International – Page 8 – Anywhere But Hollywood

Starcrash

April 25, 2026

Luigi Cozzi had been trying to sell his science fiction project to producers for a year when Star Wars came out in May 1977. The…

The Peasants

April 23, 2026

The studio in Kyiv had to be shut down after Russia invaded Ukraine. The painters were evacuated. When the studio reopened as fighting eased in…

Liane, Jungle Goddess

April 23, 2026

In 1956, producer Fritz Gerhardt auditioned 12,000 girls before selecting fifteen-year-old Marion Michael as Germany’s answer to Brigitte Bardot. He then sent her to Africa…

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

April 23, 2026

Heath Ledger died midway through the shoot. He had completed all his real-world scenes as Tony – a slippery, seductive drifter who falls in with…

Haunted

April 23, 2026

Its London premiere was attended by Princess Diana. In the United States it went straight to video. HAUNTED (1995) is an adaptation of James Herbert’s…

The Girl on a Motorcycle

April 23, 2026

It was the first film to receive an X rating in the United States under the newly introduced system, and was recut by Warner Bros.…

Photographing Fairies

April 22, 2026

In 1917, two young girls in the village of Cottingley in Yorkshire produced five photographs that appeared to show fairies. Arthur Conan Doyle, who had…

Things to Come

April 22, 2026

Arthur C. Clarke showed it to Stanley Kubrick early in the development of 2001. Kubrick disliked it. After seeing 2001, Frederik Pohl observed that the…

Blue My Mind

April 20, 2026

The mermaid has always been male fantasy made flesh – and fin. This film twists the fantasy into something biting and precise. Lisa Brühlmann’s 2017…

The Spirit of the Beehive

April 19, 2026

A 1973 film about a child in 1940 watching a movie made in 1931. THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE was made under Franco’s dictatorship, which…

Paperhouse

April 16, 2026

PAPERHOUSE is sometimes categorized as a children’s fantasy film. It’s really not. Bernard Rose (Candyman) adapted it in 1988 from Catherine Storr’s 1958 novel Marianne…

Unforgiven

April 15, 2026

Hollywood remakes Japanese films all the time. Japan remaking Hollywood is rarer. Japan remaking a film that was itself a spiritual descendant of Kurosawa? That’s…

Starship Invasions

April 12, 2026

In the summer of 1977, Star Wars came out and changed science fiction forever. A few months later, Canada released STARSHIP INVASIONS, and it did…