I am going to anticipate the HELL out of Werner Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1095217/
Staring: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Jennifer Coolidge, Fairuza Balk, Brad Dourif

Quoting from http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/jan/26/werner-herzog-interview:

MK: So, Werner, are you making Bad Lieutenant?

WH: No, because I've done it.

MK: But it's not a remake, is it?

WH: No, it's not, although I cannot fully verify it because I have never seen Bad Lieutenant made by Abel Ferrara. I do not know who the man is, although he has made a lot of noise about this. Only the producer, Ed Pressman, who owns the rights to the title and was apparently planning to do some sort of franchise out of it, named it Bad Lieutenant. I added the subtitle, Port of Call New Orleans, because it takes place in New Orleans. And the leading actor in this is Nicolas Cage, with whom I had a wonderful working relationship. I took him where he has not been before.

MK: And he's been a lot of places. [audience laughs]

WH: I'm not speaking of physical places.

MK: I'm not either. [audience laughs]

WH: [laughs] Sorry, I have to take things almost verbatim here.

MK: Anyway, very quickly, there was a phrase that you used. I said the Abel Ferrara film was about the burden of guilt, but your film is about ...

WH: The bliss of evil. What I'm trying to do is ... When I accepted this film, and I accepted partially because Nicolas Cage wouldn't do it unless I directed. What was intriguing was the idea to put film noir on to a new different level that is appropriate to today. And that was in April or May when I accepted it. Sometimes cultural history coincides with economic history. When you look at the Great Depression in the 1930s, that spawned a type of literature, like Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, which in turn spawned the film noir, with Humphrey Bogart and Edward G Robinson and others. So, in my opinion, it is a result of a very intense economic and cultural climate of depression. When I said yes to it in April, I had the feeling that there was something coming at us, which in a way made it, I say it with caution, necessary to get into film noir and to develop it. And then, just when I had finished shooting, the economy started to collapse and unravel. It was more like a coincidence but there is something in the air and I think it is the right thing to do film noir nowadays.

Ugh.. Starring not Staring. But you never know...

MK: So, Werner, are you making Bad Lieutenant?
WH: No, because I've done it.

no bullshit with werner. i'm totally looking forward to this. herzog + new orleans + noir, heck yes.

as long as it's not like angel heart or something.

i am anticipating

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Oh HELL yes. I am so in. I am officially anticipating.

yeah i am psyched for this. i spent weeks when they were filming this hoping for a herzog sighting. no dice. apparently he did it super-cheap, tiny crew, natural-lighting-as-much-as-possible... also new orleans' #1 tourist trap cheeseburger joint is named port of call.

Hoping this is more Rescue Dawn and less Invincible.

new orleans' #1 tourist trap cheeseburger joint is named port of call

When I frequented the Crescent City (98 - 2002), PoC was an alright divey place to get full and a little drunk.
I seem to recall some decent live music, too.

Shame if its gone tourist trap.

I used to know a waitress who worked there, too. She helped me out more than few times.

When has Herzog last made a good non-documentary though? I don't count Rescue Dawn either

When was Nicholas Cage last good in anything? It's been at least as long... right?

I think you're forgetting about a little movie called "the wicker man"

I liked Invincible.

Trailer:

Val Kilmer?!

he's getting old and weird looking

this movie could be fantastic

if not it will be fantastically bad

that trailer is pretty rough

there aint no iguana :)

Val looks better than he has recently, actually.

It looks like an amazing movie, and one that I'm not going to spoil by watching the trailer too often. I'm not sure whether Cage really went all in on the performance though.

i have a feeling the critical reaction is going to be contentious w/me on the PRO side and everyone else repping for CON

I want to thank in advance all the clip artists who will extract the most awesome parts of this movie and string them together on youtube for posterity. Glory be unto you.

omg i think i can't wait for this; best kind of nic cage part, goofy and unhinged, like national treasure but with drugs instead of documents of historic importance

i hated eva mendes when i first saw her (ghostrider prolly) but she has grown on me

a BONER!

"Now in Post-Production"

This is gonna be somethin' else.

this looks like a fucking RIOT.

looks horrible but i cant wait to see it!

you don't have a lucky crack pipe?

this looks AMAZING

this looks hilarious, gotta see this now

"bad lieutenant: port of call new orleans" is such a straight-to-dvd sequel name

trailer looks straight-to-dvd too

"bad lieutenant: the naked mile"

bad lieutenant: havana nights

his SOUL IS STILL DANCING

i wish werner had set this in antarctica -- nic cage stumbling around with the confused penguin from encounters at the end of the world.

hopefully each chapter of this franchise will deal with a different bad lieutenant, like every american pie dvd sequel deals with a different member of the stifler family

bad lieutenant 3: even worse lieutenant

i love that this has both nic cage and val kilmer in it.

am appreciating the harmonica motif from the end of stroszek on the soundtrack
nicolas cage is pulling more faces that should be soundtracked by deadpan dongggggggs.

omg the dancing chicken music, yes

This better have a pinball machine tie-in.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/badlieutenantportofcallneworleans/

f yes

sold out at afi fest :(

trainwreck!

NY Times loved it!

saw trailer in theater yesterday. Has a chance if it's a comedy.

Saw this on Sunday night at a packed cinema - funny because it really underperformed in its first week here. It seemed to get such a big push with those ads at every tube stop and newpapers.

It was truly awesome, I've never actually enjoyed Nicholas Cage in a film before and he was born to play this part.

Sequel, anyone?

Sequel needs to be done by a completely different director and lead, and have nothing to do with the previous two.

