Filmreihe something weird cinema - Verhoeven-Special #01
Vorführung am Sa 28.08.21 um 20.30 Uhr
Double-Feature mit TOTAL RECALL - DIE TOTALE ERINNERUNG um 22.45 Uhr!

Bonbonfarbenes Märchen, brutal-ehrliche Satire auf den amerikanischen Traum, glossy Tanzfilm, Exploitation-Movie im Gewand eines Millionen-schweren Blockbusters und 'geadelt' mit der extrem seltenen NC-17 US-Altersfreigabe-Restriktion ... mit anderen Worten: großartiges Kino von Paul Verhoeven, einem unserer erklärten Lieblings-Regisseuere mit lumpenreiner Volltreffer-Filmographie ...

"One of the great American films of the last few years. It's about surviving in a world populated by assholes, and that's Verhoeven's philosophy." (Jaques Rivette)

"The last unrated and relatively serious sex movie to be released here was Paul Verhoeven and Joe Eszterhas's 1995 SHOWGIRLS, and it wasn’t received at all seriously. The critics hooted it off the screen as a piece of camp, just as many of them, including me, had dismissed the previous Verhoeven-Eszterhas sex movie, BASIC INSTINCT, as a hoot. I now believe that both pictures hold up much better than anything we said at the time would have suggested. SHOWGIRLS has to be one of the most vitriolic allegories about Hollywood and selling out ever made, and both films are undeniably sexy to boot." (Jonathan Rosenbaum (2017))

Die Filmprogramme von "something weird cinema" finden mit freundlicher Unterstützung des Kulturamts der Stadt Köln statt!