Dangerous Game

press release: USA | 1993 | 35mm | 105 min.

Director: Abel Ferrara; Cast: Madonna, Harvey Keitel, James Russo  

A film director (Keitel) tries to coax heartfelt performances from an inexperienced would-be starlet (Madonna) and a drug & alcohol abusing leading man (Russo). Ferrara’s meta-meta-movie psychodrama is about the effects of the creative process on the souls of those involved. As film, video, rehearsals, takes, and sex & violence both real and staged blend together; lines are blurred, crossed, redrawn and erased, leaving us with a scathing portrait of filmmaker as unreliable narrator and unhinged orchestrator of chaos. The screening will be followed by a discussion with J.J. Murphy, UW Professor of Film and author of Rewriting Indie Cinema: Improvisation, Psychodrama, and the Screenplay.

Special Presentations: Spring 2018 special presentations include stunning new restorations of Edgar G. Ulmer’s poverty row film noir classic Detour; Andrei Tarkovsky’s Soviet masterpiece Andrei Rublev; and Marcel Pagnol’s delightful humanist comedy, The Baker’s Wife. Plus, Wim Wenders Pina in 3D and Professor J.J. Murphy will present a 35mm print of Abel Ferrara’s Madonna vehicle Dangerous Game and discuss its relevance to his new book, Rewriting Indie Cinema.

Admission free for all screenings, seating limited. No admission 15 minutes after scheduled start times.