Vocals are indeed lush, right back to ROL/Music era when she was really giving it her all.

^Yes, it really does remind me of her slow songs from ROL/Music era. Reminds me of Time Stood Still as well. I'm listening to Masterpiece over and over again and it's stirring all sorts of emotions in me.

Never heard of Time Stood Still :lol:

^ :lol: Dun worry about it. I'm sure there are Madonna songs I haven't heard b4 as well!

I think I found it, it was from one of her HUGELY successful movies, right? :kink:

I think I found it, it was from one of her HUGELY successful movies, right? :kink:

:lol: Yes, so successful they wanted it to go strtaight to video!

 

:lol: Yes, so successful they wanted it to go strtaight to video!

 

AH yes, successful enough to forget about DVD.

And just as we are talking about her HUGELY succesful movie career, look what I found :

 

In Honor Of W.E. , M's 5 best moments on screen.

Official Poster

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Madonna admires Kate Middleton's style

 

Madonna, a notorious Anglophile, highly approves of Kate Middleton's style.

'She is a lovely girl with a great sense of style,' the Material Girl told People at a screening of 'W.E.' at the MoMA on Sunday. 'Her wedding dress by Alexander McQueen was very beautiful...I like her choices. She’s elegant and still knows how to have some fun. I’m a fan of her style.'

Madonna's statement is surprising because, apart from their mutual love of McQueen, Madge's look has very little in common with Middleton's. While Madonna is known for wearing cone-shaped bras and, more recently, a lot of leotards sans pants, Middleton is about prim, proper and covered-up attire, often at an affordable price point.

But despite her adoration for the Duchess of Cambridge, Madonna is even more taken with Wallis Simpson, the American divorcee who King Edward VIII fell in love with and eventually abdicated the throne to marry. Simpson, known for her pin-curled hair and flapper style, is at the center of 'W.E.,' which Madonna co-wrote and directed. The movie tells Simpson's story, interweaving it with a contemporary tale of a New York woman who is inspired by Simpson.

Madonna said of Simpson, 'She developed a style and stuck with it whether people were interested or not. I admire her individuality.'

But Madonna is glad that today's British royalty has more license to be themselves than those in the past.

'The freedom that [Kate] has and the freedom the royal family has now is nice and is refreshing,' Madonna said. 'It’s too bad that Edward VIII didn’t have that same kind of freedom back in 1937 to make his own decisions and to be the prince of the people, which Prince William is allowed to be. I like how modern they are now.'

 

From the New York Post

Joan Collins tweeted :

 

Saw W/E Andrea Riseborough is superb as Mrs Simpson& the costumes are divine.

I bet she didn't pay to see it lol. Thanks for posting!.

Slant Magazine Review

 

W.E. does have its share of potential camp moments, as when the female doubles (wasn’t this what Desperately Seeking Susan was about?), Wally and Wallis, cross time and meet each other in the same space so one can offer the other existential advice (the face is the most important thing, but you make the most with what you got), or when someone delivers a line such as, “Do you think we can change our own destiny?” Yet Madonna handles this film like a masterful aesthetician. The absolutely enthralling soundtrack patches everything together along with the grainy handheld close-ups that tend to follow every establishing shot. This last strategy, which could have easily become a sort of visual tic or editing cop-out, becomes a consistent dream-like motif that helps make W.E. a multi-sensorial frisson. 3 out of 4 stars

Movieline Review

Even though it’s something of a slick mess, Madonna’s W.E. is just the kind of movie you’d expect from an artist who once, with a delightful lack of irony, declared herself a material girl. A weirdly sympathetic portrait of Wallis Simpson, the woman for whom a king gave up his throne, W.E. is the story of a life told through stuff: Evening gloves, cocktail shakers, baubles from Cartier, little hats trimmed with netting. It’s as if Madonna went back in time and forgot to talk to actual people, to find out how they lived and what they thought — but she sure did a lot of shopping.

Time Review

The director’s debut effort, the 2008 Filth and Wisdom, was at least recognizably Madonna in its tale of a pole dancer and a man in dominatrix drag. W.E. is a failure of less significance: a botched episode of Masterpiece Theater crossed with a lethargic indie angst-othon.

 

“W.E.,” Madonna’s second go at directing a feature film, leaves one wishing she’d find other creative outlets for those times when she’s bored with the pop-star life. A new fashion line? Another documentary disassembling her latest truths and dares? Los Angeles Times

 

No matter her audacity, the Material Girl is only as good as her material, and Madonna has only half a movie here. Reuters

I bet she didn't pay to see it lol. Thanks for posting!.

 

lol I swear I thought the same thing when i read the tweet!

 

That kinda things bugs the hell out of me when you get x factor wannabes who have only been in the public eye a few weeks and / or any old sad act going to free advents to get there themselves a little more press.

I bet she didn't pay to see it lol. Thanks for posting!.

 

Course not, this is JOAN COLLINS darling :P

It always makes me laugh why should people who are famous for whatever reason (most of them for bugger all) get to go free events lol. I do include Madonna in this too!. (Clearly it's all about promotion but still).

If I was famous I would want freebies :P its their benefits I guess. Like big CEO's get company cars.