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Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentPathe International has unveiled the poster and trailer for Paul Verhoeven’s subversive period thriller “Benedetta.” Cannes also confirmed that the film will world premiere at this year’s festival on July 9 and will be released in French theaters on the same day. Inspired by true events, “Benedetta” is set in the late 15th century and stars Virginie Efira as Benedetta Carlini, a novice nun who joins the convent in Pescia, Tuscany.

Pathé has dropped the first trailer for Paul Verhoeven’s steamy period drama Benedetta. The latest from the Elle and Basic Instinct director has already been confirmed as an official selection at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and will screen in competition during the event which is scheduled to run July 6-17. Pathé will release locally on July 9.

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With the lack of a Cannes (and a regular film festival circuit) in 2020 due to the pandemic, there were multiple reports that a lot of filmmakers were going to hold their work back until there could be a semi-normal event to premiere. Well, judging by early reports about which films might show up, it appears that Cannes 2021 could become a truly star-studded affair with some huge projects debuting at the event.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentStudiocanal has commissioned the 4K restoration of Paul Verhoeven’s 1992 cult erotic thriller “Basic Instinct” and will be releasing it in multiple territories. The film was restored through 2019 and 2020 from the original 35MM negative and supervised by the director himself, with some bonus material from Sharon Stone and Michael Douglas.

Cannes chief Thierry Frémaux has confirmed Wes Anderson’s latest film The French Dispatch and Paul Verhoeven’s drama Benedetta will be selected for this year’s festival.

After the COVID pandemic forced the Cannes Film Festival to be canceled last year, it seemed silly to think that we could possibly go two full years without the French event. Well, as we approach the July date for this year’s already-delayed Cannes, the director of the event, Thierry Fremaux is confident the in-person festival will happen this summer, according to a new interview with Rappler.

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During her appearance on The Late Show on Wednesday, Sharon Stone shared the best advice she's received in her acting career. "Paul Verhoeven told me that my talent was like an angel that would fly through me and that I needed to get out of its way," said Stone of the director, who shaped her performance in 1992's Basic Instinct.

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The Beauty of Living Twice,” Stone has opened up about the infamous crotch shot scene in the film, which she’d been led to believe was far less revealing than it was. “After we shot ‘Basic Instinct,’ I got called in to see it. Not on my own with the director, as one would anticipate, given the situation that has given us all pause, so to speak, but with a room full of agents and lawyers, most of whom had nothing to do with the project,” reads the excerpt, published in Vanity Fair.

A young woman arrives from a distant land in the capital of a certain entertainment industry and ascends the ladder of success, only to lose a bit of her soul on each rung of the climb. That, of course, is the plot of Showgirls, but it's not like Paul Verhoeven, or anyone who's written a version of Faust, ever patented the concept.

Showgirls. Since my first viewing, it has been one of my guilty pleasures.

By and large, “Is ‘Showgirls’ a good movie?” might be one of the most unanswerable questions posed to our current generation. Aside from “What is the purpose of mankind?” or “Where do we go after we die?” the amount of genuine curiosity posed toward the intentional quality and unintended genius of Paul Verhoeven’s maligned opus has weighed upon the hearts of the casual film fan and hardcore cinephile for decades.

Total Recall is 3 decades old! Arnold Schwarzenegger’s rollercoaster ride to Mars holds up pretty well today and is seen as one of his action classics. Back in 1990 however the movie was a gamble, both for Arnie and director Paul Verhoeven.How did it come together? Did the shoot go well? What did people make of Total Recall at the time? And will there ever be a Recall 2? Let’s refresh our memories by taking a trip back to 2084…The source material for Total Recall was a Philip K.

You Don’t Nomi (★★★☆☆) comes generously prepared to deconstruct the flop, the filth, the legend that is Showgirls.

For these fans, the “Show” must ho on.

Notoriously criticized and reviled by mainstream audiences upon its release, Paul Verhoeven’s 1995 erotic Vegas odyssey “Showgirls” secured its cult status thanks to the queer community that’s kept this “masterpiece of s—” alive for the last 25 years. Audience-driven revival antics and homages have prompted some to see it in a new light or at least appreciate it differently as a movie that deserves its own place in film history.

When Paul Verhoeven followed up “Basic Instinct” with the strip club drama “Showgirls,” the film became a huge flop, hated by audiences and critics alike, and even ending the career of several people. But everyone loves a comeback story, and the first trailer for the upcoming documentary “You Don’t Nomi” is here to try and convince you that “Showgirls” was not only a good film, but it became a cult classic.

Here’s a trailer for a superb documentary coming to digital next month, a feature-length look behind Paul Verhoeven’s classic Showgirls and the phenomenon that followed, titled You Don’t Nomi.

By Elsa Keslassy