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Hours after Madonna, her arm in a sling following a riding accident, stood alongside her husband Guy Ritchie at the Toronto Film Festival, calling his new movie Revolver “definitely” his best film yet, critics gave it a pasting yesterday.
Screen International’s Allan Hunter said that “word of mouth” from fans of Ritchie’s crime movies who see the picture “will be a killer”, as it was a “convoluted, risibly overwrought muddle”.
He predicted that audiences would be left “bewildered and disappointed”. He reported that at a preview, some twists and turns provoked “derisive laughter”.
The Hollywood Reporter critic Kirk Honeycutt found that the film spun “wildly in circles, continually doubling back on itself, repeating scenes – once even backward – and lines of dialogue until a viewer loses a grip on what is supposed to be real”.
Ritchie said in Toronto that his film may be a challenge to cinema-goers. “But I think the audience is ready for that.”
The derision will be a blow to the Hatfield-born film-maker, following the dramatic flop of his last film, Swept Away, which went straight to video in Britain after bad US reviews. It won five awards in the “Razzies” handed out in Hollywood for the year’s worst pictures.
In the late 1990s, Ritchie was seen, with his production partner, Matthew Vaughan, as one of the most exciting film industry finds since Quentin Tarantino. Their first film, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, was turned down by 10 British distributors before it got the attention of Tom Cruise. Made for £960,000, it became the third highest grossing British film of all time. Snatch, their second film, was also a success.
However, after Swept Away, with Madonna’s performance decried as wooden, Vaughan went on to direct last year’s critically acclaimed Layer Cake.
Ritchie said last week of Swept Away: “The idea was that the wife and I would make some sassy little art movie together that would come out and be wonderfully received. I took a punt and got a kicking for it. I’ve got to say, I think it’s a good film and I’m scratching my head about what went wrong.”
Madonna’s Kabbalah philosophy was influential in the script of Revolver, with Sony Films reported to have withdrawn support when Ritchie refused to tone down the religious references.
In Toronto, Madonna, recovering from breaking eight bones in a fall from her horse at their Wiltshire country house, said that the new film was “more sophisticated” than her husband’s previous films.
The often violent story stars Jason Statham as a gambler who falls foul of a crime boss (Ray Liotta).
Ritchie said: “I got too fed up with films that didn’t make you think. I liked the idea of one that you’d have to be dancing around with. I like my mind to be engaged when I watch a film.”
source : telegraph.co.uk

Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie reportedly had a food fight at a swanky London restaurant.
Onlookers claim Guy started the shenanigans at Moroccan eatery Momo when trying to help his wife – who currently has her arm in a sling after breaking her hand and collar bone in a riding accident – cut her food.
He is said to have wiped a piece of roast lamb down Madonna’s cheek, which prompted her to tip a bowl of couscous in Guy’s lap.
Witnesses claim the couple then proceeded to have a full-blown food fight.
One is quoted by Britain’s Daily Star as saying: “No one could believe they were having a food fight in such a posh restaurant.
“The waiters had to shield the other guests and pretend they didn’t notice the flying food. But they all received hefty tips from the cheeky couple afterwards.”
Last week, it was revealed Madonna and Guy don’t share their marital bed all the time. Guy, who has been married to the Material Girl for five years, confessed to Britain’s Glamour magazine: “She doesn’t seem to like my snoring, so she
boots me out of bed.
“We’ve got four houses, but in every one of them I end up sleeping in the cleaning room cupboard or the corridors because all the other bedrooms are being used.”
source : monstersandcritics

