International – Page 6 – Anywhere But Hollywood

Hatching

July 22, 2026

She runs a family blog. Every post shows the perfect home, the perfect marriage, the perfect daughter. Her followers do not see that her twelve-year-old…

The Road Home

July 20, 2026

One year before Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000), 19-year-old dance student Zhang Ziyi made her theatrical film debut for the most acclaimed director in China.…

Krakatit

July 19, 2026

The novel, about an explosive force powerful enough to destroy the world, was written in 1922. The film was made in 1948, after World War…

Iphigenia

July 18, 2026

In The Odyssey, Odysseus spends ten years trying to get home from Troy. In 1977, a Greek director filmed the part of the story Hollywood…

Lady Snowblood

July 17, 2026

A broken woman serves life in a Meiji-era prison. The men who destroyed her and her family are still out there. She gives birth on…

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

July 16, 2026

With the Screen Actors Guild threatening to strike, a British newspaper introduced cinema’s newest leading lady as “tall, attractive, and guaranteed not to strike.” Four…

The Valley

July 15, 2026

For over fifty years, Pink Floyd fans have loved OBSCURED BY CLOUDS, the warm, hypnotic record that arrived just before DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.…

Frankenstein: The True Story

July 13, 2026

It was written by Christopher Isherwood, whose Berlin stories became CABARET, working with Don Bachardy, the man he shared his life with. Like the Berlin…

Young Einstein

July 10, 2026

In 2000, he sued the search engine Yahoo! for using his name. He lost. Yahoo Serious – his legal name – grew out a shock…

Dracula

July 9, 2026

For decades, one Hammer legend refused to die: that a more explicit cut of the film that reinvented horror had played overseas in 1958, too…

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland

July 8, 2026

Before SPIRITED AWAY, before TOTORO, Hayao Miyazaki spent roughly a year on an animated feature he would later call the worst experience of his life.…

Mr. Horatio Knibbles

July 7, 2026

Ask around now and grown men will lower their voices about it. A children’s film that colonized British nightmares. He lives in a place called…

Godzilla

July 4, 2026

In 1977, Luigi Cozzi secured the Italian rights to Godzilla (1954). Unable to sell the black and white film, he colored it himself. And padded…

Fascination

July 1, 2026

In 1905, it was fashionable for anemic women in Paris to visit slaughterhouses and drink fresh ox blood. Doctors prescribed it as a cure. Jean…

A Monster Calls

June 30, 2026

A dying writer was inspired to write a story about a boy with a dying mother. The writer passed away before she could finish it.…