A man is adrift in a strange town, he is not the only one Stranded.
Secção: Retrospectivas | Retrospectives
Keetje is one of the daughters of a poor family that decides to move to Amsterdam in search of a better life, at the end of the XIX century. Everywhere she looks it seems that prostitution and corruption are the only ways out.
Het korps Mariniers is a documentary that Paul Verhoeven directed when he was doing service at the navy.
In his last film directed in America, Paul Verhoeven adapts H. G. Wells classic book The Invisible Man. Kevin Bacon is Sebastian Caine, an investigator that discovers the secret of invisibility and decides to experiment it on himself.
Paul Verhoeven’s first American film was also the worst shooting of his life. Plagued with bad weather, drug abuse and constant discussions with Rutger Hauer, it managed to produce an explicit depiction of conflict in the middle Ages.
Feest! was inspired by Paul Verhoeven’s own childhood and shot at the high school he attended.
This is Vincent Macaigne’s first feature film. Filmed in 13 days, it adapts the Molière play Dom Juan. Although it remains close to the original text, it is a modern take on the Juan-Sganarelle master-servant relationship.
Eén hagedis teveel is Paul Verhoeven’s debut short, filmed in Leiden when he was still a student.
De worstelaar is his last short film and was directed when Paul Verhoeven had already worked for several years in television.
This is the last film before Paul Verhoeven’s American productions. De vierde man is a thriller involving black widows, drunken writers, visions of death and the apparition of the Virgin Mary. The result was a success.
De lifters depicts the sixties youth hitchhiking.
The loved child fights the renegade brother after their father’s death in What We’ll Leave Behind.
Mia Hansen-Løve’s first film.)
Ted, a stuffy white guy from Illinois working in sales for the Barcelona office of a US corporation, is paid an unexpected visit by his somewhat less stuffy cousin Fred, who is an officer in the US Navy. Over the next few months, both their lives are irrevocably altered by the events which follow Fred’s arrival, events which are the trivial stuff of a comedy of manners at first but which gradually grow increasingly dramatic.)
A trio of girls set out to change the male-dominated environment of the Seven Oaks college campus, and to rescue their fellow students from depression, grunge and low standards of every kind.)
Sharon Stone crosses her legs with no pants on. Michael Douglas is on fire and both start to “dance” in bold sex scenes à la Astaire-Rogers style in the horizontal. This erotic thriller was a huge success of course.
21.04.02 was the day Jean-Marie Le Pen went to the second round of the presidential race.
A bittersweet comedy about life changes and sudden events concerning love and destiny. Vincent Macaigne portaits a man that decides to start jogging only to be stabbed when trying to save a beautiful girl. But that is just the beginning.