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Her web connects them all. But you probably already knew that. Photo: Sony Pictures Entertainment The most famous line from Madame Web doesn’t actually appear in the movie. “He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died,” a clunky, Adr-dubbed expositional...

Her web connects them all. But you probably already knew that.Photo: Sony Pictures Entertainment

The most famous line from Madame Web doesn’t actually appear in the movie. “He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died,” a clunky, Adr-dubbed expositional...

One of the last movies we’d ever link to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is Showgirls. The Razzies, sure, but the Oscars? But the much-derided film is finally getting some due, with a special 35mm screening at the Academy Museum this week. Yes, it sold out.

Elizabeth Berkley – who played aspiring dancer Nomi in the 1995 movie – made a speech at the Showgirls screening, cheekily telling the audience, “So tonight I’d like to thank the Academy…Museum.” She went on to note the importance of the story that its initial audience missed, expressing her gratitude to those that have continued to support the movie nearly 30 years on. “[Showgirls] really pushed the boundaries at that time that now have been embraced — not misunderstood but truly embraced. And I’m so grateful that the film has found its way not only in your hearts but especially the LGBTQ community…...

Monday, Dec. 21

“First Cow” Declared Best Picture with Florida Film Critics Circle

The Florida Film Critics Circle awarded its top prize to “First Cow,” and the film’s John Magaro also received a nod in the Best Actor category as a runner up.

Current Oscar frontrunner and festival darling “Nomadland” also landed two wins, Best Director for Chloe Zhao and the Best Actress to Frances McDormand.

The complete list of 2020 winners is below:

Best Picture

“First Cow”

Runner up: “Nomadland”/”Trial of the Chicago 7″/”Minari”

Best Actor

Anthony Hopkins, “The Father”

Runner up: John Magaro, “First Cow”

Best Actress

Frances McDormand, “Nomadland”

Runners up: Viola Davis, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”/Carey Mulligan, “Promising Young Woman”

Best Supporting Actor

Paul Raci, “Sound of Metal”

Runner up: Brian Dennehy; “Driveways”

Best Supporting Actress

Maria Bakalova, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”

Runner up: Yuh-Jung Youn, “Minari”

Best Ensemble

“Mangrove”

Runner up: “The Trial of the Chicago 7...

Read Stephen Tronicek’s Wamg review of You Don’T Nomi Here

Rlje Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, is releasing the acclaimed documentary You Don’T Nomi on July 21, 2020. The feature screenwriting and directorial debut of Jeffrey McHale, You Don’T Nomi is available on DVD for an Srp of $27.97 and on Blu-ray for an Srp of $28.97.

Now you can win the Win the You Don’T Nomi. We Are Movie Geeks has four copies to give away. Just leave a comment below telling us what your favorite movie directed by Paul Verhoven. (mine’s Robocop. It’s so easy!)

1. You Must Be A US Resident. Prize Will Only Be Shipped To US Addresses. No P.O. Boxes. No Duplicate Addresses.

2. Winner Will Be Chosen From All Qualifying Entries.

In You Dont Nomi, a chorus of film critics and fervent devotees explore the complicated afterlife of 1995s biggest film flop, Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls,...

Sometimes it can take years of perspective to fully realize and embrace the true value of a film. That’s certainly the case for the the erotic drama, ‘Showgirls,’ which marked the transition of former teen actress, Elizabeth Berkley, into adult roles. The acclaimed documentary, ‘You Don’t Nomi,’ explores the complicated afterlife of 1995’s biggest movie […]

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Shooting rescheduled to begin in August, after being postponed due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

UK distributor Bulldog Film Distribution has acquired all UK and Ireland rights to Nemesis, the upcoming gangland home invasion thriller starring Billy Murray (Rise Of The Footsoldier).

It marks the first feature from Shogun Films, a London-based production outfit that was launched in January by Jonathan Sothcott and Jeanine Sothcott.

Jonathan Sothcott previously produced features including Vendetta, We Still Kill The Old Way and The Krays: Dead Man Walking, which proved home entertainment hits when released in the UK.

Filming was due to begin on Nemesis...

From writer/director Jeffrey McHale, the documentary You Don’t Nomi explores the controversial Nc-17 rated film Showgirls, from its disastrous theatrical release to its unexpected cult status and why its gained such a following of devotees, over its 25-year history. With the debate over its quality and its questionable messages about sex and gender, a collection of film critics, scholars and members of the fan community explore and reflect back on an artistic intent they may never be fully known or understood, but that sparks a conversation that connects them all together. During this 1-on-1 …...

To mark the release of You Don’t Nomi on 12th June, we’ve been given 5 iTunes download codes to give away, along with a collectors poster for each winner.

When Showgirls was released in 1995, Paul Verhoeven’s salacious Nc-17 look at Vegas dancers was met by critics and audiences with near universal derision. But in the intervening decades, the film has inspired an ever-growing fan community and impassioned debate over its quality, artistic intent and messages about sex and gender. Guided by a chorus of film critics, scholars, and fervent devotees, Jeffrey McHale’s documentary explores the legacy and broader implications of Showgirls, while diving into its cultural inspirations as well as its place in Verhoeven’s filmography.

