Not exact matches
And he'll almost certainly be back on the festival
circuit this fall with the
American remake of his 2013
film Gloria, with Julianne Moore in the lead.
Today, after several months of bouncing around the International festival
circuits, Paul Verhoeven's newest
film Elle arrives in
American cinemas.
It is certainly one of the most courageous and passionate portraits of the
American underbelly ever put on
film, a movie bathed in blood as much as in light, and revisiting the
film on its Blu - ray debut, mastered from the brand new digital restoration currently making the rounds on the festival and repertory cinema
circuit, only confirms the power of the
film to, after all these years, sink the audience into the mind and filthy, fetid world of Travis Bickle.
It compared the
film's awards -
circuit fast track to ones taken by La La Land and
American Sniper.
Director Eli Roth, torture porn king, made a huge splash in the indie
circuit with this outrageously gory and torture - ridden horror
film about three
Americans traveling through Europe.
And, she served as Associate Producer on Defending the Fire, a documentary about Native
American warriors currently playing the
film festival
circuit.
Never released on VHS, rarely seen on TV or cable (and even then only in pan-and-scan versions) or revived in the dwindling repertory
circuit, this
film has not received its due as a masterpiece of
American social drama in large part because it's been so damnably difficult to see.