Anywhere But Hollywood – Page 5 – The Cure for the Common Algorithm

Robot Jox

August 25, 2026

It started as an attempt to film Homer. The hero is named Achilles. The woman he loves is Athena. Stuart Gordon, who had just made…

The Ninth Configuration

August 24, 2026

Five years after The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty had a screenplay nobody wanted. Columbia developed it and let it go. Universal turned it down, according…

King Lear

August 23, 2026

He tried to hire Richard Nixon to act in his modernized KING LEAR (1987). Nixon turned him down. It opens with a voicemail from Menahem…

Tough Guys Don’t Dance

August 22, 2026

Jean-Luc Godard wanted Norman Mailer to write and star in a modern adaptation of King Lear, with Mailer playing a mob boss called Don Learo.…

Phantom of the Paradise

August 21, 2026

It was huge in Winnipeg. The soundtrack sold twenty thousand copies in that one city and went gold across Canada. Everywhere else… not so much.…

How I Won the War

August 20, 2026

The wardrobe department gave him a pair of round wire-rimmed spectacles. He wore them for the rest of his life. The Beatles had just played…

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

August 19, 2026

The book was banned by the occupying Soviet regime. When offered the film adaptation, Miloš Forman refused, fearing for his sons in Czechoslovakia. Instead, he…

Wet Hot American Summer

August 18, 2026

The actors were dressed in shorts and t-shirts and It rained almost every day of the shoot. When a scene needed sunshine, the crew held…

The Addiction

August 17, 2026

The Guardian’s chief film critic Peter Bradshaw named it one of the greatest films of all time. Tokyo Story. Paths of Glory. Raging Bull. Andrei…

A Midnight Clear

August 16, 2026

A whole generation of American film, packed into one small 1992 movie not enough people saw. The director was Keith Gordon, who played the bullied…

Force Majeure

August 15, 2026

A perfect Swedish family sits down to lunch on a restaurant terrace, high in the French Alps. Sun, snow, two blond kids. Then an avalanche…

Tammy and the T-Rex

August 14, 2026

He had access to a life-sized animatronic Tyrannosaurus rex for two weeks before it had to be shipped off to a theme park in Texas.…