In tracing Showgirls’ complicated journey from notorious flop to cult classic and unlikely artistic resurrection, You Don’T Nomi takes an entertaining and thought-provoking look at an unforgettable piece of American popular culture...

Curio is our fan art series, curated by Nathaniel R

I found myself seething with jealousy yesterday when Joey from Awards Daily received a Nomi Malone pin (left) in celebration of the release of the documentary You Don't Nomi

Today on the inimitable Gina Gershon's birthday,  I am more zen about the injustices of being denied Showgirls swag. Life is not fair. And I'm getting too old for that whorey look, anyway.

Nevertheless I was one of the original champions* of the movie's trash brilliance, and I am programmed to celebrate it every time it comes back around to public attention. After the jump some tees, crafts, and artwork honoring the iconic characters from that classic film...

When “Showgirls” opened in the fall of 1995, it was mocked and damned with more derision than the usual movie debacle. That’s because, according to the conventional view, it was not just a bad movie but an unspeakably vulgar bad movie. Directed by the talented Euro sensationalist Paul Verhoeven, from a script by the top-dollar pasha of tabloid high concept Joe Eszterhas, it was “All About Eve” remade as a glitzy Vegas trash opera of live flesh, and it was perceived as having committed a kind of double sin. Yes, it was tacky and pulpy, sleazy and over-the-top. But part of what drove the collective nose-thumbing was a kind of lingering American puritanism that said: A movie that dives into a swamp this sordid, drinking in the voyeuristic shallowness of it all, has to be ridiculed. “Showgirls” was its own category of disaster, a Hollywood bomb that exposed itself with full-frontal shamelessness.

A selection of last year's film festivals such as Tribeca, Fantastic Fest, Sidewalk, Outfest, Stiges, Bifan, You Don't Nomi is the first documentary by Jeffrey McHale, who wrote, directed, and produced. It's streaming today, so why not have a fun double feature of craziness and camp?  As you may have heard by now, You Don't Nomi is based on the history of the troubled reception of the 1995 "trashterpiece," Showgirls. That 2-hour-plus opus of can't-look-away ridiculousness was helmed by titan Paul Verhoeven. He'd teamed up again with highly paid screenwriter Joe Eszterhas to create an over-the-top indictment of the meat market that is Las Vegas' show scene.  It's a strange movie to watch if you're a feminist... but honestly, it's a strange...

[Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]...

By and large, “Is ‘Showgirls’ a good movie?” might be one of the most unanswerable questions posed to our current generation. Aside from “What is the purpose of mankind?” or “Where do we go after we die?” the amount of genuine curiosity posed toward the intentional quality and unintended genius of Paul Verhoeven’s maligned opus has weighed upon the hearts of the casual film fan and hardcore cinephile for decades.

Continue reading ‘You Don’t Nomi’ Examines The Blurry Line Between The Genius & Tragedy Of ‘Showgirls’ [Review] at The Playlist.

Back in 2016, the Twitter account for French studio Pathé Films released a Nsfw trailer for the DVD and Blu-ray release of Paul Verhoeven’s much-reviled, T&a-fueled camp classic, Showgirls. This trailer itself was a work of pulsating beauty. Never had the story of Nomi Malone looked so pristine. And never had the film itself seemed so progressive. After all, the Nc-17-rated 1995 flop had been brutally pushed down the cultural stairs upon release, and for years afterward. Only in recent years had the tide begun to turn. “APRÈS Les Crucifixion,” the intertitles read, “La RÉSURRECTION.” In essence, those five words tell the story of Showgirls’ unexpected second life.

Those five words are also the theme of You Don’t Nomi, Jeffrey McHale’s wise, entertaining exploration of the life, death, and resurrection of Showgirls. Its subject is near and dear to cinephiles, bad-movie fanatics, drag queens, and pretty much anyone...

We’ve seen Elisabeth Moss take on corporate male toxicity in Mad Men, a ghost of a man in The Invisible Man, Gilead in The Handmaid’s Tale and punk rock in Her Smell. This weekend we’ll see her as a horror author who tries not to unravel as she goes through her creative process in the Josephine Decker-directed Shirley.

The film, which is adapted from Susan Scarf Merrell’s 2014 novel of the same name, bowed at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and is based on the real-life horror author Shirley Jackson and her husband Stanley Hyman.

“We were not making a film that we ever thought, ‘Oh, we’re making a film about the real Shirley Jackson’,” Decker told Deadline at Sundance. “In fact, the script really meshed up a bunch of timelines in the real Shirley Jackson’s life, so it absolutely was a fiction.

Between there only being four Fridays this month and most studios banking on July as a return to theaters, June doesn’t have as much going for it as the previous two thirty-day quarantine blocks. So catch-up on what you’ve missed, check out a few of the titles listed below, and prepare for the onslaught that’s coming. Fingers crossed this is the end and not merely a sign of the inevitable backslide risked by opening things up too soon.

