Its primarily a cop procedural about the murder of a family in postkatrina new orleans. Dec 04, 2009 directed by werner herzog, bad lieutenant. Herzogs maniacal movie refuses to flinch as it gleefully leaps into an underworld of degradation and despair in. May 20, 2010 bad lieutenant abel ferraras crazed tale of a crackaddled cop turns into something totally different albeit equally deranged in werner herzogs funky, surreal reboot. 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. Terrence mcdonagh is a new orleans police sergeant, who recieves a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during hurricane katrina. Windjammer a blend of tropical juices combined with two kinds of rum and assorted. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comic. We get a few interview remarks from herzog and nicolas cage, but most of it takes a flyontheset approach that conveys a sense of the actual production process. Though theres a legitimate attempt to engage with new orleans postkatrina, the tone is one. Nicolas cage steps into harvey keitels mold of a corrupt and drugaddled police officer, with the scummy setting moving from new york city to new orleans.
Port of call new orleanscaught on tape,the bad lieutenant. Making a bad movie this good is harder than it looks. After suffering a spinal injury in the line of work, newly. Anonymous after katrina, police sergeant terence mcdonagh rescues a prisoner, hurts his back in the process and earns a promotion to lieutenant plus an addiction to cocaine and painkillers. It makes no attempt to show that city of legends in a flattering light. This 31minute documentary moves us through filming chronologically. Director werner herzogs career is a catalog of extremes, and bad lieutenant.
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. Port of call new orleans, which is loosley based the original film. There were 4 other movies released on the same date, including planet 51, the blind side and the twilight saga. This tidbit of information appears in the closing credits of herzogs bad lieutenant. What follows is a wholly indescribable mishmash of the slick and the stank, the cool and the campy. Jun 01, 2011 nicolas cage steps into harvey keitels mold of a corrupt and drugaddled police officer, with the scummy setting moving from new york city to new orleans. The good news though is that after a multiyear absence from movie screens hes finally returned in werner herzogs bad lieutenant. The official international title is the bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleans follows a crooked cop nicolas cage who is a drug addict and takes sexual favors for bribes. A drugabusing cop nicolas cage probes the slayings of five illegal immigrants from senegal. 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.
Nov 19, 2009 when i first read about bad lieutenant. Released by promotional release in 2009 containing music from bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleans in werner herzogs new film bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleans opens with the image of a snake swimming through the flood waters of new orleans, and youll have go a long way to find a more apt metaphor to kick off a picture with. Port of call new orleans 2009 soundtrack all movie soundtracks. Shot in postkatrina new orleans presumably so that herzog could take advantage of an atmosphere of decay and wreckage that no production design could match, bad lieutenant stars nicolas cage as terence mcdonagh, a cop who. Port of call new orleansfull movie,the bad lieutenant. While tracking down drug kingpin big fate, mcdonagh engages in his vices of gambling, drugs and sex sometimes at the same time. Port of call new orleans is a 2009 american crime drama movie.
Due to his heroic act, mcdonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. Werner herzog and eva mendes at an event for bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleanstrailer,the bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleans, tacitly addresses this dilemma. The high point of cages manic, drugfueled, playbyhisownrules bad cop. It has nicolas cage playing a bad lieutenant who bullies people, abuses heroin, painkillers and cocaine and is corrupt on many levels. Nov 23, 2009 the good news though is that after a multiyear absence from movie screens hes finally returned in werner herzogs bad lieutenant. The red turtle a truly unusual cocktail, tart and crisp with a tequila base, of all thingsyet smooth and pleasant. While tracking down drug kingpin big fate, mcdonagh engages in his vices of gambling, drugs and sex. In new orleans, a police lieutenant investigates the killing of five senegalese immigrants. Port of call new orleans is not its title, but the point of it. Imdb reports this subtitle for the remake, but we need to verify this with a reliable source. Pocno is something of a lark, an opportunity for herzog to thumb his nose at genre convention and fuck around with goofy visual conceits like iguanacam and for cage to reach a new stratosphere of overthetop. Whether hes robbing clubgoers of their heroin or smoking crack with the bad guys hes.
