There were 4 other movies released on the same date, including planet 51, the blind side and the twilight saga. 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. Though theres a legitimate attempt to engage with new orleans postkatrina, the tone is one. Terence mcdonagh is a drug and gamblingaddled detective in postkatrina new orleans investigating the killing of five senegalese immigrants. Port of call new orleans 2009 terence mcdonagh nicolas cage isnt doing so well.
Port of call new orleans in werner herzogs new film bad lieutenant. Port of call, new orleans is not about plot, but about seasoning. A drugabusing cop nicolas cage probes the slayings of five illegal immigrants from senegal. Port of call new orleans, which is loosley based the original film. Port of call new orleansin elevator prank,the bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleanstrailer,the bad lieutenant. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of african immigrants. 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. 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 has been done to twisted perfection. 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 orleansfull movie,the bad lieutenant.
Eventually they came to a compromise and combined both titles into one. Pretending to be cynical and tough in the aftermath of katrina, terry happens on a prisoner. Port of call new orleans was released in 2009 on friday, november 20, 2009 in 27 theaters. Making a bad movie this good is harder than it looks. Port of call new orleans is not its title, but the point of it. After suffering a spinal injury in the line of work, newly. There was some nudity in the first bad lieutenant film but no nudity in this one. Port of call new orleans, tacitly addresses this dilemma. Werner herzog and eva mendes at an event for bad lieutenant. 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. 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. Polynesian in nature, just the thing to let your worries cast adrift. This tidbit of information appears in the closing credits of herzogs bad lieutenant.
He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of. Herzogs maniacal movie refuses to flinch as it gleefully leaps into an underworld of degradation and despair in. 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. Dec 04, 2009 directed by werner herzog, bad lieutenant. To further celebrate their partnership, mcdonagh implores big fate to smoke crack cocaine with his lucky crack pipe. Port of call new orleans follows a crooked cop nicolas cage who is a drug addict and takes sexual favors for bribes. May 22, 2010 he later said hed insisted the film be called bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleans and its actually a remake. Six months later, now promoted to lieutenant, he is a fully fledged addict, sniffing coke and smoking crack at every opportunity, abusing his status. Nov 20, 2009 making a bad movie this good is harder than it looks. 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.
Its primarily a cop procedural about the murder of a family in postkatrina new orleans. 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. Port of call new orleans is a 2009 american crime drama movie. The biggest new release of the week is bad lieutenant. Cage plays lieutenant terence mcdonagh, a police officer in postkatrina. Herzog is always behind the curtain winking at you, even during the most distasteful scenes. Download georgia rule full movie divx dvd ipod pda. Port of call new orleans as it wasnt really a remake, though almost everything in. Released by promotional release in 2009 containing music from bad lieutenant. Port of call new orleans original motion picture soundtrack. It has nicolas cage playing a bad lieutenant who bullies people, abuses heroin, painkillers and cocaine and is corrupt on many levels.
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. In new orleans, a police lieutenant investigates the killing of five senegalese immigrants. Port of call new orleans movie synopsis, view the movie trailer, get cast and crew information, see movie photos, and more on. Terence mcdonagh oscar winner nicolas cage is a drug and gamblingaddled detective in.
Although the title and the main character would suggest a remake of aber ferraras 1992 bad lieutenant, its not. While tracking down drug kingpin big fate, mcdonagh engages in his vices of gambling, drugs and sex. 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. The red turtle a truly unusual cocktail, tart and crisp with a tequila base, of all thingsyet smooth and pleasant. 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. 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. Port of call new orleans, made in 2009 by werner herzog, follows terrence mcdonagh played by nicolas cage, a police officer in postkatrina new orleans, as he investigates the deaths of five senegalese immigrants connected to a drug ring.
Due to his heroic act, mcdonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. 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. Nov 19, 2009 when i first read about 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 synopsis a drugabusing cop nicolas cage probes the slayings of five illegal immigrants from senegal. It makes no attempt to show that city of legends in a flattering light. 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. 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. He has a nasty painkiller addiction, courtesy of an injury he sustained while rescuing a. 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. 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. The movie is similar to but neither a sequel nor remake for abel ferraras 1992 classic movie bad lieutenant, which starred harvey keitel.
Whether hes robbing clubgoers of their heroin or smoking crack with the bad guys hes. Port of call new orleanscaught on tape,the bad lieutenant. What follows is a wholly indescribable mishmash of the slick and the stank, the cool and the campy. Nov 23, 2009 the good news though is that after a multiyear absence from movie screens hes finally returned in werner herzogs bad lieutenant. It places him in a devastated new orleans not long after hurricane katrina. Port of call new orleans 2009 soundtrack all movie soundtracks. Abel ferraras 1992 bad lieutenant may have made a moderat. He wields his badge as often as he wields his gun in order to get his way. 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.
Though the films title resembles that of abel ferraras 1992 film bad lieutenant, it is neither a sequel nor a remake. Im not sure what the whole film amounts to, and im not sure it amounts to anything. The high point of cages manic, drugfueled, playbyhisownrules bad cop. The good news though is that after a multiyear absence from movie screens hes finally returned in werner herzogs bad lieutenant. If we can, we can move the remake to the currently redirected bad lieutenant. Mcdonagh smokes crack, has public sex, shoots his gun. New rules come with extension of bay area shelterinplace order. 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. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comic. He later said hed insisted the film be called bad lieutenant.
Port of call new orleans and bad lieutenant 1992 film back to bad lieutenant. Werner herzog wanted to call the film port of call. Imdb reports this subtitle for the remake, but we need to verify this with a reliable source. Director werner herzogs career is a catalog of extremes, and bad lieutenant. 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. Then theres the coke before entering a crime scene, and the crack while. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of. 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. Windjammer a blend of tropical juices combined with two kinds of rum and assorted. Next and most significant comes the making of bad lieutenant. 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. This 31minute documentary moves us through filming chronologically. Directed by 1 writing credits 1 cast 98 produced by 12. Port of call new orleans, but that was just wishful thinking.
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