Illustrated faces

If you’re going to market a film whose intent is to reconsider an infamous work such as Showgirls, you do all you can to give the whole a new paint job. It’s no surprise then that The Crp Group would go with an illustrative representation of that flop’s leading character for the documentary You Don’t Nomi. Remove any implicit stigma that showing a photo...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham are joined by special guest Jeffrey McHale, director of You Don’t Nomi, to discuss Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls and his documentary exploring its initial reception and reappraisal as a cult classic. You Don’t Nomi arrives digitally on June 9 and, as mentioned on the podcast, here is Jeffery’s Showgirls/Black Swan trailer mashup.

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Review by Stephen Tronicek

There are two types of people in the world: Those who think Paul Verhoven’s 1995 film Showgirls is absolutely awful and those who think it is awful, yet incredible in many ways. It’s hard to deny the fact that Verhoven’s over the top vision of sex and violence in America is a doozy of a film. Raunchy, corny, overacted, and very insensitive, Showgirls is like the id of Verhoven horribly showing up and showing you his true face. It’s also, through a certain lens, a pretty good film about the sickness of American capitalism and how it affects sex work.

This debate is the basis for Jeffrey McHale’s You Don’t Nomi, a documentary about the making of Showgirls and the cultural impact of the film. It samples from a number of sources, like interviews with Verhoven, popular film critics, and people who...

With regular movie theaters still closed for the time being, digital releases have been giving us movie fans a much-needed respite these last few months, and we’ve got even more new films to look forward to get us through the next few weeks.

June’s Digital and VOD releases kick off on the 4th, with Shudder's streaming debut of the stellar documentary Scream, Queen! My Nightmare On Elm Street, and the very next day, things really pick up with several more films hitting a variety of platforms, including Shirley, Becky, The Deeper You Dig, and Dinner Party.

The following week we have a few more titles hitting streaming, including the documentary You Don’t Nomi, which is centered on the cult film Showgirls, which is being released on the 9th, and Warning: Do Not Play making its way to Shudder on the 11th. The next installment of the Into the Dark series,...

Notoriously criticized and reviled by mainstream audiences upon its release, Paul Verhoeven’s 1995 erotic Vegas odyssey “Showgirls” secured its cult status thanks to the queer community that’s kept this “masterpiece of s—” alive for the last 25 years. Audience-driven revival antics and homages have prompted some to see it in a new light or at least appreciate it differently as a movie that deserves its own place in film history.

What began as a personal quest to better understand my own fascination with this complicated film evolved into my first feature documentary, “You Don’t Nomi.” Here are a few interesting facts I learned along the way.

1. “Showgirls,” a movie about a volatile and combative stripper-turned-dancer on the Las Vegas strip, was originally pitched as a big, splashy MGM-style Hollywood musical

Dutch auteur Paul Verhoeven had become an unlikely Hollywood powerhouse. After directing two blockbuster popcorn flicks, “Robocop” and “Total Recall,...

In You Don't Nomi, a chorus of critics and fervent devotees explore the complicated afterlife of 1995's biggest flop, Paul Verhoeven's salacious Showgirls. From disastrous release to cult adoration and extraordinary redemption, it's all here in the new project. The documentary features Adam Nayman (Vice Guide to Film), April Kidwell, and Peaches Christ (Milk). Additionally, the movie features archive interview footage with the cast and crew of Showgirls from around the time that the movie opened in theaters.

When Showgirls was released in 1995, Paul Verhoeven's Nc-17 look at Vegas dancers was met by critics and audiences with near universal derision. But in the intervening decades, the movie has become a cult favorite and has inspired an ever-growing fan community. An impassioned debate over its quality, artistic intent, and messages about sex and gender continues to this day. Guided by critics, scholars, and fervent devotees, Jeffrey McHale's You Don't...

Review by Stephen Tronicek

There are two types of people in the world: Those who think Paul Verhoven’s 1995 film Showgirls is absolutely awful and those who think it is awful, yet incredible in many ways. It’s hard to deny the fact that Verhoven’s over the top vision of sex and violence in America is a doozy of a film. Raunchy, corny, overacted, and very insensitive, Showgirls is like the id of Verhoven horribly showing up and showing you his true face. It’s also, through a certain lens, a pretty good film about the sickness of American capitalism and how it affects sex work.

This debate is the basis for Jeffrey McHale’s You Don’t Nomi, a documentary about the making of Showgirls and the cultural impact of the film. It samples from a number of sources, like interviews with Verhoven, popular film critics, and people who...

Team Experience reporting from Tribeca Film Festival which wraps up tomorrow. Here's Nathaniel R

Of all the titles that I most looked forward to at Tribeca's 2019 edition, You Don't Nomi was at the top of the list. The debut documentary from Jeffrey McHale examines the cult fandom and critical rehabilitation (of sorts) surrounding Paul Verhoeven's trash-masterpiece Showgirls (1995). And readers, I was not dissapointed so much as seething with envy while watching it...