 2026

The book was banned by the occupying Soviet regime. When offered the film adaptation, Miloš Forman refused, fearing for his sons in Czechoslovakia. Instead, he…

Wet Hot American Summer

August 18, 2026

The actors were dressed in shorts and t-shirts and It rained almost every day of the shoot. When a scene needed sunshine, the crew held…