Anywhere But Hollywood – Page 16 – Unusual Movies for Unusual People

Paradise

April 24, 2026

“The Blue Lagoon with camels” – that was Vincent Canby’s review in the New York Times, and it is both accurate and insufficient. PARADISE (1982)…

Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

April 24, 2026

Since the early 1980s, hundreds of cryptic tiles have been found embedded in the asphalt of major intersections in Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Boston, Washington…

Flesh Gordon

April 23, 2026

It began as a pornographic film. That is not the most interesting thing about it. FLESH GORDON (1974) was shot as early as 1971 by…

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…

The Apple

April 22, 2026

Audience members were handed free vinyl records of the soundtrack as they entered. By the fillm’s end, they were throwing them at the screen. THE…

Lifeforce

April 21, 2026

In 1985, Cannon Films gave Tobe Hooper $25 million, a novel about space vampires, and what he later described as the freedom to make a…

Chosen Survivors

April 20, 2026

A computer selects eleven people at random. They are sedated, loaded onto helicopters, and deposited into a state-of-the-art nuclear bunker two miles beneath the desert.…

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…