Holly Weston in Filth and Wisdom
This week, IFC Films and MPI Media Group released Madonna’s directorial debut Filth and Wisdom, a genre-defying exploration of what it takes to be a creative artist, on DVD. To celebrate Filth and Wisdom’s release, Film Fetish is giving away three copies of the DVD to readers.
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In order to be entered into the random drawing for your free copy of Filth and Wisdom on DVD, you must also:
- Reply to this post, and name four films that you’ve watched and enjoyed from my list of more than 50 Art House Favorites RIGHT HERE
I’ll be running this contest through next Friday October 9, 2009.
More about Filth and Wisdom
Madonna teams with rock sensation Eugene Hutz for a startling exploration of what it takes to be a creative artist.
Madonna makes a bold and uncompromising move behind the camera in her first film as writer-director, Filth and Wisdom, a one-of-a-kind look at something close to her heart: the undeniable artistic impulse. The genre-defying film – a rowdy, romantic, kinky, comic rock drama, starring the equally unique Eugene Hutz of the acclaimed gypsy punk group Gogol Bordello – comes to DVD September 29, 2009, via IFC Films and MPI Media Group.
Madonna and co-scripter Dan Cadan set their story in a London flat where three disparate – and increasingly desperate – roommates struggle to make ends meet while also trying to achieve their dreams. A.K. (Hutz) is a Ukrainian immigrant rocker who finances his goal of gaining “trans-continental superstardom” by turning tricks as a role-playing cross-dresser. Holly (Holly Weston from Splintered) is an aspiring ballerina (and object of A.K.’s unspoken love) who works as a pole-climbing stripper while she waits for her big break. Kleptomaniac Juliette (Vicky McClure from A Room For Romeo Brass) steals medicine from her pharmaceutical job with the intention of aiding suffering Africans. Living upstairs from this odd trio is a blind professor (Richard E. Grant from Withnail & I, The Age Of Innocence) who dispenses the wisdom that helps them get past all the filth with their dignity intact.
Director: Madonna
Writers: Madonna, Dan Cadan
Cast: Ade, Gogol Bordello, Olegar Fedoro, Stephen Graham, Richard E. Grant, Eugene Hutz, Shobu Kapoor, George Keeler, Francesca Kingdon, Elliot Levey, Inder Manocha, Vicky McClure, Tim Wallers, Hannah Walters, Holly Weston, Clare Wilkie
Original Release Year: 2008
DVD Release Date: September 29, 2009
Filth and Wisdom DVD packaging
I\’ve watched and enjoyed Slundog Millionaire.
Shaun of the Dead(Seen it a dozen times)
Pride & Prejudice(Seen it about 2 dozen times)
Australia(own it! won it in a sweeps! Long but fabulous)
Troy(Can’t ever get enough of brad Pitt as Achille’s)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Seen it 100′s of times..just found the Premier Collectors Edition at a pawn shop unopened for $2 …I am a happy Camper).
I would have to say–Chocolat, Pride & Prejudice, Spirited Away, and The Others.
Chocolat, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and The Big Lebowski
Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf or Death
Shaun of the Dead
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Big Lebowski
The Secret
Pride and Prejudice
Slumdog Millionaire
The Dark Crystal
Surprised to see this but I watched it with the kids, Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf or Death, classic Beatles,A Hard Day\’s Night, Freddy vs. Jason & Kung Fu Panda-kids loved it, me…not so much.
EMAIL REMOVED
Slumdog Millionaire
Dead Calm [Blu-ray]
The Witches
A Christmas Story (Full-Screen Edition)
I\’ve watched and enjoyed…
1. In Bruges….like 2 days after I was in Bruges someone told me about the movie, great movie!!
2. A Christmas Story… Now that\’s a classic!
3. Full Metal Jacket….Another classic!
4. The Shining….no one will ever play a psychopath better than Jack N. One of my next trips is going to be to the hotel that inspired the shining and then to the hotel where they filmed it.
