Tuesday, April 6, 2010 7:30AM - By Andrew Payne
After what seemed like an endless stream of great weeks on DVD, all at once they’re falling flat with one of the worst DVD weeks in recent memory. We’re talking a total of one feature film (a small one at that – Bad Lieutenant) and just a smattering of TV on DVD.
There are a couple of Blu-Ray Special Edition releases for you HD Connoisseurs out there, but mostly this looks like a week to enjoy the NCAA Finals, Baseball’s Opening Week, and The Masters.
Still, I suppose you probably prefer DVDs so check out what’s new below…
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Friday, November 13, 2009 2:49PM - By Tom von Logue Newth
The stars of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans - Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes and Jennifer Coolidge – held court in the Four Seasons together with director Werner Herzog last week. The movie got its US premiere at the AFI Festival and the positive reactions there and in Toronto promise a good showing in theaters.
Cage plays a drug-addicted, procedure-ignoring police lieutenant in New Orleans just post-Katrina; Mendes is his high-class prostitute lover; Coolidge is his booze-sodden stepmother; and Werner Herzog is one of the world’s greatest living directors, famed for his visionary features of the seventies (Even Dwarves Started Small, Aguirre Wrath of God, Heart of Glass, tho little to match that work since 1982′s Fitzcarraldo) and for his idiosyncratic documentaries (Little Dieter Needs to Fly, My Best Fiend, Grizzly Man). In response to various members of the press, here’s what they had to say for themselves:
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Friday, November 6, 2009 9:52AM - By Tom von Logue Newth
So the deal is that Edward Pressman, producer of Abel Ferrara’s original Bad Lieutenant, owns the rights to the title and decided the time was right to reuse it with an eye to kick-starting a franchise (he is also currently planning Wall Street 2, and a reboot of The Crow.) He wanted someone unexpected to direct and eyebrows were certainly raised when news filtered out that it was to be crazy German arthouse-favourite Werner Herzog; and in star Nicolas Cage, Herzog may just have found a worthy replacement for his erstwhile muse, the late, great and certifiably insane Klaus Kinski.
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Saturday, October 31, 2009 4:44PM - By Tom von Logue Newth
It is finally upon us – as I type the crowds are thronged outside the Grauman’s Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard for the American Film Institute Film Festival Opening Gala and North American Premiere of Wes Anderson’s stop-motion fable Fantastic Mr Fox (already covered by Screencrave from the London Film Festival – ahead of the game as usual).
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Thursday, October 29, 2009 11:00AM - By Krystal Clark
Katie Chonacas is an up and coming actress and Hollywood producer who’s landed a role in Werner Herzog‘s latest film, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. When the unofficial remake began it’s run on the festival circuit a few months back, it generated plenty of buzz that was good, bad, and everything in between. After speaking to Chonacas it’s fair to say that whatever Herzog has up his sleeve, it’s bound to knock our socks off one way or another.
As a fellow Michigan native, I discovered how she went from the small city of Livonia to working opposite an Academy Award winning actor like Nicolas Cage. The actress explained how she had aspirations of moving to Los Angeles as a young teenager, but got swept up in her love of cross country track. After high school she finally decided to make the move from home and hoped from Toronto, Paris, New York and eventually landed in L.A, where she’s been ever since.
Check out our interview…
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Friday, October 9, 2009 8:23AM - By Krystal Clark
A theatrical trailer for Werner Herzog‘s gritty drama, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans has been released. The film stars Nicolas Cage as the title character, a morally challenged lawman, who while trying to solve a murder exposes his own personal demons which include drug addiction, theft, and gambling. After watching this trailer you can easily see why the film has the word bad in front of the title.
Check out the trailer…
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Friday, September 4, 2009 11:16AM - By Krystal Clark
I just wrote a nice post on how Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is an obvious rip off of Abel Ferrara’s 1992 cult drama Bad Lieutenant. Conveniently a poster for the film has just been released for Werner Herzog‘s remake, I mean “reimagining”of the crime drama. As you can see Nicolas Cage has attached his once credible name to another piece of questionable material.
The following photo highlights the biggest reason I will not see this film in theaters…
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Friday, September 4, 2009 9:55AM - By Krystal Clark
After seeing the trailer for the unofficial reimagining of Bad Lieutenant entitled, Port of Call New Orleans, I got a sharp pain in my stomach. The film stars Oscar winner Nicolas Cage as an alcoholic, drug addicted cop who makes and plays by his own rules. The 1992 original featured Harvey Keitel in the title role, and was directed by Abel Ferrara. Werner Herzog, is helming the newer version, but claims that his film isn’t a remake. I’m not buying it, are you?
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Monday, August 17, 2009 4:15PM - By Krystal Clark
I have to be honest, the original 1992 version of Bad Lieutenant scared me, and this remake is following suit. The original starred Harvey Kietel in the title role of a morally bankrupt law man. While trying to solve a murder he exposes his own personal demons which include drug addiction, theft, and gambling.
In the new version entitled, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Nicolas Cage takes on the lead role, and he terrifies me in every way. View some official production photos below.
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