Nicolas cage celebrity profile check out the latest nicolas cage photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes. Port of call new orleans is neither a remake of nor a sequel to bad lieutenant, ferraras 1992 exercise in drugs, sleaze and catholic angst, with harvey. As exciting as the prospect wasand the loveably unwieldy title bad lieutenant. Although the title and the main character would suggest a remake of aber ferraras 1992 bad lieutenant, its not. Mcdonaghs one good deed of the film comes in the first scene when he is. Nov 20, 2009 iguana alligator footage by werner herzog. Port of call new orleans, it was described as a sequel to bad lieutenant, abel ferraras 1992 cult favorite about a drug and gamblingaddicted police. The hurt locker the first great iraq war film proves so universal that it. Port of call new orleans, werner herzogs demonrich. He also pulls over a couple of teenagers, ostensibly on suspicion of passing drugs, and takes some drugs from the guy. The pedantic branch of academia, the so called film studies, in its attempt to do damage to cinema, will be.
His souls still dancing cut to the soul doing a big break dance. With the year drawing to a close i thought id draw my first year of music in the movies to a close in the same way it started with a look back at the best movie songs of the year. But the press corps who gathered for the venice film festival world premiere of herzogs bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleans taking great pains to point out that it was neither a remake nor a follow up. Its definitely the best actordirector fit since well, since werner herzog and klaus kinski. Port of call new orleans synopsis a drugabusing cop nicolas cage probes the slayings of five illegal immigrants from senegal. Bad lieutenant port of call new orleans downloadable video.
Terence mcdonagh oscar winner nicolas cage is a drug and gamblingaddled detective in postkatrina new orleans investigating the killing of five senegalese immigrants. With the exception of into the abyss, his study on the death penalty, his most explicitly politi. Additionally, producers seemed to have added bad lieutenant to the title in order to get a better marketing. New orleans dvd 2010 very strong content and well played the lieutenant is addicted to drugs played by nicolas cage he is, in his roll, a very foul leader of crimes in order to lead this chosen path. Port of call new orleans, was released in 2009, seventeen years after the first films release. Port of call new orleans where nic cage walks of the house with a smug grin on his face and says i love it. Port of call new orleans, which opened last friday, starring nicholas cage, is quite predictable even in its unpredictability. Port of call new orleans succeeds brilliantly as failure, as herzog and the terrifically inept nicolas cage manipulate the conventions of the police genre for their own personal amusement, foregoing the standard tedium of inflated narrative tension and scoredriven suspense in favor of moments. In this book devoted to the film, renowned photographer lena herzogs.
New orleans contributor names werner herzog director. For a start, the ferrara film was perfectly fine left alone and. You need to stop what youre doing, get in your car, on the train, on the bus, on your feet, whatever and get down to the theater and see bad lieutenant. The ungainly title suggests a sequel to the 1992 abel ferrara cult classic, and the story still involves a drugaddled rogue cop up to his eyeballs in trouble. Club about nicolas cage, new orleans, and his new rogue film school. While tracking down drug kingpin big fate, mcdonagh engages in his vices of. Youll go a long way to find anything playing right now thats as downright peculiar as werner herzogs the bad lieutenant. James gunn shared a list of movie sequels he feels are. The dancing soul scene is an obvious homage to herzogs early classic.
Herzog is always behind the curtain winking at you, even during the most distasteful scenes. Nov 19, 2009 when i first read about bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleans is not its title, but the point of it. It is showcased by one of the biggest stars in hollywood nicholas cage and joined together by eva mendes, jennifer coolidge, tom bower, val kilmer, xzibit, and brad dourif. It takes alot to make up for ghost rider, national treasure and all that shit, but this and knowing might do it.
Cage insists that the boss hoodlums soul is still dancing, and sure enough we see it, breakdancing around the room, although now equipped with a mohawk hairdo. All media animation western anime comic book fan fics film game literature music. Both bad lieutenant films were produced by edward r. Port of call new orleans evil dead 2 shrek 2 the dark knight. The biggest selling release of the week is the lord of the rings the theatrical trilogy on bluray, but the extended edition has already been announced. And indeed, the new film has much in common with some of herzogs crazed past masterworks like aguirre, the wrath of god 1972 and fitzcarraldo 1982. Thats the one where they shoot the guy and he sees his soul dancing. It was described as being neither a sequel nor a remake. Port of call new orleans sounds as if it belongs alongside lost boys. Bad lieutenant, werner herzog, 122 mins 18 the independent.
