International – Page 7 – Anywhere But Hollywood

Häxan

May 16, 2026

Banned in the United States and censored throughout Europe for its depictions of demonic orgies and possessed nuns, this was the most expensive Scandinavian silent…

Psychomania

May 15, 2026

George Sanders took his own life shortly after the film’s completion, leaving a note that read, “Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored.”…

The Lair of the White Worm

May 11, 2026

The skull of the pagan god was built by adding sculpted sections to a real cow skull with fabricated teeth. The phallic symbolism was not…

Etoile

May 8, 2026

This is not Black Swan. When Black Swan premiered in 2010, some audience members pointed out similarities to the well-known anime Perfect Blue. A smaller…

Dogra Magra

May 5, 2026

There is an urban legend in Japan that the novel Dogra Magra can drive its reader insane. The book was published in 1935 by Yumeno…

A Dark Song

May 4, 2026

Liam Gavin had watched a documentary about Aleister Crowley performing the Abramelin ritual at Loch Ness. The ritual, drawn from a fifteenth-century grimoire known as…

Devil in the Flesh

May 2, 2026

The film’s notorious scene was the suggestion of Massimo Fagioli, Bellocchio’s psychoanalyst and regular creative collaborator, who received a dedication in the credits. Maruschka Detmers,…

Roundhay Garden Scene

May 1, 2026

Louis Le Prince was on his way to New York to demonstrate his amazing “moving photographs” invention when he boarded a train and was never…

At the Meeting with Joyous Death

April 30, 2026

Luis Buñuel made films for fifty years. His son Juan Luis made one, and then effectively stopped. That one film is this. Au rendez-vous de…

Nezura 1964

April 30, 2026

In 1963, Daiei Film offered members of the public fifty yen for every rat they brought to the studio. The cages soon filled a small…

Peeping Tom

April 29, 2026

The British critics who reviewed it in 1960 did not merely dislike it. They were horrified. They called it disgusting, depraved. The producers, panicked, pulled…

The Vanishing

April 28, 2026

There is a version with a happy ending. It was made in 1993 by the same director, in Hollywood, in English, starring Jeff Bridges and…

Kamikaze Girls

April 27, 2026

Two girls meet, one obsessed with 18th-century Rococo fashion, the other a confrontational biker with a tricked-out moped. They become best friends. This is the…

Alice

April 26, 2026

The White Rabbit is a taxidermied specimen in a glass case that breaks its own wires, dresses itself, and escapes. Alice shrinks into a china…

Alice

April 26, 2026

The White Rabbit is a taxidermied specimen in a glass case that breaks its own wires, dresses itself, and escapes. Alice shrinks into a china…