Paul Verhoeven
IMDb:https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000682/
Date of Birth:18 July 1938, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
Height:5' 8" (1.73 m)
Trademarks:Famous for his extremely violent, yet intelligent, science fiction films (RoboCop (1987), Total Recall (1990), Starship Troopers (1997) and Hollow Man (2000)). Frequently works with screenwriter Gerard Soeteman (on his Dutch films), photographer Jost Vacano, and Rutger Hauer (Turks fruit (1973), Keetje Tippel (1975), Soldaat van Oranje (1977), Spetters (1980) and Flesh+Blood (1985)). A lot of his films include media coverage of some kind, ranging from real archive footage (Soldaat van Oranje (1977) ) to fictional news (RoboCop (1987), Total Recall (1990), Starship Troopers (1997)) and sportscasts (Spetters (1980)). Heavy use of Christian symbolism (Turks fruit (1973),Spetters (1980), De vierde man (1983), Flesh+Blood (1985), RoboCop (1987), Basic Instinct (1992) ) Sexually-charged subject matter (Turks fruit (1973), Basic Instinct (1992), Showgirls (1995) and Zwartboek (2006)). His films usually have the two main antagonists hostile to each other (Dick Jones and Clarence Boddicker in RoboCop (1987), Cohaagen and Richter in Total Recall (1990), Catherine Trammel and Beth Garner, the two main suspects in Basic Instinct (1992), who were possibly framing each other and Ludwig Muntze and Gunther Franken in Zwartboek (2006)) Use of Nazi symbolism/imagery. Examples: The characters played by Kurtwood Smith in Robocop and Neil Patrick Harris in Starship Troopers are patterned after Heimrich Himler of Hitler's SS. The society of Earth in Starship Troopers is patterned after Nazi Germany. Strong visual style with heavy use of special effects
Elle
UK Cinema Release Date
Friday 10th March 2017
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Michèle seems indestructible. Head of a successful video game company, she brings the same ruthless attitude to her love life as to business. Being attacked in her home by an unknown assailant changes Michèle's life forever. When she resolutely tracks the man down, they are both drawn into a curious and thrilling game-a game that may, at any moment, spiral out of control.
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Friday 12th June 2020
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Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls (1995) was met by critics and audiences with near universal derision. You Don't Nomi traces the film's redemptive journey from notorious flop to cult classic, and maybe even masterpiece.
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Friday 4th December 2020
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Douglas Quaid is haunted by a recurring dream about a journey to Mars. He hopes to find out more about this dream and buys a holiday at Rekall Inc. where they sell implanted memories. But something goes wrong with the memory implantation and he remembers being a secret agent fighting against the evil Mars administrator Cohaagen. Now the story really begins and it's a rollercoaster ride until the massive end of the movie.
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Friday 15th April 2022
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