Subject:

Paul Verhoeven

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2011

    Showgirls in Drag at the Dragonfly: The Classic Elizabeth Berkley Film, With Cross-Dressing

    Lina Lecaro Detox Icunt and Willam Belli nail it as rivals Cristal and Nomi.​The glitzy getups. The awesomely ridiculous dialog. The impassive sex. The cringe-worthy acting. And, it's set in Vegas, baby! If any film is rife for theatrical parody, it's Showgirls. (One of its stars actually did ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    Showgirls 2 -- Penny's From Heaven: Rena Riffel's New Spoof of Paul Verhoeven's, Err, Classic

    Rena Riffel​ Everyone remembers the infamous scene from 1995 cult classic Showgirls in which Cristal Connors (actress Gina Gershon) gazes into the eyes of Nomi Malone (actress Elizabeth Berkley) and says, "You see, darlin', you are a whore." Though the notoriously so-awful-it's-great film see ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2010

    SHOWGIRLS 2: It's real, and the trailer is NSFW batshit insane.

    ​Last fall, word started to spread on the interwebs that an unknown German director named Marc Vorlander was planning to make a sequel to Showgirls, the Paul Verhoeven's 1995 trashterpiece, beloved by some but dismissed by many as one of the worst films of all time. In October, Vorlander confirmed ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    August 13, 2009

    Movie Reviews: Bandslam, Flame & Citron, The Time Traveler's Wife

    Also, The Goods, It Might Get Loud and more

  • Film+TV

    December 25, 2008

    Valkyrie: The Man Who Nearly Killed Hitler

    An interview with the movie's star and director, Tom Cruise and Bryan Singer

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2008

    The Porn of Pain

    Suffering may be the great, undying subject of cinema, but at any film festival worth its salt, the escalating volume of calamity, catastrophe and apocalypse means that the conscientious (or congenitally miserabilist) critic risks drowning in pain porn. Stumbling from divorce to rape to abuse to end ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2008

    In the Beginning

    Suffering may be the great, undying subject of cinema, but at any film festival worth its salt, the escalating volume of calamity, catastrophe and apocalypse means that the conscientious (or congenitally miserabilist) critic risks drowning in pain porn. Stumbling from divorce to rape to abuse to end ... More >>

  • Stage

    June 26, 2008

    Last Dance

    Showgirls: The Best Movie Ever Made. Ever! hits the stage one more night at UCB

  • Stage

    June 26, 2008

    Theater Reviews: Showgirls, As You Like It

    Also, Outbursts, The Last Seder, and more

  • Film+TV

    February 28, 2008

    The Counterfeiters' Stefan Ruzowitzky Challenges Holocaust Dogma

    Unorthodox Jews

  • Film+TV

    February 21, 2008

    The Counterfeiters: Blood Money

    A morally ambiguous Holocaust tale of survival and collusion

  • Film+TV

    October 18, 2007

    In Control

    Anton Corbijn masters the moving image

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2007

    Lust, Yawn, Caution

    There is a famous story about actor-director Erich von Stroheim that goes something like this: Cast as Rommel in Billy Wilder's 1943 Five Graves to Cairo, Stroheim was given a prop Leica camera as part of the character's wardrobe and proceeded to demand that the camera have film in it. When Wilder a ... More >>

  • News

    June 7, 2007

    Spare the Writer

    There is a famous story about actor-director Erich von Stroheim that goes something like this: Cast as Rommel in Billy Wilder's 1943 Five Graves to Cairo, Stroheim was given a prop Leica camera as part of the character's wardrobe and proceeded to demand that the camera have film in it. When Wilder a ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    April 19, 2007

    Black Book, Grindhouse and the Relativist Hole

    There is a famous story about actor-director Erich von Stroheim that goes something like this: Cast as Rommel in Billy Wilder's 1943 Five Graves to Cairo, Stroheim was given a prop Leica camera as part of the character's wardrobe and proceeded to demand that the camera have film in it. When Wilder a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 5, 2007

    April 6, 2007

    To Play or Not to Play: Tales of glory and folly on local stages by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS and STEVEN MIKULAN

  • Film+TV

    April 5, 2007

    Guerrillas of Orange

    Paul Verhoeven opens the Black Book on World War II

  • Film+TV

    March 29, 2007

    Evidence Grise

    Paul Verhoeven returns to the past — his and ours — in the Holocaust thriller Black Book

  • Film+TV

    March 8, 2007

    Reporting From Mexico

    Impressive fest proves Peter Bart wrong

  • LA Life

    March 1, 2007

    Do-Run-Run

    What to do in Los Angeles this week

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2006

    Vote For Pedro (and Larry)

    The small but conspicuous coterie of film critics seen perambulating this year's Toronto Film Festival decked out in red-and-white "Vote For Pedro" t-shirts were not, despite the potential misunderstanding, expressing their undying love for Napoleon Dynamite. Rather, the Pedro in question was Pedro ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    August 24, 2006

    Showgirls

    The small but conspicuous coterie of film critics seen perambulating this year's Toronto Film Festival decked out in red-and-white "Vote For Pedro" t-shirts were not, despite the potential misunderstanding, expressing their undying love for Napoleon Dynamite. Rather, the Pedro in question was Pedro ... More >>

  • Columns

    August 5, 2004

    Leave Your Inhibitions at the Door

    The small but conspicuous coterie of film critics seen perambulating this year's Toronto Film Festival decked out in red-and-white "Vote For Pedro" t-shirts were not, despite the potential misunderstanding, expressing their undying love for Napoleon Dynamite. Rather, the Pedro in question was Pedro ... More >>

  • Music

    May 29, 2003

    Lalo Schifrin Swings

    How an Argentinean became the ultimate American musician

  • Film+TV

    November 23, 2000

    Total Rehash

    Cloning Arnold Schwarzenegger

  • News

    November 9, 2000

    My So-Called Rotten Life

    Susan Tyrrell’s sentimental journey through money, fame, sex and amputation

  • Art+Books

    August 17, 2000

    Hollow Promise

    iJunkets furnishes virtual face time with stars — but on whose terms?

  • Film+TV

    August 10, 2000

    Empty Dumpty

    Sounding for echoes in Hollow Man

  • Music

    July 13, 2000

    A Whimper From Venus

    Sounding for echoes in Hollow Man

  • Film+TV

    April 27, 2000

    Beauty and the Beast

    French cinema battles Hollywood’s global movie offensive

  • Film+TV

    August 27, 1998

    No Easy Pieces

    Neil LaBute's sexual healing

  • Film+TV

    February 19, 1998

    Bad Girl

    The incredibly strange films of Doris Wishman

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