In brief, werner herzog has checked into new orleans, and metaphysical despair has been loosed upon bourbon street. He wanted to suspend cages dreamy, manic or tormented face in front of us for so long it would become a landscape and a story in itself and allow cineastes to get harvey keitel. I can see his soul dancing kennystrapqueen south park. If youre interested in either of the two insane pieces of cinema werner herzog completed this year, youve probably seen the crudely cut, salestype trailer for bad lieutenant. As one might expect of herzog, the view of humanity on display is less tragic than cynically dismissive, but as one might not expect. Port of call new orleans, which mostly consists of getting high and getting laid. Jun 01, 2011 abel ferraras cult crime drama bad lieutenant is given a sister film with this werner herzoghelmed production that takes its inspiration from the original, but focuses on new characters and. Its primarily a cop procedural about the murder of a family in postkatrina new orleans. The film was directed by werner herzog and stars nicolas cage and eva mendes. The film is a quasiremake of abel ferraras infamous 1992 film, which. This point is made ironically clear in the first moments of bad lieutenant. Val kilmer is still your huckleberry and your mark twain. Port of call new orleans is a 2009 american crime drama film directed by werner herzog and starring nicolas cage, eva mendes, tom bower, jennifer coolidge, alvin xzibit joiner, val kilmer, and brad dourif. Dec 06, 2009 awesome scene from the bad lieutenant.
Bad lieutenant may be a fairly conventional police thriller but it also becomes the story of one mans journey towards. Port of call new orleans, tacitly addresses this dilemma. This includes the ideas for the scenes at the beginning and at the end aquarium, the dancing soul scene, the. After suffering a spinal injury in the line of work. Werner herzog, now playing at angelika film center in the press notes for his new film, bad lieutenant. Back 2 tha hood on the straighttovideo shelf on paper, nearly everything bodes. Im not sure what the whole film amounts to, and im not sure it amounts to anything. Port of call new orleans what an ungainly title for a movie. Jenny from forrest gump becomes this in her adulthood, and a rather tragic example at that. Port of call new orleans nicolas cage, eva mendes, val kilmer, fairuza balk, vondie curtis hall, alvin xzibit joiner, shawn hatosy, jennnifer coolidge, denzel whitaker, irma p.
Explore our collection of motivational and famous quotes by authors you know and love. Port of call new orleans is set during the months after. Port of call new orleans is such an insane affront to the original films dour, earnest tone that im amazed the title was allowed to stand. Port of call new orleans is a dark, edgy crime drama with a convoluted plot that goes to some extreme places. Werner herzogs remake of bad lieutenant is a bizarre triumph in which nicolas cage gives his best performance for. The wonderfully mad world of nicolas cage telegraph. While tracking down drug kingpin big fate, mcdonagh engages in his vices of gambling, drugs and sex sometimes at the same time, getting high off of everything from marijuana to prescription painkillers and betting heavily on. Bad lieutenant downloadable video tulsa citycounty. Port of call new orleans, their first movie together, does not disappoint.
Port of call new orleans as it wasnt really a remake, though almost everything in my summary of the plot of the original is in. According to director werner herzog in paul cronins interview book, some of the most. Herzogs maniacal movie refuses to flinch as it gleefully leaps into an underworld of degradation and despair in. Although being promoted as a remake of bad lieutenant 1992 during its early production, director werner herzog claims that this is not a remake.
Port of call new orleans, made in 2009 by werner herzog, follows terrence mcdonagh played by nicolas cage, a police officer in postkatrina new orleans, as he investigates the deaths of five senegalese immigrants connected to a drug ring. Shoot him again, his soul is still dancing bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleans, director werner herzog dismisses comparisons to abel ferraras original bad lieutenant. Its a great film, with a brilliant performance from cage and some equally memorable moments his soul is still dancing but the tone is much more palatable, cages off the rails lieutenant is played for manic. In 2009 renowned auteur werner herzog directed nicholas cage in bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleans 2009 no more drugs for that man. It gives us a lead character thats as immoral as they come and whose prime determination in life is to go as far down the downward spiral as life will allow him. The dealers look at the three corpses on the floor.
