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Harvey Keitel in "Bad Lieutenant." (Courtesy Aries Films) Ferrara does his best not to sensationalize this already sordid material. Shot in the style of Italian neorealist pictures from the 1950s ...
If there's one thing to be learned from Saturday's New Orleans Film Festival screenings, it is this: Crowd-pleasers sometimes come in the most unlikely of packages.
BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS 3 stars, out of 4 Snapshot: A crime drama about a police detective battling multiple addictions as he works to solve a multiple killing.
By all objective standards and practices, “The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans” is not a successful movie: It’s wild and uneven ...
If you saw Bad Lieutenant in theaters in 1992, it was likely an unforgettable experience. Between its graphic depictions of rape and drug use, the frontal nudity courtesy of star Harvey Keitel ...
Werner Herzog’s “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, New Orleans” creates a dire portrait of a rapist, murderer, drug addict, corrupt cop and degenerate paranoid who’s very apprehensive about ...
With Bad Lieutenant, his effort was rewarded with an NC-17 rating. (“When Abel Ferrara calls something bad, better believe it: He means business,” Janet Maslin wrote in her New York Times review.) ...
Director Werner Herzog, working from a William Finkelstein screenplay, has summoned the spirit of the original "Bad Lieutenant" while making something fresh and gloriously insane.
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Production: A Millennium, Nu Image, First Look Studios presentation of an Edward R. Pressman production. (International sales: Millennium Films, Los Angeles ...
Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans. “I still hate that I ruined my underwear for you.” —Nicolas Cage, Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans When it was announced at Cannes that ...
Critic's Pick Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Director: Werner Herzog Screenwriter: Werner Herzog Cast: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Xzibit , Fairuza ...
But it's that constant weirdness, coupled with Nicolas Cage's best performance in pretty much forever, that makes this depraved, sexually charged, over-the-top drama so much fun to watch. It's a ...