Paul Verhoeven

Film Highlight: Flame & Citron

Paul Verhoeven, Showman

The auteur-provocateur uses his basic instincts to craft a slick WWII thriller

Rachel Stein, Showgirl

A Jewish chanteuse sleeps with the devil in 'Black Book'

Toronto '06: Shut Up and Shoot

'Death of a President' and other film fest trigger-pullers blow away dissent

Slithering Heights

The year's most shameless B movie delivers exactly what it promises

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The year's most shameless B movie delivers exactly what it promises

We Were Wrong

City Pages writers look back on 25 years of arts criticism, and the sentences that still make us cringe

Roman À Clef

A 12-film series, "Cinema of Claustrophobia," gives us the real Polanski

See No Evil?

With Hollow Man, provocateur Paul Verhoeven tests the viewer's capacity to distinguish sadism from seduction

Getting Away With It

Constricted by the social taboos of the Eisenhower era, director and master melodramatist Douglas Sirk explored the mores of more

Raiders of the Lost Art

Has the artsyplex boom housebroken the independent film? A partisan's manifesto.

Ordinary People

Has the artsyplex boom housebroken the independent film? A partisan's manifesto.