≡ Category: Comedy, Highly Recommended, Holland | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Holland
Genre: Comedy
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Year: 1971
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TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It’s amazing to think that with his first film, Paul Verhoeven’s essential characteristics as a filmmaker (and those of his main screenwriter over the years, Gerard Soeteman) were already in evidence.
Business Is Business is punchy. The tone is frank (some would say vulgar). Verhoeven and […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Holland, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Holland
Genre: Action/ Drama
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Year: 2006
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Soldier of Orange must have the oddest tone of any war film I’ve ever seen. It isn’t organized by theme. It doesn’t really have a 1st, 2nd and 3rd act in the conventional sense. There are no particular stakes.
All that director Paul Verhoeven wants to […]
≡ Category: Action, Essential, Holland, Movie Reviews Ordered By Country | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Year: 1985
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Flesh + Blood was director Paul Verhoeven’s first attempt at an American style action movie, which I find endlessly amusing and charming. You see, Flesh + Blood is beyond dark — it’s black as anthracite. Let’s see, what all do we have here? Primitive biological […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Essential, Holland, Movie Reviews Ordered By Country, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: United States
Genre: Action/Drama/Suspense
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Year: 2006
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Black Book (Zwartboek) is a return to form for good old Paul Verhoeven, basically because he is allowed to be himself without being second guessed by an endless stream of Hollywood wankers who wouldn’t know art if they tripped over it.
When Verhoeven first came to […]
≡ Category: Art, Drama, Essential, Holland, Movie Reviews Ordered By Country | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Holland
Genre: Drama/ Art
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Year: 1983
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Paul Verhoeven clearly had a ball making The Fourth Man, which was critically and financially successful. His previous two pictures, Soldier of Orange and Spetters, were both drubbed by the critics in Holland, who found them one dimensional. Verhoeven and his screenwriter Gerard Soeteman, decided […]
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Country: Holland
Genre: Drama/ Art
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Year: 1980
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TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
A Dutch coming of age drama — sounds boring, doesn’t it? Not when the director is Paul Verhoeven (Robocop, The 4th Man, Flesh + Blood). Here’s another clue: the title, Spetters, is slang for splashes of semen, roughly analogous to the charming American term “pearl […]
