During his 15-year Hollywood career in the ’80s and ’90s, Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven may have been America’s most misunderstood major director. Verhoeven specialized in cold, acid comedies in disguise, always drenched in sex (Basic Instinct, Showgirls — the latter’s alleged unintentional comedy highly intentional) or violence (Robocop, the prescient militarism satire Starship Troopers). These […]