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Paul Verhoeven (Taschen Film)

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Great book on all of his works, from his early films in the Netherlands, all the way up through the repulsively awful 'Hollow Man'. If you're a fan, this is a fantastic compendium to his films, with some great pictures and original script pages. The critiques are hit or miss, but the information is pretty solid. Recommended for fans, but would probably be really dull if you aren't a fan.

Some really interesting behind-the-scenes stuff on his Hollywood films that make for great reading for fans of 'Robocop', 'Total Recall', 'Basic Instinct', 'Showgirls' and others.

It's kind of cool to read the statistical data on the individual films as well. Things like box office take domestically versus globally, cost of production, etc.

If you're a Verhoeven fan, you will probably enjoy this, others need not apply though.

These Taschen books have a reputation for being coffee table books. They contain great images, so this is justified.
But they also combine pretty good words to accompany the images, and this edition on Verhoeven is no different.

The written information in this book is both informative and interesting (if you are interested in cinema that is), and while it is not loaded with academic insight (look somewhere else if that's what your after) it is full up with a chronological time line about the Dutch films and Hollywood films Verhoeven has made - as well as an insight into what made this guy into the ultra violent, sex minded director he is.

basically unreadable, but to join verhoeven with the ranks of kubrick, hitchcock and fellini is just pure genius. and oh the pictures are really nice.