Word: madonna
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effort to prove herself as an actress, Madonna has tired her hand at everything from movie musicals to period pieces to thrillers. Needless to say, these attempts have been futile. The mere mention of her name in conjunction with any film is guaranteed to evoke chuckles if not full-fledged sighs. So, what's materials girl to do? Produce your own film in which you star as a Hollywood icon qua actress searching for legitimacy...
...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...
Harvey Keitel, as director Eddie Israel, casts actors Sarah Jennings (Madonna) and Francis Burns (James Russo) as a middle-class couple on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Having undergone some sort of epiphany, Jennings' character has decided to leave her husband and the comfortable yet destructive life of drugs and multiple-partner sex they share. Employing some sort of twisted method-acting technique, Israel allows his principles to really go at each other in order to heighten dramatic intensity. The audience is asked to believe that Burns is allowed to rape and beat Jennings in repeated takes...
Never mind the fact that this premise is about as fresh as Madonna is shocking. "Dangerous Game" as simply not interesting because "Mother of Mirrors" is not. From what we can tell, this film seems to consist of nothing but cliche albeit abusive diatribes from one spouse to another. One gets the sense that the film being made is going straight-to-video. Consequently, we are hardly interested in witnessing its production let alone the repetitive takes of boring scenes. The script, too, is dismal. When not rummaging through his chest of platitudes and overused analogies, writer Nicholas St. John...
...artsy films"--"Schindler's List" or "Remains of the Day," for example--which have "nothing to do with art." Then of course, there are "movies," the lowest category of them all What's movie? Petric couldn't name one. "What's playing now?" he asked scornfully, waving his hands. "Madonna? Popcorn movies...