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Review - 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'
11 December 2009 3:35 AM, PST
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Starring Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, and Val Kilmer
Directed by Werner Herzog
Rated R
Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is not much like the 1991 Abel Ferrera film Bad Lieutenant,
no matter how similar the names. In fact, Port of Call New Orleans isn't much like anything, really.
Is that a good thing? In this case, it actually is. There's some abiguity about the actions of our bad lieutenant that you'd
probably prefer to be better explained by Herzog, and there are definitely some directorial decisions that are a little strange, but
it's hard not to roll with the punches overall, even if they almost always come out of nowhere.
Port of Call New Orleans is over the top through and through, and when that's the design, there's only one actor you should
consider: Nicolas Cage. And although Cage
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What’s the big deal about Bad Lieutenant?
10 December 2009 1:06 PM, PST
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If you have been following the Alamo at all in the past month or so, you’ve heard us talk (and talk, and talk) about this new Nicolas Cage movie The Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call – New Orleans. All of us who have seen it just can’t stop thinking about the insane hustler Cage plays, and the nonstop fun and intrigue that this film offers. We fought to get this film released in Austin, and we are proud to open it at the Ritz tomorrow night.
Once you see it, you’ll know what we’re talking about. But don’t just take our word for it. Check out what the nation’s critics have to say:
Marjorie Baumgarten of the Austin Chronicle says: “I think I had more fun watching Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (twice) than I did at any other movie this year.”
Wesley Morris
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Cameron Diaz Will Be Your ‘Bad Teacher’
10 December 2009 6:35 AM, PST
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After several failed attempts at drama (The Box comes to mind), Cameron Diaz is going back to the well. Back to the raunchy roots that helped launch her acting career with Columbia Pictures' Bad Teacher.
Jake Kasdan (Walk Hard) will direct the flick, which was written by The Office scribes Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupinsky, says Variety. The story follows a foulmouthed, gold-digging middle school teacher who, after getting dumped by her boyfriend, competes with a colleague for the affections of the school's model teacher.
We can only hope that Kasdan and Diaz are taking a page out of the Werner Herzog/Nic Cage book of making 'Bad' movies. I would like to see a sinister, drug-addled teacher who is fleecing students for pot and doing coke off the janitor's broom-handle. I doubt that I will get my wish, but check me if I'm wrong when I say that movie would be awesome. Am
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Mendes 'visits call girls for research'
28 November 2009 6:47 AM, PST
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Eva Mendes has revealed that she visited call girls to prepare for a film role. The actress, who plays a prostitute in the new movie Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call, has said that speaking to the women made her understand the part better. The 35-year-old told TV Movie: "I met with call girls, the type who met clients in grand apartments. I learned quite a bit." Mendes also insisted that she had been looking forward to working with director Werner Herzog. She said: (more)
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Eva Mendes Visited Prostitutes To Know Them Better For Her New Film
27 November 2009 10:26 PM, PST
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The Hollywood actress - who plays a drug-addled hooker in new movie 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call', in which she stars alongside Nicolas Cage – wanted to understand the part better and found speaking to working girls an enlightening experience.
She said: "I met with call girls, the type who met clients in grand apartments. I learned quite a bit."
The 35-year-old Latino star also revealed she had been looking forward to working with e cult director Werner Herzog for the first time.
She told German magazine TV Movie: "I was bitterly disappointed. There were no tantrums, no shouting, no crazy demands. It was almost boring."
Eva recently compared 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call' to Picasso's artwork because it was completely different to her normal work.
