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2009 | 2008
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A Documentary is Just a Feature Film In Disguise: An Interview with Werner Herzog
14 December 2009 11:15 PM, PST | The Auteurs | See recent The Auteurs news »
Above: Werner Herzog looks into the camera's mouth of madness while Nicholas Cage contemplates insanity on the set of The Bad Lieutenant.
Around the time Tom Waits simultaneously released his albums Alice and Blood Money, he was regularly asked why he was putting out two titles at once? His common reply: “If yer gonna fire up the griddle, you might as well make more than one pancake.”
Werner Herzog seems to have taken a cue from Waits (it’s not hard to imagine the two getting along) with the release of his first two productions in the United States since 1978’s Stroszek. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, a madman’s delusional romp and bayou fever-dream that revolves, reeling, around Nicolas Cage’s highly entertaining—even genius—performance, came out last month. It was followed yesterday by the release of My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, …
Film: Review:My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
10 December 2009 1:30 PM, PST | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
With Werner Herzog’s quickie neo-noir My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done coming along so soon after his flipped-out rendition of Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant, longtime Herzog fans may well wonder whether the grizzled German director is hiding some odd ulterior motive. Produced by David Lynch and written by Herbert Golder, My Son stars Michael Shannon as an unhinged free spirit and part-time actor who kills his mother (Grace Zabriskie) and takes hostages to keep homicide detective Willem Dafoe at bay. The movie follows Dafoe as he interviews witnesses (such as Shannon’s girlfriend, Chloë Sevigny) in …
'Community' recap: Horses, STDs, and Harvey Keitel
3 December 2009 11:17 PM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
I was not in the best of moods last night when Community materialized on my TV. I was exhausted, I had a stubborn headache, and it was approaching 50 degrees outside, which for Angelenos is the equivalent of being trapped on Hoth. Luckily, yesterday's episode, "The Politics of Human Sexuality," was an agreeable affair. The show wasn't top-tier Community, mind you, but it was satisfying enough to snap this blogger out of his funk, and what more could you ask for from a freshman comedy series? While the episode's setting of a school Std fair didn't set up its humor as effectively as, …
- John Young
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans - We speak to Nicolas Cage and Werner Herzog.
23 November 2009 5:25 AM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Born to be Bad (Together). Nicolas Cage & Werner Herzog on 'Bad Lieutenant.' Being bad, or completely believable at playing bad, gives Nicolas Cage the ability to sit back on a sofa at an all-white interior, ultramodern rooftop bar and command complete silence from the workers preparing for the pending evening shift. Hollywood hits like the "National Treasure" movies have made the 45-year-old Californian famous but the artistic freedom he discusses has more to do with edgier choices, like his latest film, "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" (currently in select theaters and expanding nationwide). In the film, something of a remake of Abel Ferrara's 1992 indie drama, Cage plays Terence McDonagh, a decorated New Orleans police detective steadily losing his grip on reality to drugs. "Bad Lieutenant" has become a critics' hit at fall film fests in Venice and Toronto (where we recently caught up with the modishly …
Box Office Beat Down: The Twilight Saga: New Moon Earns $140 Million
22 November 2009 6:02 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Weekend Box Office
1) The Twilight Saga: New Moon - $140 million
2) The Blind Side - $34.5 million
3) 2012 - $26.5 million
4) Planet 51 - $12.6 million
5) Disney's a Christmas Carol - $12.2 million
6) Precious - $11 million
7) The Men Who Stare at Goats - $2.7 million
8) Couples Retreat - $1.9 million
9) The Fourth Kind - $1.7 million
10) Law Abiding Citizen - $1.6 million
The Twilight Saga: New Moon, which is the sequel to the ridiculously successful 2008 teen-vampire film Twilight based on the books by Stephanie Meyer, took a real big bite out of its competition this weekend to take the number one spot in the box office. The film, which was released on 4,024 screens made an amazing $34,965 per screen for a record setting $140 million opening weekend total, putting it third in all time opening weekend tallies right behind The Dark Knight and Spider-Man 3, respectively. However the Sandra Bullock football film, The Blind Side based on the true story of NFL Offensive Lineman Michael Oher, …
Kurt Loder Reviews 'Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans'
20 November 2009 9:30 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
From MTV.Com: Do fish have dreams? Do they dream of ominous iguanas, perhaps? Or maybe the disembodied breakdancing souls of freshly capped gangsters? More to the point, will Nicolas Cage ever make another movie that makes sense? Judging by his new one, "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," and considering his current financial straits, the prospects seem dim.
