Thursday, April 20th at 7:30pm
at
Brickbat Books:
Margaret Barton-Fumo
on
Filmmaker Paul Verhoeven
Very
Verhoeven is Margaret Barton-Fumo, editor
of Paul Verhoeven: Interviews, in conversation with person-about-town
Carrie Jones as they reckon with the lurid push pull of the Dutch director’s
oeuvre. A book signing and screening of Verhoeven-inspired video work by filmmaker
Danielle Burgos will follow the Q&A.
Paul
Verhoeven: Interviews includes six-newly translated Dutch newspaper interviews
from Verhoeven’s early career, select storyboards by Verhoeven himself, and a
set of previously unpublished interviews by Barton-Fumo focusing on 2016’s award-winning
French-language production, Elle, starring Isabelle Huppert.
After a
robust career in the Netherlands as the country’s most successful director,
acclaimed filmmaker Paul Verhoeven built an impressive career in the United
States with such controversial blockbusters as RoboCop, Total Recall,
Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers, and Showgirls before
returning home to direct 2006’s Black Book. After a stint as a reality
television judge in the Netherlands, Verhoeven returned to the big screen with
his first feature film in a decade, Elle.
Margaret Barton-Fumo writes
the Deep Cuts column for Film
Comment and has interviewed such
directors, actors, and musicians as Brian De Palma, Alejandro Jodorowsky, James
Gray, Andrzej Zulawski, Harry Dean Stanton, and Paul Williams. She lives in
Brooklyn.
Danielle Burgos is an
editor, animator, and filmmaker living in Brooklyn. She's contributed to Screen Slate, Hopes&Fears,
and is currently writing the Over The Garden Wall comic
series. She programs regularly at Spectacle in Williamsburg.