Director Paul Verhoeven and actor Gina Gershon discuss their 1995 film 'Showgirls' before a screening at the Film Society of Lincoln Center.

Unbound by musty notions of “good taste,” Showgirls goes further than any other film of the 1990s in its orgiastic depiction of consumerism, crass spectacle, and the dark side of the American Dream. Elizabeth Berkley (in a tourdeforce of hysterical excess) stars as Nomi, a toughasnails drifter with a goitalone attitude and a murky past, who arrives in Las Vegas and sets about trampling on everyone around her—including Gina Gershon’s evilseductive nightclub diva—as she fights her way up from stripper in a sleazy club to star showgirl. With its deliciously overripe dialogue and nighunhinged performances, Showgirls is both a delirious starisborn satire and a terrifying vision of capitalism’s corruption of the soul.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center is devoted to supporting the art and elevating the craft of cinema. The only branch of the worldrenowned arts complex Lincoln Center to shine a light on the everlasting yet evolving importance of the moving image, this nonprofit organization was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international film. Via yearround programming and discussions; its annual New York Film Festival; and its publications, including Film Comment, the U.S.’s premier magazine about films and film culture, the Film Society endeavors to make the discussion and appreciation of cinema accessible to a broader audience, as well as to ensure that it will remain an essential art form for years to come.

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