She said: "It's like a piece of art to me. It really is. When you go to the museum and you see a Picasso,
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Eva Mendes' prostitute film prep
26 November 2009 10:01 PM, PST
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Eva Mendes visited prostitutes to prepare for a film role. The Hollywood actress - who plays a drug-addled hooker in new movie 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call', in which she stars alongside Nicolas Cage - wanted to understand the part better and found speaking to working girls an enlightening experience. She said: "I met with call girls, the type who met clients in grand apartments. I learned quite a bit." The 35-year-old Latino star also revealed she had been looking forward to working with e cult director Werner Herzog for the first time. She told German magazine TV Movie: "I was bitterly disappointed. There were no tantrums, no shouting, no crazy demands. It was almost boring." Eva recently
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Eva Mendes' call girl research
26 November 2009 10:01 PM, PST
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Eva Mendes visited prostitutes to prepare for a film role. The Hollywood actress - who plays a drug-addled hooker in new movie 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call', in which she stars alongside Nicolas Cage - wanted to understand the part better and found speaking to working girls an enlightening experience. She said: "I met with call girls, the type who met clients in grand apartments. I learned quite a bit." The 35-year-old Latino star also revealed she had been looking forward to working with e cult director Werner Herzog for the first time. She told German magazine TV Movie: "I was bitterly disappointed. There were no tantrums, no shouting, no crazy demands. It was almost boring." Eva recently compared 'Bad
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Pearce Joins The Hungry Rabbit Jumps
25 November 2009 2:35 AM, PST
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Production Weekly has Tweeted the news that, with just two weeks before cameras are set to roll, it'll be Guy Pearce stepping aboard the production of The Hungry Rabbit Jumps, the new thriller from Roger Donaldson.Details of the story are still sketchy, but everyone seems agreed that Nic Cage plays an ordinary guy who turns to a vigilante group to set things right when his wife (January Jones) is assaulted.Our first guess is that Pearce would be playing the leader of the vigilante group - he can certainly pull off dangerous as well as he can do charismatic. But then, he could be playing a cop - as we say, a lot of blanks are yet to be filled in on this one.What we can be sure of, is this project's potential: Cage is on so-hot-right-now form with Bad Lietenant: Port Of Call, New Orleans and Kick-Ass,
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An El Guapo Exclusive! Nicolas Cage And Eva Mendes Review Bad Lieutenant Port Of Call New Orleans!
20 November 2009 4:41 PM, PST
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Not very smart, but it sure is fun.
****Disclaimer**** This review is for entertainment purposes only. Now that Oprah's show is coming to a close, how are we going to know what new books to pick up? Oprah must hate reading. Damn richies.Using my contacts deep within the bowels of Hollywood, I called in a few favors that were owed to me and managed to get two of today's hottest stars to review their own film. Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes are my guest stars in this riveting, honest look at their own work.In this short clip, Nicolas and Eva talk about how the acting was fantastic, but the story wasn't very strong. I must say, it took a lot of courage for these two to come on camera and give me such an exclusive. Make sure you watch till the end, where Nicolas gets a surprise gift from Eva.
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[Movie Review] Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
20 November 2009 1:38 AM, PST
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To call Port of Call New Orleans a remake or a re-imagining of Bad Lieutenant would be a mistake; at least beyond an attempt to drum up publicity, which it definitely received when the original Bad Lieutenant’s director, Abel Ferrara, publicly wished for the deaths of everyone involved in this film. Especially that of its new helmer, the fearless Werner Herzog.
After watching the movie, it would be foolish to overlook the fact that it bears almost no resemblance to Ferrara’s film. It doesn’t even have the same titular character. Despite sharing the same moniker and the same appetite for moral compromise, Nicolas Cage’s goofy Detective McDonagh has a vastly different personality than that of Harvey Keitel’s nameless cult figure.
We first meet Cage’s drug-fueled, money-skimming maniac cop when he’s raiding a precinct’s flooded locker room in the days following Hurricane Katrina,
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- Arya Ponto
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Nicolas Cage: The Hollywood Interview
19 November 2009 11:43 PM, PST
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Nicolas Cage: Bad To The Bone
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Alex Simon
It’s an inevitable event in every accomplished artist’s life: if you go back on the timeline of their existence and stop in adolescence, almost all of our greatest actors, writers, filmmakers, musicians and painters went through tumultuous, tortured teenage years, often scorned, almost universally ridiculed by their peers and elders alike for the cardinal sin of being “weird.” Most people run from their inner nerd as they grow into adulthood, masking it behind toned muscle, fine clothing and the right haircut, struggling to be that cool guy or gal whom we knew had all the answers and the clearest skin back when such things started to be de rigeur in our lives (and if you live in Southern California, continue to be).
