International – Page 8 – Anywhere But Hollywood

Dogtooth

June 2, 2026

“Zombie” is a small yellow flower. “Sea” is an armchair. Some parents shield their children from the world. These parents do it by intentionally getting…

The Changeling

May 30, 2026

In the late 1960s, co-writer Russell Hunter rented the Henry Treat Rogers Mansion in Denver. He said the house was haunted. Doors slammed, faucets turned…

The City of Lost Children

May 29, 2026

This is a fairy tale with rust under its fingernails. A scientist on a platform in a fog-bound sea cannot dream, causing him to age…

Sex and Lucía

May 26, 2026

Most films have one beginning. This one has two, and you can start from either. SEX AND LUCIA, the 2001 film from Spanish director Julio…

Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives

May 25, 2026

Hugh Everett III proposed the theory that every quantum event causes the universe to branch into a parallel reality. His son Mark leads the band…

Heavenly Creatures

May 21, 2026

Before The Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson made a film about two teenage girls and a real murder. One of those girls grew up…

Vesper

May 19, 2026

They spent ten years pitching English-language sci-fi projects. Then they went home to Lithuania and made one of the most fully realized dystopian worlds in…

The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey

May 18, 2026

A boy with a vision. A group of medieval travelers willing to follow him anywhere. And a hole in the fabric of time that leads…

A Summer Story

May 16, 2026

Penelope Mortimer wrote the screenplay in the 1960s, took the money, and forgot about it. 20 years later the film went into production and she…

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…