The director — the esteemed Werner Herzog, stupefyingly enough — claims never to have seen Abel Ferrara's original 1992 "Bad Lieutenant," and I think we can take him at his word. The Ferrara movie, which I'd recommend seeing before — or better yet instead of — this one, concerns a viciously bent New York City cop; and Harvey Keitel, in the title role, is the embodiment of rank, skeezy corruption. In Herzog's take on the story, the action has been relocated, for no reason at all, to New Orleans, "in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. …
- Kurt Loder
'Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans': Drug Bust, By Kurt Loder
20 November 2009 7:46 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
Nicolas Cage is ill-served by this very silly movie.
Xzibit and Nicolas Cage in "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans"
Photo: Millennium Films
Do fish have dreams? Do they dream of ominous iguanas, perhaps? Or maybe the disembodied breakdancing souls of freshly capped gangsters? More to the point, will Nicolas Cage ever make another movie that makes sense? Judging by his new one, "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," and considering his current financial straits, the prospects seem dim.
The director — the esteemed Werner Herzog, stupefyingly enough — claims never to have seen Abel Ferrara's original 1992 "Bad Lieutenant," and I think we can take him at his word. The Ferrara movie, which I'd recommend seeing before — or better yet instead of — this one, concerns a viciously bent New York City cop; and Harvey Keitel, in the title role, is the embodiment of rank, skeezy corruption. In Herzog's take on the story, …
[Movie Review] Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
20 November 2009 1:38 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
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, …
- Arya Ponto
Nicolas Cage: The Hollywood Interview
19 November 2009 11:43 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Nicolas Cage: Bad To The Bone
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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, …
- The Hollywood Interview.com
Seven More "Remakes" We'd Love Werner Herzog To Direct
19 November 2009 4:50 PM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Controversy has followed Werner Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" right from the start. When word got to director Abel Ferrara that his original "Bad Lieutenant" film was being remade by Herzog and star Nicolas Cage, the outspoken director wished the other outspoken director would "die in hell." Herzog's response? "I have no idea who Abel Ferrara is. But let him fight the windmills, like Don Quixote." To which Ferrara shot back, "I'd rather chase windmills than steal other people's ideas. It's lame."
Ferrara's protectiveness is understandable, but his outrage is a little excessive, particularly given that, as Herzog's insisted all along, the new film is a remake in title only. The central premise may belong to Ferrara; this particular execution, with its sweaty atmosphere and iguana hallucinations, is all Herzog. The result is like watching a jazz musician riff on someone else's composition. You appreciate both …
- Matt Singer
Film: Review:Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans
19 November 2009 12:05 PM, PST | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Not since Snakes On A Plane has the line between movie and Internet meme been as confused as it is with Werner Herzog and Nicolas Cage’s remake of the Abel Ferrara shocker Bad Lieutenant. When the project was first announced at Cannes, it immediately triggered reaction along the lines of “What kind of crazy train wreck is that going to be?” And once the wondrously insane teaser trailer went viral, it turned into, “Oh, that kind of a crazy train wreck.” So what about the movie? Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans—the subtitle makes it charmingly unwieldy …
Ask Him Again, His Soul is Still Dancing. 15 minutes with Werner Herzog.
19 November 2009 11:53 AM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
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, …
cinemadaily | Herzog’s “Bad Lieutenant” Docks in Us
19 November 2009 8:41 AM, PST | IndieWIRE | See recent indieWIRE news »
Werner Herzog’s rough remake of the Abel Ferrara’s 1992 film “Bad Lieutenant,” “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans” is heading to Us waters, after screenings in Venice and Toronto. David Edelstein of New York Magazine tackles the film, “In Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (a sequel to Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant in name only), [Nicholas Cage] plays Terence McDonagh, whose back is injured as he saves a prisoner … …
Nicolas Cage Takes On 'Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans' Haters
19 November 2009 2:30 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
'Outside of the fact that the cop does drugs, it's quite different,' actor says to fans of the original.
Nicolas Cage in "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans"
Photo: Millennium Films
Los Angeles — Seventeen years ago, the legendary Harvey Keitel launched the second act of his movie career with a pair of tough-guy instant classics: Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" and Abel Ferrara's "Bad Lieutenant." A crack-pipe-smoking breath of fresh air, "Lieutenant" predated "The Shield" by a decade in telling the Nc-17 story of a junkie, gambler, killer cop on a downward spiral.
