Anywhere But Hollywood – Page 5 – Unusual Movies for Unusual People

Wings of Desire

September 25, 2026

Berlin, before the Wall came down, was a city full of people who could not hear each other. Above them moved figures who could hear…

Amer

September 24, 2026

It barely bothers with dialogue. Every desire, every terror, every flicker of fantasy arrives through color, texture, and sound, a film assembled less like a…

Bagdad Cafe

September 23, 2026

A German tourist in a heavy tweed suit walks alone down a Mojave Desert highway, dragging a suitcase. She has just left her husband stranded…

Chronovisor

September 23, 2026

In the 1960s, an Italian monk said he had built a machine that could tune into the past like a television. He said he had…

Breaking Glass

September 22, 2026

An unknown young singer wrote and performed an album’s worth of songs, then starred as a punk star chewed up and spat out by the…

Requiem

September 21, 2026

In 2005 Hollywood turned the real tragedy of a young woman’s death into a supernatural thriller with the usual horror tropes. One year after The…

Slums of Beverly Hills

September 20, 2026

A broke father can’t afford Beverly Hills, but is determined to send his three kids to the best public schools. So they become nomads, packing…

Waitress

September 19, 2026

A waitress bakes her whole inner life into her pies, her longings and sorrows and small rebellions. Pregnant and trapped in a marriage with a…

Night Tide

September 18, 2026

A lonely sailor on shore leave falls for a beautiful young woman who works the pier as a sideshow mermaid. He learns that the men…

Truly Madly Deeply

September 17, 2026

Half a year after the world wept over a dead man coming back to throw pottery with Demi Moore, a small British film did something…

sex, lies, and videotape

September 16, 2026

He wrote the script in eight days, on a yellow legal pad, during a drive across the country. When it got into Cannes, he didn’t…

Spring

September 15, 2026

A grieving young man spends his small inheritance on a trip to Italy. He falls in love with a woman, brilliant and beautiful, a little…

Twilight of the Ice Nymphs

September 14, 2026

A prisoner sailing home to an island where the sun never sets falls in love with a woman who vanishes before reaching port. His sister…

The Final Programme

September 13, 2026

Mick Jagger was offered the lead and turned it down for being too weird. Michael Moorcock is one of the most prolific fantasy writers who…

I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing

September 12, 2026

“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.” — T.S. Eliot In I’VE HEARD…