Im not sure what the whole film amounts to, and im not sure it amounts to anything. Like new orleans cuisine, it finds that you can put almost anything in a pot if you add the right spices and peppers and simmer it long enough. 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. Port of call new orleans and its actually a remake. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. The movie is similar to but neither a sequel nor remake for abel ferraras 1992 classic movie bad lieutenant, which starred harvey keitel. Terence mcdonagh oscar winner nicolas cage is a drug and gamblingaddled detective in. The biggest new release of the week is bad lieutenant.
Though the films title resembles that of abel ferraras 1992 film bad lieutenant, it is neither a sequel nor a remake. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of. Eventually they came to a compromise and combined both titles into one. Port of call new orleans as it wasnt really a remake, though almost everything in. Werner herzog wanted to call the film port of call. Port of call new orleans, nicolas cage plays a rogue detective who is as devoted to his job as he is at scoring drugs while playing fast and loose with the law. This point is made ironically clear in the first moments of bad lieutenant. He has a nasty painkiller addiction, courtesy of an injury he sustained while rescuing a. Herzog is always behind the curtain winking at you, even during the most distasteful scenes. Port of call, new orleans is not about plot, but about seasoning.
Mcdonagh smokes crack, has public sex, shoots his gun. Nicolas cage terence mcdonagh, eva mendes frankie donnenfield, val kilmer stevie pruit, alvin xzibit joiner big fate, fairuza balk heidi, shawn hatosy armand benoit, jennifer. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of. He wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way. Port of call new orleans and bad lieutenant 1992 film back to bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleans 2009 terence mcdonagh nicolas cage isnt doing so well. Terence mcdonagh is a drug and gamblingaddled detective in postkatrina new orleans investigating the killing of five senegalese immigrants. Six months later, now promoted to lieutenant, he is a fully fledged addict, sniffing coke and smoking crack at every opportunity, abusing his status. Although the title and the main character would suggest a remake of aber ferraras 1992 bad lieutenant, its not. Alan polsky wanted to tell me a story about how werner herzog held a gun to his head and shattered his brother gabes eye socket with the butt of the pistol in the middle of shooting bad lieutenant. Cage plays lieutenant terence mcdonagh, a police officer in postkatrina. He later said hed insisted the film be called bad lieutenant.
Port of call new orleans original motion picture soundtrack. There was some nudity in the first bad lieutenant film but no nudity in this one. Port of call new orleans movie synopsis, view the movie trailer, get cast and crew information, see movie photos, and more on. New orleans, but the producers wanted to call the film the bad lieutenant they had purchased remake rights to the 1992 film bad lieutenant and wanted to make a franchise. Port of call, new orleans creates a dire portrait of a rapist, murderer, drug addict, corrupt cop and degenerate paranoid whos very apprehensive about iguanas. 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. Bad lieutenant abel ferraras crazed tale of a crackaddled cop turns into something totally different albeit equally deranged in werner herzogs funky, surreal reboot.
Port of call new orleans, but that was just wishful thinking. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of african immigrants. Polynesian in nature, just the thing to let your worries cast adrift. Then theres the coke before entering a crime scene, and the crack while. Directed by 1 writing credits 1 cast 98 produced by 12. Port of call new orleansin elevator prank,the bad lieutenant.
Port of call new orleans features nicolas cage as terence mcdonaugh, a rogue detective investigating the killing of five senegalese immigrants in post. May 22, 2010 he later said hed insisted the film be called bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleans was released in 2009 on friday, november 20, 2009 in 27 theaters. Despite being touted as a remake or sequel to the 1992 film bad lieutenant, the director werner herzog insists that this is an original work only vaguely following the same story of a drug addicted and violent police detective surrounded by crime and sex. Next and most significant comes the making of bad lieutenant. To further celebrate their partnership, mcdonagh implores big fate to smoke crack cocaine with his lucky crack pipe. Abel ferraras 1992 bad lieutenant may have made a moderat. Download georgia rule full movie divx dvd ipod pda. Nov 20, 2009 making a bad movie this good is harder than it looks. Port of call new orleans has been done to twisted perfection. It places him in a devastated new orleans not long after hurricane katrina. 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.
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