During the past year, film buffs have been up in arms over director Werner Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans." Starring Nicolas Cage as the type of at-wit's-end madman who puts a gun to an old lady's temple to get information, the flick co-stars Eva Mendes and Val Kilmer …
When Remakes Look Awesome: Zhang Yimou's "Blood Simple" Redo Has a Trailer, Rap Song
18 November 2009 11:45 AM, PST | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
The term remake has predominantly negative connotations, but once in awhile we see proof that a redo can be a good thing. Just look at Werner Herzog's new film, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, which isn't quite a remake of Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant so much as it's a stand-alone sequel or simply another filmmaker's take on the same sort of character explored in the original. It's enough to make me wish we could have seen what Spielberg and Will Smith's version of Oldboy would have looked like.
And here's another perfect example of a good remake: Zhang Yimou's version of the Coen Brothers' neo-noir cult classic Blood Simple, which Peter excitedly wrote about back in July. The film now has a title, The First Gun (aka Amazing Tales: Three Guns), and an international trailer, which shows us just how different Zhang's version is. The Chinese filmmaker, …
- Christopher Campbell
Werner Herzog: The Movieline Interview
18 November 2009 7:00 AM, PST | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
You might expect a legendary director like Werner Herzog to have an intimidating presence; after all, Herzog often seems to be drawn to incredibly outsized lead characters, and his films like Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo are volatile feats in themselves. When I met with Herzog this month, however, he was friendly and charming, quick to smile and even eager to tease. His newest film is the Nicolas Cage starrer Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, and if that title recalls the 1992 Abel Ferrara film Bad Lieutenant that inspired it, rest assured that Herzog has made a loopy crime drama that stands on its own.
During our conversation, Herzog had plenty to say about drugs, film school, casting, Cage, and women, and he said all of it in his own delightful, inimitable way. For as much fun as Lieutenant is to watch, it's even more fun to talk to its maker. …
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans review (4/5) - Herzog and Cage make a perfect pair.
18 November 2009 6:25 AM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Imagine singing iguanas. Picture these lizards crooning to a neurotic New Orleans cop played to over-the-top perfection by Nicolas Cage. Then, thank the courageous mind of Munich-born director Werner Herzog for making the corrupt cop thriller "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" one of the boldest and most enjoyable movie surprises of the year. Herzog has said repeatedly that "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" is not a remake of Abel Ferrara's 1992 cop drama but a different film that happens to share the famous title. He's right on one thing. Unlike Ferrara's movie, Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant" generates huge laughs and a wonderful sense of mania all its own. Cage plays Terence McDonagh, a celebrated New Orleans police detective steadily losing his sanity due to drugs. Eva Mendes is McDonagh's pretty love interest, the cliché hooker with a heart of gold. Val Kilmer is McDonagh"s frustrated partner. …
Dancing Souls
18 November 2009 5:57 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
Envy me, because Werner Herzog's "The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" is more fun to write about than it is to watch, and it is barrel-of-monkeys fun to watch. Everything about it is wrong, so wrong that categorizing it that way is meaningless, but wrong nonetheless, down to its title (that awkward "the" on the film's opening title card, that anachronistic and irrelevant "port of call," the subtitle itself, erroneously suggesting sequel-hood, etc.).
Of course, the film has no relation to the 1992 Abel Ferrara film, except it involves a police detective who is "bad," insofar as he dopes, gambles and isn't very effective as a cop. In the first film, the character's self-immolation was an existential passion; here it's... I don't know what it is. Herzog was brought on as a director-for-hire (which is very wrong, in the grand cultural scheme of things), after screenwriter William Finkelstein ("Doogie Howser, …
- Michael Atkinson
Werner Herzog Exclusive Interview Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans
17 November 2009 10:57 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
When I first heard director Werner Herzog and Nicolas Cage were going to make a remake/re-imagining /reboot of Abel Ferrara’s insane 1992 film Bad Lieutenant, I’ll admit I wasn’t excited. For some reason I thought they’d fuck it up or the movie would be another Nicolas Cage performance where he was just going through the motions
I couldn’t have been more wrong. The fact is, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is a great movie featuring one of Nicolas Cage’s best performances. He’s absolutely fearless; it’s like he stepped back in time to when he was an up-and-coming actor with nothing to lose. If you want to see a great performance, you need not go any further Nicolas Cage’s latest role.
So when I sat down to talk with director Werner Herzog, we discussed how he got involved, working with Cage, …
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Werner Herzog: The Hollywood Interview
17 November 2009 10:22 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
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 …
- The Hollywood Interview.com
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