International – Page 9 – Anywhere But Hollywood

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…

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.…