Nicolas Cage is that rare movie star who not only never seemed to care if he was cool,
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Ask Him Again, His Soul is Still Dancing. 15 minutes with Werner Herzog.
19 November 2009 11:53 AM, PST
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One of the pleasures of going to film festivals are the Q&A
sessions afterwards. If you read humour pieces regarding this aspect
of the festival experience, they are often snarky little pieces about
the awful questions fielded by audience members, or folks trying to
pass the director along a screenplay or simply blubbering "I love all
your movies" in the starstruck awe. Yes, those things happen (often),
but with good moderation from the programmer/host and an exceptional
speaker, you could end up with something like this quarter hour with
German director Werner Herzog. The second of two public screenings at
the Toronto International Film Festival went down like gangbusters at
the Elgin Theatre and most of the satisfied, quite entertained,
audience stuck around to talk shop. Moderated by programmer Colin
Geddes and with Herzog in high form - while most would say that Roger Ebert is 'fighting cancer,
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Werner Herzog: The Hollywood Interview
17 November 2009 10:22 PM, PST
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Werner Herzog Brings The Music Back
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Academy Award-nominated German film director, screenwriter, actor and opera director Werner Herzog was born Werner H. Stipetić on 5 September 1942 in Munich. His family moved to the remote Bavarian village of Sachrang in the Chiemgau Alps after the house next to theirs was destroyed during bombing towards the close of World War II. When he was twelve, he and his family moved back to Munich. The same year, Herzog was told to sing in front of his class at school and adamantly refused. He was almost expelled for this and until the age of eighteen listened to no music, sang no songs and studied no instruments. He would later say that he would easily give ten years from his life to be able to play an instrument. At fourteen, he was inspired by an encyclopedia entry about film-making which he says provided
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Eva Mendes Says She Will "Never" Appear in Resident Evil: Afterlife
9 November 2009 4:42 AM, PST
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Despite rumors she might appear in Resident Evil: Afterlife as character Excella Gionne, Eva Mendes recently told WENN that she would "never" appear in the film.
When approached about her involvement, Mendes' exact words were "God, no! No, no, no! Never!"
With a career littered with bad decisions such as Ghost Rider, 2 Fast 2 Furious, The Spirit and the upcoming limited release Bad Lietuenant 2: Port of Call New Orleans, when did Mendes become picky?
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Ladies and Gentlemen, A Word from Werner Herzog
6 November 2009 11:31 PM, PST
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Werner Herzog is crazy and brilliant and German. He's had a random and illustrious career which has taken him to South America, Bear Country, The End of the World and now lands him squarely in New Orleans. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans - a remake that's not a remake with a title that looks like it should either involve Martin Lawrence and John Cusack as buddy cops or be stamped on the front of a DVD in the dollar bin - already has buzz surrounding it because 1) Herzog has never seen the film his title borrows from and 2) there is some crazy shit in the trailer.
I was lucky enough to see the flick last week (to the break of dawn), and while a review is forthcoming, I thought I'd share some things that the esteemed director had to say on some of the more questionable elements.
Feel
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Latest MPAA Ratings: Bulletin No: 2094
4 November 2009 11:39 AM, PST
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Here are the new MPAA ratings from Bulletin No: 2094.
$5 A Day
Rated PG-13 For sexual content, brief nudity and language.
Bad Lieutenant Port Of Call New Orleans
Rated R For drug use and language throughout, some violence and sexuality.
Release Date: November 20, 2009
City Of Life And Death
Rated R For wartime violence and atrocities including sexual assault, and for some sexuality and brief nudity.
