International – Page 4 – Anywhere But Hollywood

Wings of Desire

September 25, 2026

Berlin, before the Wall came down, was a city full of people who could not hear each other. Above them moved figures who could hear…

Amer

September 24, 2026

It barely bothers with dialogue. Every desire, every terror, every flicker of fantasy arrives through color, texture, and sound, a film assembled less like a…

Bagdad Cafe

September 23, 2026

A German tourist in a heavy tweed suit walks alone down a Mojave Desert highway, dragging a suitcase. She has just left her husband stranded…

Breaking Glass

September 22, 2026

An unknown young singer wrote and performed an album’s worth of songs, then starred as a punk star chewed up and spat out by the…

Requiem

September 21, 2026

In 2005 Hollywood turned the real tragedy of a young woman’s death into a supernatural thriller with the usual horror tropes. One year after The…

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…

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…

The Final Programme

September 13, 2026

Mick Jagger was offered the lead and turned it down for being too weird. Michael Moorcock is one of the most prolific fantasy writers who…

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…

On the Silver Globe

September 11, 2026

Andrzej Żuławski was two years and eighty percent into an ambitious, delirious science-fiction epic when the government shut his production down. The Communist authorities in…

The Company of Wolves

September 10, 2026

A British writer rewrote Perrault’s fairy tales as explicitly adult stories of danger and desire. Bluebeard, Beauty and the Beast, Red Riding Hood, all reclaimed…

Run Lola Run

September 8, 2026

It’s become a Hollywood blockbuster trope. The story that splits into branching timelines. The hero who dies, respawns, and tries the level again. Writer-director Tom…

Sliding Doors

September 7, 2026

A man stepped off the curb without looking. A car screeched to a halt an inch from his body. Standing there, heart pounding, he thought:…

Jabberwocky

September 6, 2026

A Python was directing. A Python was starring. It was set in the Middle Ages, arriving right on the heels of Holy Grail. Audiences settled…

Children of the Damned

September 5, 2026

You know the children with the glowing eyes. Platinum blond, moving as one, staring down grown men until they turn their weapons on themselves. Four…