First Images of Director Werner Herzog’s BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub Posted 3 years, 309 days ago

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Premiering at this year’s Toronto Film Festival is director Werner Herzog’s “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans”. While some may have wondered why they needed to make a new “Bad Lieutenant”, after watching this unofficial trailer, I’m sold. Also, while Nicolas Cage has made a few acting choices that I disagree with in the past few years, I’m still a big fan of his work. Here’s hoping a team up with Werner Herzog will be a good one. Anyway, in about a month we’ll know how it turned out. Until then, take a look at a number of new images from the film.

Here’s the synopsis to “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans”:

Terence McDonagh (Nicolas Cage), a homicide detective with the New Orleans Police Department, is promoted to Lieutenant after he saves a prisoner from drowning in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. However, during his heroic act, he severely injures his back and is put on prescription pain medication. A year later, Terence – struggling with his addictions to sex, Vicodin and cocaine – finds himself in the battle to bring down drug dealer Big Fate, who is suspected of massacring an entire family of African immigrants. The film also stars Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Jennifer Coolidge and Fairuza Balk.

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Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans, Eva Mendes, Fairuza Balk, Jennifer Coolidge, Nicolas Cage, Toronto Film Festival, Val Kilmer, Werner Herzog

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Comments:

Jeff W.

What is that thing on Nic Cage’s head?!?! The horror!!
Jeff W.

What is that thing on Nic Cage’s head?!?! The horror!!
you_suck

Nic has been doing this weird thing where he slowly owns the baldness that started when he was 18. As they say on fark, his head looks like a giant bird of prey is resting on it when he is in “honest” mode. It still isn’t real – he has to have about as much hair on his dome as Spacey these days – which begs the question, why not just wear a wig or don’t? The middle ground isn’t working.
you_suck

Nic has been doing this weird thing where he slowly owns the baldness that started when he was 18. As they say on fark, his head looks like a giant bird of prey is resting on it when he is in “honest” mode. It still isn’t real – he has to have about as much hair on his dome as Spacey these days – which begs the question, why not just wear a wig or don’t? The middle ground isn’t working.
Stefania Castelli

I watched the movie one hour ago here in Venice.
Jeez, guy. I think the worst one from the creativeness of Mr. Herzog.

A junk policeman (Nicholas Cage) modeled with a rarefied, unshaped psychology, with showered violence rented from some cheap “B” movies and an overall, final message “catholethical” and old-fashioned, anti-Yankees flavored.

Despite the tons of prescript-ed medicines citations (Vicodin, Oxycontin, Dilaudid….) and assumptions plus the not legal meds (Heroin, Cocaine, hydrochloride and basified) taken orally, by nose, smoked, the Bad Lieutenant, talking and behaving like any street junk, become socially stronger and successful, yearly rewarded with career advancement….

An annoying junkies drama with no thrill and no message.

Neither a minimum effort to embrace this “second choice plot” with a clear, social commitment as a real attach to prohibition and its social putrefactive actions or the need to put on top of emergence priorities the drugs law reform and definitively send the DEAs and the Reagans/Dubya philosophy to the horrors cellar….

With a bitter mouth, very nervous and full of delusion, I left the Theater to get an hot dog and wash out the feelings, hoping in Michael Moore’s cure of tomorrow….
Stefania Castelli

I watched the movie one hour ago here in Venice.
Jeez, guy. I think the worst one from the creativeness of Mr. Herzog.

A junk policeman (Nicholas Cage) modeled with a rarefied, unshaped psychology, with showered violence rented from some cheap “B” movies and an overall, final message “catholethical” and old-fashioned, anti-Yankees flavored.

Despite the tons of prescript-ed medicines citations (Vicodin, Oxycontin, Dilaudid….) and assumptions plus the not legal meds (Heroin, Cocaine, hydrochloride and basified) taken orally, by nose, smoked, the Bad Lieutenant, talking and behaving like any street junk, become socially stronger and successful, yearly rewarded with career advancement….

An annoying junkies drama with no thrill and no message.

Neither a minimum effort to embrace this “second choice plot” with a clear, social commitment as a real attach to prohibition and its social putrefactive actions or the need to put on top of emergence priorities the drugs law reform and definitively send the DEAs and the Reagans/Dubya philosophy to the horrors cellar….

With a bitter mouth, very nervous and full of delusion, I left the Theater to get an hot dog and wash out the feelings, hoping in Michael Moore’s cure of tomorrow….

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