Anywhere But Hollywood – Page 8 – The Cure for the Common Algorithm

The Road Home

July 20, 2026

One year before Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000), 19-year-old dance student Zhang Ziyi made her theatrical film debut for the most acclaimed director in China.…

Krakatit

July 19, 2026

The novel, about an explosive force powerful enough to destroy the world, was written in 1922. The film was made in 1948, after World War…

Iphigenia

July 18, 2026

In The Odyssey, Odysseus spends ten years trying to get home from Troy. In 1977, a Greek director filmed the part of the story Hollywood…

Lady Snowblood

July 17, 2026

A broken woman serves life in a Meiji-era prison. The men who destroyed her and her family are still out there. She gives birth on…

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

July 16, 2026

With the Screen Actors Guild threatening to strike, a British newspaper introduced cinema’s newest leading lady as “tall, attractive, and guaranteed not to strike.” Four…

The Valley

July 15, 2026

For over fifty years, Pink Floyd fans have loved OBSCURED BY CLOUDS, the warm, hypnotic record that arrived just before DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.…

Hell’s Belles

July 14, 2026

The film treats biker girl Cathy as a commodity. The actress who played her became a princess. HELL’S BELLES (1969) is an American International Pictures…

Frankenstein: The True Story

July 13, 2026

It was written by Christopher Isherwood, whose Berlin stories became CABARET, working with Don Bachardy, the man he shared his life with. Like the Berlin…

The Movie Orgy

July 12, 2026

Long before Gremlins, Joe Dante made a movie so tangled in other people’s copyrights that he could never legally sell it. For decades, the only…

Incubus

July 11, 2026

Months before Star Trek, William Shatner starred in a horror film performed entirely in Esperanto, the constructed international language created in 1887 by a Polish…

Young Einstein

July 10, 2026

In 2000, he sued the search engine Yahoo! for using his name. He lost. Yahoo Serious – his legal name – grew out a shock…

Dracula

July 9, 2026

For decades, one Hammer legend refused to die: that a more explicit cut of the film that reinvented horror had played overseas in 1958, too…