Monday, April 25, 2011 9:32AM - By Tom von Logue Newth
For all his life Werner Herzog has been seeking out the unvisited, the unseen and in some cases, the unimagined, to capture them on film with all the wonder and edge-of-the-world danger that have been his unabated inspiration. One of the least accessible and most fascinating places on the planet (also full of dangerous gas!) is the cave system at Chauvet, where only 17 years ago cave paintings were discovered that were twice as old as the previous oldest known. The French government shut it up tight, allowing limited scientific access and, for brief periods last year, Werner Herzog. With a 3D camera no less.
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010 1:46PM - By Mali Elfman
In a recent Twitter interview with Werner Herzog for the DVD release of his film My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? David Lynch tweeted in (like he does) asking Werner to “share the story of when Werner bravely saved Joaquin Phoenix‘s life”and Werner so kindly and simply told one of the best, random film stories to date.
Not long after First Look posted the video of Werner answering the question, the very talented Sascha Ciezata approached the company about creating an animated version of Herzog’s incredible tale using the audio from the social media press day.
Check out Ciezata’s animation and Werner’s original response 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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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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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 10:34AM - By Mali Elfman
Wow. Leave it to Werner Herzog, a director known as much for being crazy personality as his crazy pieces of art, to bring us a greek tragedy set in modern day. He has just finished his second of two films and not long after we get the trailer for his first film, Bad Lieutenant, we now have the trailer for his second project which was produced by David Lynch, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done starring two of my favorite actors Willem Dafoe and Michael Shannon.
Watch the trailer below…
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