PREVIEW Comradio Film Club #4: Verhoeven #1: Showgirls feat. Dr. Eleanor Janega and Justin Hancock
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English - September 22, 2021 15:30 - 8 minutes - 10 MBPolitics News Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
A short preview of our first Patreon exclusive episode.
Just as there's nowhere quite like Vegas, there's no film experience quite like Showgirls. We go through the gates of hell into the world of Paul Verhoeven's excess. A sharp critique of capitalism, a devastating refutation of the American Dream? A Chaplinesque queer parody? A twisted version of the Wizard of Oz? Or simply the most ridiculous erotic drama to ever grace the screen? Both a popular drinking game and the focus of much intellectual discussion, Showgirls occupies its own unique section of the "so bad it's good" film category.
Join us and our guests, Justin Hancock and Dr Eleanor Janega, in our first patreon-exclusive Film Club episode as we examine sex, social relations and archetypes through this enduring cultural touchstone and camp classic.
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