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Dangerous Game Directed by Abel Ferrara at the Harvard Film Archive March 11 through...
...Maverick, Madonna's entertainment company , has released its first film, Abel Ferrara's "Dangerous Game." it focuses on the pre-mid and post-production of the faux-film "Mother of Mirrors." The subtlety is overwhelming: yes, this movie frankly, the already-been-answered question of whether life imtiates art or vice-versa...
This handsomely crafted studio production, unaccountably left to languish for a year in the Warner Bros. vault, comes from an unlikely auteur: poverty- row director Abel Ferrara, whose earlier work, from Ms. 45 to Bad Lieutenant, is a gallery of Grunge Guignol. Somehow, flanked by five scripters (including his regular collaborator Nicholas St. John), he managed to stoke his tale with the eerie subtlety of the best old B movies...
...possible? Is Madonna taking the X out of Sex? No, but her director is. Abel Ferrara, who coupled the singer with actor Harvey Keitel in the movie Dangerous Game, was headed for trouble with Hollywood's rating board. To avoid an NC-17 rating, Ferrara toned down the sex. Now his film has earned a respectable R, which means more money...
...Vincent Ferrara...