Terence mcdonagh is a drug and gamblingaddled detective in postkatrina new orleans investigating the killing of five senegalese immigrants. Port of call new orleans is a wild thriller starring cage as a rogue detective battling his demons and searching for justice in the drugrelated murder of senegalese immigrants. You might ask the same questions of the film itself, directed. Port of call new orleans has been done to twisted perfection. This tidbit of information appears in the closing credits of herzogs bad lieutenant. After suffering a spinal injury in the line of work, newly. The wonderfully mad world of nicolas cage famed as much for his eccentricity as his movie roles, anne billson takes a look at some of nicolas cages more bizarre moments. Port of call new orleans, but it might more usefully have. Port of call, new orleans bilingual at a low price. Port of call new orleans is an interesting and entertaining combination of werner herzogs direction and nicolas cages acting, a movie that is a more surreal and energetic take on the kind of corrupt cop story which has been played out in. I love the bad lieutenant port of call new orleans, and it gives me a new respect for nicolas cage. Bad lieutenant and recent comicbook caper kickass slapped down.
Her parental abuse motivating her desire for happiness drives her into becoming. Port of call new orleans has the promise to be the release of all that nastiness buried beneath the sheen of forensics and the longsuffering haze of an alcoholic cop just trying to make a difference. Port of call new orleans will appeal to fans who know the work of germanborn maverick director werner herzog. This shot of the iguanas is filmed by herzog himself. Title is taken directly from the song coffin dance by ajj, and this particular lyric from that song was inspired by that one scene from bad lieutenant. He says he has never seen the original and therefore does not consider this movie a remake. What it isnt, despite its cumbersome title and narrative similarities, is a remake of abel ferraras scummy 1992 masterpiece.
But nicolas cage, an actor whose juju evaporated years ago in a haze of shitty, multimilliondollar paydays, proves nutty enough for the job in bad lieutenant. A new trailer for werner herzogs grizzly man bad lieutenant. Turns out cage has been stealing drugs from the property room with some help from a beat walker, michael shannon aka dave from cage classic world trade center, if youre attentive. Port of call new orleans heightened that excitement all the morei was nonetheless slightly wary of the final result. Is anybody else a big fan of that scene in bad lieutenant. Cages boss assigns him lead for the investigation into the murder of a senegalese family.
The biggest new release of the week is bad lieutenant. This is also when we learned that madame lalauries old house was once owned by the guy from faceoff, aka nicolas cage, who starred in bad lieutenant. May 22, 2010 he later said hed insisted the film be called bad lieutenant. Like much of the herzogkinski catalogue, its a case study in bugeyed monomania, and like ferraras original, its a descent into the swamplands of the human soul with a drugaddled, quasirighteous, borderlineinsane cop as your tour guide. Port of call new orleans, once again we get the familiar themes of madness and depravity, and although it doesnt quite strike that horrifying kinski vein, it has moments of brilliance thanks to an excellent acting job by nicolas cage. One answer to the question about the films lingering pace may be that herzog really wanted to linger. Pocno fresh off the heels of the hour and a half long boredom parade that was the runner, and holy fucking shit, this movie is how nicolas cage should be used. The top 10 films of 2009, according to ap movie writer david germain. Werner herzogs first americanset fictional feature since stroszek, the canniest use in recent memory of nicolas cages bruisepurple twitchiness, and, pound by pound, arguably the years funniest film. Soul still dancing one of the best scene in this movie. Celebrate nicolas cages 51st birthday with his 51 looniest outofcontext dialogue quotes.
Port of call new orleans succeeds brilliantly as failure, as herzog and the terrifically inept nicolas cage manipulate the conventions of the police genre for their own personal amusement, foregoing the standard tedium of inflated narrative tension and scoredriven suspense in favor of moments of delirious dissonance and. The german arthouse auteur werner herzog broaches the topic of evil in a more thoughtful way in his latest feature film, 2009s bad lieutenant. Though the films title resembles that of abel ferraras 1992 film bad lieutenant, it is neither a sequel nor a remake. This story contains major character death, mentions of a corpse, and a weird semiphysical spirit body along with a brief sexual encounter between a ghost. Port of call new orleans directed by werner herzog.