The Donner Party
Rated R For some violence.
Frozen
Rated R For some disturbing images and language.
Hidden
Rated R For violence, disturbing images and language.
The Joneses
Rated R For language, some sexual content, teen drinking and drug use.
Let God Be The Judge
Rated PG For thematic elements, language and violence.
The Lovely Bones
Rated PG-13 For mature thematic material involving disturbing violent content and images, and some language.
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Perfect Life
Rated R For drug use throughout, sexuality, violence, and pervasive language.
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Chriqui and Kilmer Join War Film
28 October 2009 6:36 AM, PDT
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Here’s a recipe for … well, I’m not sure what dish this will make, but it’ll certainly be interesting: Emmanuelle Chriqui, a recurring actor on Entourage, and Val Kilmer (Tombstone) have joined forces with director Renny Harlin for the leading roles in Georgia, Harlin’s new war film.
According to THR, the film centers around “an American journalist (Kilmer) and his cameraman caught in the crossfire of covering last year’s military conflict between Russia and Georgia … [as well as] a Georgia native (Chriqui) and doctoral student who becomes entangled with them.”
While this certainly doesn’t represent Harlin’s average action fare, I’m not entirely convinced that the man has ever made a good film in his life. When the closest you come to a good film is the lackluster Die Hard 2 or the redeemably cheesy Deep Blue Sea, you know your track record is somewhat worse for the wear.
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Nic Cage's Bad Lieutenant Is Not Going Straight To DVD
26 October 2009 6:39 PM, PDT
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This shouldn.t even be a story but there seems to be confusion where the release of Nic Cage.s new movie Bad Lietenant: Port of Call New Orleans is concerned. Earlier today several different blogs ran stories with headlines like .Bad Lieutenant Headed Straight To DVD!., prompting people to assume that First Look Studios was canceling plans to release it in theaters and simply shoving it out on Home Video. They assumed that because, of course, that.s what .straight to DVD. means. But that.s not the case at all, even though it makes a catchy headline.
Those misleading headlines originated from a rather innocent story on Blu-Ray.com where they.ve announced that the film is coming to the Blu-Ray format in February. Here.s exactly what they said, just to erase any confusion: .First Look Studios is set to release 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New
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30-Second Season of the Witch Teaser
22 October 2009 6:14 AM, PDT
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Thanks to IGN.com, we have our first look at the upcoming Season of the Witch starring Nicolas Cage, albeit a very brief look. 30 seconds isn’t quite enough to differentiate one film from the rest of the crowd, but this does give a good sense of the tone of the film … and Cage’s chosen hairpiece.
Season of the Witch is directed by Dominic Sena (Whiteout, Swordfish) from a script by Bragi F. Schut, who’s a relative unknown. The film deals with a group of knights in the 14th century, who deliver a witch into a monastery in order to determine if her powers might be responsible for the devastating Black Plague. from the look of things, I’d guess they’re on to something. Also, the film co-stars Ron Perlman, who is fantastic in just about everything.
The film is scheduled for release on March 19, 2010. Get excited
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AFI Fest 2009 Line-up
21 October 2009 12:40 AM, PDT
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The complete lineup for the 23rd edition of the American Film Institute (AFI) Fest presented by Audi has been announced. Wes Anderson’s “Fantastic Mr. Fox” has already been announced as the opening night gala. The Weinstein Company’s “A Single Man” will have its Us premiere at the festival’s Closing Night Gala. Sony Pictures Classics’ “The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus” has been selected as the Centerpiece Screening Gala presentation.
The film festival, which will debut it’s groundbreaking “See a Film on Us” initiative featuring complimentary tickets to all films including a limited number of seats at each Gala Presentation, will be headquartered at the historic Grauman’s Chinese Theatre and Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel between October 30 and November 5. AFI Fest will then move to Santa Monica for the final two days of screenings presented in association with the American Film Market (Afm).
AFI Fest 2009 will mark the return
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