A Certain Sacrifice (1979 but released 1985) the movie Madonna doesn't want you to see!

Its like Frankie Goes to Hollywood or something...

Frankie goes to Hollywood to New York to Rocky Horror

[quote] Unsuccessful, she then attempted to ban the film from being seen. Stephen Lewicki invited her to view it; Madonna was reportedly unhappy with the result. According to Lewicki, she had an expression of horror on her face and screamed "Fuck you" as she stormed out of his apartment

R3 damn wish that moment had been caught on camera

R4, apparently, the director loved working with her and said Madonna "had more sensuality in her ear than most women have in their entire bodies". I think it's funny that Madonna was more pissed about the movie than the playboy pics.

What the fuck am I watching?

Yes, I saw this mess many years ago. A local video store had it. I had a few friends over, we watched this dreck and, of course, commented throughout. I also rented The Evil Dead. The Evil Dead was Shakespearean level compared to this trash.

This 'film' is possibly one of the worst indie films ever made. As expected, Madonna was awful.

"The Dark Side of New York" huh? loooool

The dark side of NYC might have been way too much for Miss Michigan. Perhaps she needed to watch some guy getting fisted and pissed on at the Mineshaft to get an idea what "the dark side" was all about.

Her lame posed S&M photos were laughable. Madonna, always the poseur. I guess for flyovers, a transplant like Madonna was considered controversial?

I got as far as Madonna dancing, in agony apparently, around a fountain. Is this a music video?

Would this movie be thought of as "edgy" in 1979 when it was filmed?

R10 Only flyover queens say "flyover". It's a fact.

I remember seeing it and she wasn’t very good in it. I believe it was her first movie.

[quote][R10] Only flyover queens say "flyover". It's a fact.

Oh how wrong you are, not a fact at all, flyover.

Want to argue, ask me anything about NYC. I was born in Bushwick, at a time when all those hipster assholes, trust funders and flyovers now living there, wouldn't have dared set foot in that neighborhood. My family then moved to Long Island City when I was a child. Been living in Soho since 1978. I bought a loft for $25,000.

Since Dump was elected, DL has been permeated with such disgusting nasty queens. Please STFU.

Some guy who lives down the street from Madonna blogged a few years ago about how he walked past her townhouse as the gate was open and she was at the end of the driveway about to get into a car and how she was glaring at him even though he was just minding his own business.

The rape scene in the film was longer, the version up at Vimeo was cut. Unless there was another rape scene in this mess. I remember the rape scene being longer.

It's such an amateur film, but she is watchable and the camera loves her. I miss Madonna's natural face.

This is hilarious. Madonna was never sexy. She was only ever a whore. And she's not even good at that.

It's shit. That is good enough reason not to see it.

The music sequence is hysterical. The singer sounds like a cross between Klaus Nomi and Robert Smith, the females chanting sound like Pulsallama. The movie is so blurry, I can't tell if any of the woman on stage are from Pulsallama. The performance is like a bad night at Danceteria.

The gist of this film, some guy comes from upstate NY to look for some downtown pussy. He ends up raping Madonna's character, then the man is kidnapped and murdered by the lousy band?!

Horrendous, as were many little indie films shot between a group of friends.

But I betcha they had a blast? I sure AF hope they did because that’s all that was coming out of this collaboration... fond memories.

It's like an Abel Ferrara movie mixed with Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

This was made when Jimmy Carter was President. That's how OLD she is.

this is where she honed her award-winning acting skills!

It was shot before Elvis' spirit entered her body

Blueprint of a Legend

No, no one has seen it.

Is there a non-blurry version available somewhere? DVD?

BLU RAY??

I actually bought this DVD at a Rite-Aid once when it was still Eckerd's. It was on clearance. I only watched it once. I made it through less than half of the movie before I donated it to a consignment shop. I stopped watching right after the guy attacks her in the bathroom in the diner.

Can't believe I chose this DVD over a budget box set of classic low budget horror films from the 50's-70's.

Wow, Eckerd’s. Now that’s a blast from the past. The nostalgia is rushing over me. I haven’t heard that name in DECADES.

Really? Because they were still around in the mid 2000's before Rite-Aid took them over.

The CineMadonna review of the movie is more entertaining than the movie itself

I'm waiting for the Criterion edition.

[quote]This is hilarious. Madonna was never sexy. She was only ever a whore. And she's not even good at that.

What I find hilarious is the same people that call her a whore are the ones who drop to their knees to suck anonymous cock and swallow a stranger's sperm in a filthy public toilet.

What I'm struck by is how Madonna's "acting" never really got any better from this movie until her last.

A Certain Sacrifice (1979) - A teen gets herself in a series of circumstances and mishaps in her meaningless existence

It's been 42 years and the only thing that's changed is her age

And your life has more meaning to you than hers does to her, R37?

Masterpiece

R33, I really enjoyed all of his reviews of her work, they're very thoughtful and well done. He also did a really good video of why American Life was the point Madonna's career started its downward trajectory - says a lot of things I agreed with and thought I was the only one.