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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 […]
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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 […]
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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
Rating:
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 […]
