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Attaboy encouragement
Hollywood Elsewhere — Attaboy encouragement Posted by Jeffrey Wells on February 13, 2008 at 09:32 AM In a Berlin Film Festival review of Filth and Wisdom , the first feature directed by Madonna, Times Online critic James Christopher has waxed mixed-positive. Wait...is that an accurate way to characterize? It's almost a pan but with a Valentine flourish. Like Christopher was staggered by the fact that it was a lot better than expected, which led to his writing from a generous (i.e., relieved) state of mind. "Despite its many shortcomings and an ending so mushy and neat it would embarrass ...

Holy shit, Madonna directed a good movie
Derober.com — ... Madonna’s directorial debut of Filth and Wisdom was supposed to end in blood and tears. But low and behold, she pulled a decent movie out of her palate toned ass. Or so says one film critic. According to timesonline.com, ...

Madonna’s Movie: Almost Altmanesque
SpoutBlog — ... They’re calling it an exclusive, which we’re sure won’t be accurate for long, but for the time being the Times Online has the first full review of Madonna’s directorial debut, Filth and Wisdom. Again, this ...

Madonna's Dirty Movie Actually Doesn't Suck [Madonna]
Gawker — ... Amazingly, it appears Madonna's debut as a film director and co-screenwriter, Filth and Wisdom, is not going to be embarrassingly bad. Given an exclusive early review, the Times of London declares the movie a "froth, life-affirming comedy" thanks to "sheer exuberance... celebrating London's ethnic stew." Also, the music rocks. There is "some clunkingly awful acting" and "stagey" scenes, blamed on Madonna's poor writing, but of course the terrible stuff was expected by film buffs and everyone else in the world. The Times is likely pulling some punches ...

Madonna's new film: "I'm never going to be as good as Tracey!"
thelondonblog — More stripper performance angst, this time from Madonna's short film which The Times have exclusively reviewed as having "an artistic ambition that has simply bypassed her husband". Ouch. While ...

Madonna's Movie Not Universally Hated
Mollygood — ... Madonna’s directorial debut, Filth and Wisdom, about which we were healthily skeptical, is not being panned by every single critic who sees it. (Wha?) In fact, The Times of London reviewer who previewed Filth at the Berlin Film Festival gave it three stars out of five. But what a bad good review: ...

Spreading the love around
Mrs. Mogul — ... have to share this cartoon for Valentine's Day. ***** Long Island hospital where J-Lo is going to pop the twins did a Code Pink drill last Friday. This is to thwart a possible kidnappings. Singer Lily Allen now has her own chat show on the BBC. Her first guest was Cuba Gooding Jr., who started stripping while Lily looked on as they sat on what looks like a big diaphragm! Madonna's directorial debut got a great review. Wonder if Guy is feeling little? Is anyone still watching American Idol? The top 24 was ...

Pictures & Additional Review: Madonna @ Berlin Film Festival premiering her directorial debut
Oh No They Didn't! — ... review source pictures source

That tricky directorial debut.
IFC: Indie Eye — ... James Christopher, London Times: "Despite its many shortcomings and an ending so mushy and neat it would embarrass Richard Curtis, Madonna has done herself proud. Her film has an artistic ambition that has simply bypassed her husband, the film director Guy Ritchie. She captures that wonderfully accidental nature of luck when people’s lives intersect for a whole swathe of unlikely but cherishable reasons. Altmanesque would be stretching the compliment too far, but 'Filth and Wisdom' shows Madonna has real potential as a film director." ...

What if ...
Mostly Movies — Mostly Movies A notebook of links and commentary on film and the arts, with occasional stabs at understanding current events. A mix of the serious and the silly, and with a special emphasis on Ms. Natalie Portman. Thursday, February 14, 2008 What if ... ...Madonna ( Filth & Wisdom ) was a good film director ? (London Times, Madonna.com) Posted by Simon Crowe at 4:21 PM Labels: Directors , Filth and Wisdom , Madonna 0 comments: Post a Comment Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) I ...