I’ve seen these 4 great ones: Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf or Death, Pride & Prejudice, The Dark Crystal and Spirited Away
Labyrinth
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
Moulin Rouge!
The Inheritance
Slumdog Millionaire
Pride & Prejudice
The Big Lebowski
4 of my favs
slumdog millionaire
troy
oliver
caligula
Shaun of the Dead (laughed my butt off!)
The Ninth Gate (awesome!)
Death at a Funeral (everyone should see this!!!)
Miss Potter (cried my eyes out!)
“Pride & Prejudice”, “Slumdog Millionaire”, “Shaun of the Dead” and “Spirited Away”
slumdog millionaire
shaun of the dead
princess mononoke
the inheritance
Slumdog Millionaire, The Secret, Shaun Of the Dead , Wallace and Gromit
1. Shaun Of The Dead
2. Slumdog Millionaire
3. wallace & grommit: a matter of loaf and death
4. Pride & Prejudice
I\’ve Watched And Enjoyed
1.Labyrinth
2.The Witches
3.The Neverending Story
4.Clash Of The Titans
Slumdog Millionaire
Wallace & Gromit
Chocolat
Labyrith
Spirited Away, The Dark Crystal, Princess Mononoke, Once. All great films. Thank you for the chance to win.
Mine are-
slumdog millionaire
australia
the ninth gate
pans labyrinth-
I liked all of them.
Spirited Away, Amelie, Chocolat & Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire, Shaun of the Dead, Spirited Away, Torchwood: Children of Earth
Pride and Prejudice
Slumdog Millionaire
No Country For Old Men
Shaun Of The Dead
Pride & Prejudice
Wallace & Gromit
The Secret
Harry Potter
1. Slumdog Millionaire
2. Emma
3. Best in Show
4. Chocolat
let the right one in
shaun of the dead
the lives of others (fantastic movie!)
city of god (another fantastic movie)
1. Pride & Prejudice
2. Shaun of the Dead
3. Best in Show
3. Green Street Hooligans
I’d love to win…
city of god ,death at a funerali, milk, love actually, 2001: a space oddysey.
i’ve seen: wallace & grommit: a matter of loaf and death, princess mononoke, freddy vs jason, australia… didn’t even have to past the 1st page
i want to win
This is Easy! Slumdog Millionaire,Pans Labyrinth,Chocolat and the Big lebowski. Thanks for the chance. EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED!!
Pride and Prejudice
Slumdog Millionaire
No Country for Old Men
The Big Lebowski
Thanks!!
Shaun of the Dead ,Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ,ER – The Complete Third season,Harry Potter and the Sorcerer\’s Stone (
Slumdog Millionaire, Australia, Freddy vs Jason and Shaun of the Dead.
1. Spirited Away (miyazaki is a genius !)
2. Shaun of the Dead
3. A Hard Days Night
4. The Ninth Gate ( I think Johnny Depp is the best actor of his generation)
Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf or Death
Spirited Away
Slumdog Millionaire
Fawlty Towers – The Complete Series
slumdog millionaire
australia
the ninth gate
pans labyrinth
Pride and Prejudice
A Hard Day’s Night
Chocolat
Life is Beautiful
Hard to choose only four but I’ll go with these : Snatch, Labyrinth,
Kung Fu Panda, The Others. Nice variety there.
Slumdog millionaire was a classic.
I watched and enjoyed Man On Wire
Slumdog Millionaire, Shaun of the Dead, Australia and Chocolat!
I have watched and enjoyed Spirited Away, Amelie, Chocolat, and Amazing Grace!
thanks
Great list. I like Princess Monoke, Shaun of the Dead, The Big Lebowski, and Amelie.
Princess Mononoke, Slumdog Millionaire, Mongol, Sin Nombre-this was the best
Pride & Prejudice
Australia
A Hard Day’s Night
No Country For Old Men
My favorite was Australia!