Total Recall

Director: Paul Verhoeven

1990 / 113min / DCP

February 11th and February 15th screening on 35mm print courtesy of Howard Simon

Back in the days when the system would still occasionally let a visionary blockbuster slip through, gleefully perverse Dutchman Verhoeven teamed up with an Austrian-born weightlifter who was then the biggest action star in the world to make a big-budget adaptation of a mind-bending Philip K. Dick story. The result: painful nasal probes, Sharon Stone, cartoon bloodshed, three-breasted Martian sex workers, a litany of quotable lines, and a piece of cinema history.