International – Page 5 – Anywhere But Hollywood

Never Let Me Go

September 3, 2026

A celebrated novelist wrote a book everyone agreed was chilling science fiction. He kept gently correcting his readers. It is not science fiction, he said.…

Until the End of the World

September 2, 2026

He shot the film across four continents. It was almost five hours long. His distributors demanded he cut it in half. So he made a…

Comin’ at Ya!

September 1, 2026

For a brief and silly stretch of the early 1980s, the movies threw themselves at you. You sat in a packed theater in cardboard glasses,…

Dead of Night

August 30, 2026

Three scientists left a cinema in the 1940s, and one asked a question that would split the field of cosmology for a generation: What if…

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

August 29, 2026

Jacques Demy knew his colors were going to die. He had shot the film in Eastmancolor, and everyone understood that Eastmancolor faded. The colors would…

Phenomena

August 28, 2026

Dario Argento had always been fascinated by bugs. In the early 1980s, he heard a radio story about a murder solved by insects. A body…

Ginger Snaps

August 27, 2026

It finally got made in 1999, in the months right after Columbine, when a violent movie about a murderous teenager was the last thing most…

Ghost in the Noonday Sun

August 26, 2026

The captain hired to deliver a pirate ship to the harbor was so drunk he drove it straight into the quay. Everyone stood on the…

King Lear

August 23, 2026

He tried to hire Richard Nixon to act in his modernized KING LEAR (1987). Nixon turned him down. It opens with a voicemail from Menahem…

How I Won the War

August 20, 2026

The wardrobe department gave him a pair of round wire-rimmed spectacles. He wore them for the rest of his life. The Beatles had just played…

Force Majeure

August 15, 2026

A perfect Swedish family sits down to lunch on a restaurant terrace, high in the French Alps. Sun, snow, two blond kids. Then an avalanche…

The Ramen Girl

August 1, 2026

Brittany Murphy told her director she had only ever been hired to play cute or crazy. She doubted she could do anything else. So they…

Three Giant Men

July 29, 2026

Spider-Man is a violent psychopath who runs a counterfeiting operation in Istanbul. He is opposed by Captain America, who has no shield, and a Mexican…

Map of the Human Heart

July 27, 2026

He was hired to make the third Alien film. His vision was a planet made of wood: a monastery in space and an order of…

The Return

July 23, 2026

This “Odyssey” came out in 2024, starred two Oscar nominees (one winner), and played to near-empty theaters despite critical acclaim. While Iphigenia (1977) gave us…