Anywhere But Hollywood – Page 6 – Unusual Movies for Unusual People

On the Silver Globe

September 11, 2026

Andrzej Żuławski was two years and eighty percent into an ambitious, delirious science-fiction epic when the government shut his production down. The Communist authorities in…

The Company of Wolves

September 10, 2026

A British writer rewrote Perrault’s fairy tales as explicitly adult stories of danger and desire. Bluebeard, Beauty and the Beast, Red Riding Hood, all reclaimed…

Smooth Talk

September 9, 2026

As a child, she played an extra in a Martin Scorsese film and had to eat an ice cream cone on camera. It took 19…

Run Lola Run

September 8, 2026

It’s become a Hollywood blockbuster trope. The story that splits into branching timelines. The hero who dies, respawns, and tries the level again. Writer-director Tom…

Sliding Doors

September 7, 2026

A man stepped off the curb without looking. A car screeched to a halt an inch from his body. Standing there, heart pounding, he thought:…

Jabberwocky

September 6, 2026

A Python was directing. A Python was starring. It was set in the Middle Ages, arriving right on the heels of Holy Grail. Audiences settled…

Children of the Damned

September 5, 2026

You know the children with the glowing eyes. Platinum blond, moving as one, staring down grown men until they turn their weapons on themselves. Four…

A Ghost Story

September 4, 2026

He had just finished a Disney movie. Dragons, effects, a budget in the tens of millions. Then he disappeared for nineteen days and shot a…

Never Let Me Go

September 3, 2026

A celebrated novelist wrote a book everyone agreed was chilling science fiction. He kept gently correcting his readers. It is not science fiction, he said.…

Until the End of the World

September 2, 2026

He shot the film across four continents. It was almost five hours long. His distributors demanded he cut it in half. So he made a…

Comin’ at Ya!

September 1, 2026

For a brief and silly stretch of the early 1980s, the movies threw themselves at you. You sat in a packed theater in cardboard glasses,…

Dead of Night

August 30, 2026

Three scientists left a cinema in the 1940s, and one asked a question that would split the field of cosmology for a generation: What if…

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

August 29, 2026

Jacques Demy knew his colors were going to die. He had shot the film in Eastmancolor, and everyone understood that Eastmancolor faded. The colors would…

Phenomena

August 28, 2026

Dario Argento had always been fascinated by bugs. In the early 1980s, he heard a radio story about a murder solved by insects. A body…

Ginger Snaps

August 27, 2026

It finally got made in 1999, in the months right after Columbine, when a violent movie about a murderous teenager was the last thing most…