Paul Verhoeven

After earning critical acclaim for his early foreign-language films like SOLDIER OF ORANGE (with Rutger Hauer), Dutch director Paul Verhoeven made a splash in Hollywood with the satire and carnage of ROBOCOP (with the great Peter Weller), STARSHIP TROOPERS and TOTAL RECALL (Arnold Schwarzenegger), along with more steamy works like BASIC INSTINCT and the infamous SHOWGIRLS (with Elizabeth Berkley). But in recent years, the filmmaker has retreated from big-budget genre material and substantiall...