Megastar Madonna literally stole the show at the premiere of husband Guy Ritchie’s film, Revolver.
Hundreds of fans lined up around the downtown Toronto Roy Thompson Hall hoping to catch a glimpse of the material girl and they were not disappointed.
Madonna and Ritchie arrived just minutes before the scheduled 9:00 pm premiere start time.
Although Madonna is still recovering from a horse riding accident which left her with three cracked ribs, a broken collar bone and a broken hand, she says, “You would have had to broken both my arms and both my legs for me to not come here.”
She even wore a black sling (which matched her outfit) that was designed by a friend.
Madonna joked that she was feeling good – after drinking a glass of wine before the premiere.
Ritchie seemed to be feeling as good as his wife.
Revolver, Ritchie’s fourth film, is a crime caper starring Ray Liotta, Jason Statham and Andre Benjamin.
After seven years in jail, Jake Green (Statham) has learned all of the secrets of manipulation and deceit. Upon his release, he is determined to take down Macha (Liotta), the most ruthless gangster in town.
Macha is the man who killed Jake’s sister-in-law and helped to put him in jail. Jake tries to take Macha down, but his enemy is stronger than he anticipated.
The mysterious dup Ari (Benjamin) and Zach (Vincent Pastore) enter Jake’s life. The question then becomes: are these men there to help him on his mission, or there to destroy his life?
Three out of the four films Ritchie has directed have been crime capers.
He says he keeps exploring this subject because, “I am interested in the philosophy behind crimes and cons. This film takes it to a whole new level. Just how big is the con? It is the ultimate con. That is what I was looking for.”
The night was filled with celebration, but the mood turned somber as Madonna discussed the anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks in New York City and Hurricane Katrina.
“We have had another natural disaster that it’s kind of making that look like nothing in comparison. Well not nothing, but it’s worse in a lot of ways,” Madonna says.
She even filmed a commercial with other musicians (stuffed into a phone booth) asking for people to help the hurricane victims.
Next up for Ritchie and Madonna: he will continue to promote Revolver, while she prepares to release a new album.
source : ap

Madonna arrived with Guy Ritchie, for the world premiere of Ritchie’s film ‘Revolver’ at the 30th International Film Festival in Toronto.

source : ap/reuters

Broken bones could not keep US pop diva Madonna from travelling to Toronto to support her husband, director Guy Ritchie, in his quest for a distributor for his latest film Revolver, he said Sunday.
“The wife is very good, thanks. Eight broken bones and she’s come with me,” Ritchie told reporters at the Toronto International Film Festival where his movie premiered.
However, Madonna shied away from the spotlight while Ritchie went to work pitching the movie he completed only one week ago about con artists, starring Ray Liotta, Vincent Pastore, and Jason Statham.
Madonna fell off a horse in mid-August and suffered three cracked ribs, a broken collar bone and a fractured hand. She was celebrating her 47th birthday with her two children and Ritchie at their sprawling 485ha country estate in Wiltshire in southwest England when the accident happened.
Specialists expected it would take her three months to make a full recovery.
Ritchie’s Revolver is reminiscent of his earlier gritty crime thrillers Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2001), but with many more twists and turns that can easily confuse or entice viewers to watch it several times to uncover its many layers.
Audiences are encouraged not to blink or risk missing key story elements.
“The script was not easy to digest on the first read,” Ritchie conceded. But, too many movies are “designed not to make you think”.
“I think I got fed up with films that don’t make you think. I liked the idea of one that you have to be dancing around with. I like my mind to be engaged when I watch a film. So, the idea was really to put five films in one,” he said.
The “tricky” action also reinforces the idea that a con is just a slight of hand – nobody is sure in this movie who is playing who, not even the audience.
source : dailytelegraph.news.com.au

from DrownedMadonna : Apparently David LaChapelle treatment for Madonna’s new video “Hung Up” will not be used anymore. Steven Klein is back as the creative mind for the video. The concept chosen is the colorful and joyful one, of which we talked about two days ago. As DrownedMadonna reported the shooting will take place at the end of the week, in Los Angeles.

Madonna, Confessions on a Dance Floor, Nov. 15
Official blurb: “Twelve delicious tunes of pure, unapologetic dance music … the original Queen of Dance Music returns to where she began and kicks it up a few extra notches.”
Why we care: Are you kidding? We care deeply about every move Madonna makes. While she’s made some hideous missteps in the past – rapping, acting – and isn’t exactly the greatest singer on the planet, she at least has a sense of style and has, intermittently, produced some interesting music over the years. Being political was all well and good, but there is no crime in recording songs that have good beats you can dance to.
Details: All the grooves on the record were “dance-floor tested” instrumentally in some of Europe’s hottest clubs before they were cut and finished for the record.
source : jam

November 7th 2005 appears to be a key date in the music industry for women to make their comebacks. Madonna, Kate Bush and Alanis Morissette all have albums slated for release that day.
Madonna is expected to return with her new album Confessions On a Dancefloor whilst Kate Bush is to release her first album in 12 years, which will be a double CD called Aerial, Maverick records have announced a new compilation CD called The Collection from Alanis Morissette.
source : albumvote.co.uk

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