Bad Lieutenant 3: Fire In The Cornfield, dir. Ken Loach (Vin Diesel, Amanda Plummer)

or in a better world...the European arthouse incarnation!

Bad Lieutenant: Histoire de la mort dir. Michael Haneke

You wld have some wonderfully ravaged older actors to choose from there.

"You're the fucking reason this country's going down the drain!"

Saw this last night, certainly some (unintentionally?) funny moments but it was pretty horrendous overall!

Bad Lieutenant 3: Tokyo Rampage (dir: Takeshi Kitano, starring: Vincent Gallo, Shannon Tweed)

this "g"

THIS WAS AMAZING.

otm

til the break of dawn

:)

always happy when someone else discovers this film

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldc5hknpbi1qe0eclo1_500.gif

^put that on the herzog oscar roll for lifetime achievement in abt 2025

i felt the need to take this screenshot while watching, although it didn't quite capture what i was seeing:

http://oi55.tinypic.com/2i8evdv.jpg

anyway, brb going to tell all of my friends to watch this.

damn i've been watching that gif for an hour now and he's still just standing there shaving

Finally saw this on dvd rental, the most straight-up enjoyable film I've seen in a long time. Cage beyond description and I kept imagining I could hear Herzog from behind the camera "now vee vill take ze beast's point of view - the second alligator sees his fallen comrade, dead in ze road, the pain of life washes over him" delivered in his measured monotone (per Iguana Time et al upthread).

This was the best movie I saw in 2010. It didn't open here, I just straight up bought the DVD because Nic Cage was in it and I heard he goes nuts in it. That's really all I need to know when it comes time to decide whether or not to buy a movie. Yes the original was more depraved but this one is such a bizarre movie. I mean there are a lot of movies about "bad cops" and "worse cops" but Cage plays this one like he's in a Pachinko commercial the whole time, just randomly flipping out on random people. I know the "you either love it or you hate it" line is thrown around all the time but I think it really applies here. Like, it's so out there that you can't help but be either enamored or completely replused by it.

btw totally agreed that this would go well with "vampire's kiss". that movie is basically nic cage flipping out at people for 90 minutes too.

i recently watched vampire's kiss. it was great. plus esg is in it!

Deadfall is an (entertaingly) terrible movie in which his character is completely, ridiculously wacked-out

I just bought Deadfall for a couple of bucks on your suggestion and I don't even know what to say. The movie is terrible but the character of Eddie is so strange that I wonder if they just told Cage to do whatever the hell he wants; not only does he switch accents several times but almost nothing his character says makes any sense...please find some clips on youtube

god damn

this movie y'all

god damn

werner herzog played a german pharmaceutical tycoon on the simpsons the other night
he was p.funny in a very strange and un-simpsons-like way

playedvoiced, I guess

snowy otm as usual

need to rewatch this

snowy otm as usual
aw shucks/feeling's mutual/etc <3

I actually haven't watched any nic cage lately — some weird personal baggage connected with the fact that my ex and I watched a lot of his movies together...

... but then Ghost Rider came on TV in spanish the other day, which was awesome (really all you need to know in order to follow it is "alma" = soul) and has given me the itch again

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201105/werner-herzog-profile-cave-of-forgotten-dreams?printable=true

this was phenomenal i wanna watch it again tonight

watched this tonight w/probably the only two folx in my life who do not know who/give a fuck who herzog is. gator and iguana bits went over great.

:)
always happy when someone else discovers this film
― nakhchivan, Saturday, December 18, 2010 5:08 PM (6 months ago)

Cosigned!

one of my best friends, who is a film buff and movie-maker, got into a big fight about this movie: he says he's tried to watch it twice but can't get past the 'stupid' opening scenes bc he thinks that NC hurting his back to help that prisoner is a) too much exposition and b) a ridiculous premise to the movie. i got so mad when he told me this and now i can't trust any of his film reccs.

a). how could he possibly know it's too much exposition if hes never watched the whole thing? b). fuck that guy

My favourite film of last year. Well, this and The American. It may even be one of the few films I actually buy, if I see it for cheap enough.

xp i know! that's what makes me so mad!

well for piece-of-mind sake, youre right, hes wrong. it's a 5 minute scene ffs!

lol missed that scene tbh

late to the party (as usual) and not my fave Werner Herzog or Nicolas Cage film ... but still, damn this was a good one!

Finally saw this. They basically just replaced crushing Catholic guilt with cracked-out reptile hallucinations. I loved it.

To the break o'dawn.

Stands up to repeat viewing!

yes, watched again last night. mcdonough's behaviour/unravelling wasn't a crazy as i remember it from first time round, but man is cage great in this.

new favourite moment- the second the chief tells him he's going into the evidence room as his modified duty

finally watched this and it was great and really funny. cage is amazing in this.

Still remarkable and fun. And fucked up. Possibly the last great Herzog feature? Haven't watched the Nicole Kidman in the desert one yet.

Is My Son My Son after this? Cause that's great.

The two films premiered at the same Venice Film Festival. I prefer My Son My Son as well.

Revisited tonight and its a much straighter narrative than i remembered once you can observe outside of the jitters

I went to a screening of BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS and Nic Cage did a talk...he said it pissed him off that people called him "over the top" because there is no 'top' to human emotion and we all applauded. pic.twitter.com/eMidcChuOC

— Jesse Crall🕊 (@jessecrall) April 28, 2021

there is no "top" to human emotion

Id applaud too

Hahaha, what the fuck even was this movie. Great.

Great is what it was.