Films Directed by Paul Verhoeven (Film Guide) - Showgirls, Total Recall, Black Book, RoboCop, Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 30. Chapters: Showgirls, Total Recall, Black Book, RoboCop, Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers, Soldier of Orange, Flesh & Blood, Hollow Man, Keetje Tippel, Turkish Delight, Business Is Business, The Fourth Man, Spetters, All Things Pass. Excerpt: Black Book (Dutch: ) is a 2006 World War II film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman and Halina Reijn. The story is about a young Jewish woman in the Netherlands who becomes a spy for the resistance during World War II after tragedy befalls her in an encounter with the Nazis. The film had its world premiere on September 1, 2006, at the Venice Film Festival and its public release on September 14, 2006, in the Netherlands. The press in the Netherlands was divided, but with three Golden Calves Black Book was the most awarded film at the Netherlands Film Festival in 2006. The international press responded positively, especially to the performance of Van Houten. It was the Dutch submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2007, but was not nominated. At the time of its release, it was the most expensive Dutch film ever made, and also the Netherlands' most commercially successful, with that country's highest box office gross of 2006. In 2008, the Dutch public voted it the best Dutch film ever. In October 1956, Ronnie (Halina Reijn), a Dutch woman married to a Canadian clergyman, is on a package tour of Israel. While visiting a kibbutz, she bumps into a schoolteacher, Rachel Rosenthal, whom she realises she knew during the Second World War. The film then flashes back to 1944, and begins the story of Rachel Stein (Carice van Houten), a Dutch Jewish singer who had lived in Berlin before the war and is now hiding from the Nazi regime in the occupied Netherlands. Rachel Stein on the back of a...