MADONNA FILTH & WISDOM CINEMA SOCIETY PREMIERE SCREENING LINDSAY LOHAN, JESSICA ALBA

Her highness Madonna took time off from her successful Sticky & Sweet Tour to attend a screening of her directorial debut "Filth and Wisdom".

The film premiered at the Venice Film festival and has received less than favorable reviews. Madonna isn't scared of the critics who have always said she couldn't act and that she can't direct. Jessica Alba showed off her beautiful figure. How did she lose all of the baby weight?

Lindsay Lohan is working on her music career and got a Madonna makeover. Lilo looked like she was desperately trying to be like Madonna. Natural redhead Lindsay went blonde and poodle hair curly with extensions to look like the pop icon. 

Some of the other A list celebs at the screening were America Ferrera, Chace Crawford, Vanessa Williams, Becky Newton and Brooke Shields. Click here for more red carpet photos. Check out the trailer for Filth and Wisdom.

Filth and Wisdom

What vexes me most about “Filth and Wisdom” is the economics. Madonna has been a global star for decades. She has amassed a fortune, much of which presumably remains intact. She can’t have spent all of it on jodhpurs and conical bras. So why, when it came to launching herself as a film director, did she limit her budget to $365.23? Such, at any rate, is my estimate for the funding of “Filth and Wisdom.” If the actors were paid according to their talents, they cannot have cost more than forty bucks. In the case of Richard E. Grant, the one sizable name in the cast, his performance as a tweedy, sightless poet is so embarrassing that I trust he took no payment at all. The only major expense was the lighting: a toy flashlight, I would guess, placed carefully in the corner of each room and angled upward—hence the capering shadows that Andriy casts on his living-room walls. In technical terms, more professional productions than this are filmed and cut on iMovie, by ten-year-olds, a thousand times a day. source