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Kim Morgan: A Good Cop Is Hard To Find: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:48:49 +0000

Werner Herzog's approach to "the truth" has always been fascinating, fearless, at times ferocious and to continue in this alliterative vein, faithful. Faithful to life -- to its wonderful or horrifying craziness, to its lyrical splendor, and to its appalling ugliness that in turn, can often reveal a deep, multi-faceted beauty. Life is unclean. Life is violent. Life is corrupt. Life is fantastical. Life is chaos. Life is, yes, beautiful. Watch his Lessons of Darkness , concerning the Kuwait fires and you're left breathless by their destructive magnificence. As the oil wells burn we hear Prokofiev, Verdi, Wagner, Grieg and gloriously, Mahler's "Resurrection" (2nd) Symphony. Interestingly, Mahler conceived the second Resurrection as recalling positive remembrances for the dead. Yes. Laudable thoughts. Burn baby, burn -- in a wonderfully optimistic and exalting pitch. This feels like Herzog. And Herzog feels like Herzog. When meeting him, I was so inspired by his ...

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Herzog to chair Berlin film jury

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:09:48 +0000

German director Werner Herzog will head the jury at next year's Berlin Film Festival, organisers announce.

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Movie review: Ann Hornaday on Werner Herzog's 'Bad Lieutenant,' starring Nicolas Cage

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0000

There's a deranged grandeur to Nicolas Cage's performance in "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," in which he plays a police officer who plunges into drug addiction after a heroic on-the-job accident. Cage throws himself into a role of a man not so much battling as fervidly dancing with hi...

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Review: 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans'

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:42:57 +0000

Drawn to another man-in-crisis story, director Werner Herzog delivers a darkly delicious tale in which Nicolas Cage is positively reptilian. > Drawn to another man-in-crisis story, director Werner Herzog delivers a darkly delicious tale in which Nicolas Cage is positively reptilian.

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Herzog to Head Berlin Film Festival

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:26:27 +0000

By ScreenDaily Werner Herzog will head the jury at the upcoming 60th Berlin International Film Festival (February 11-21). The German auteur has made over 50 films during a career which has spanned almost 50 years, including "The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser" (Special Jury Prize, Cannes 1975), "Fitzcarraldo" (1982, Silver Palm in Cannes for Best Director), "Cobra Verde" (1987) and "Rescue Dawn" (2006). Read more at ScreenDaily.

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Werner Herzog to head Berlin film festival jury (Reuters)

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:51:39 +0000

Reuters - German director Werner Herzog will head the jury at the 2010 Berlin film festival, organizers said on Thursday.

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Werner Herzog to head Berlin jury

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:28:50 +0000

International News: Director to preside over competition jurors -- Werner Herzog has been tapped to head the Berlin Film Festival jury.

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CS Video: Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:52:40 +0000

Filmmaker Werner Herzog ( Rescue Dawn , Grizzly Man ) talks with ComingSoon.net about his new movie Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans , starring Nicolas Cage as a corrupt police officer whose addiction to prescription painkillers sends him spiraling down a path of no return.

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Werner Herzog and Nicolas Cage: Partners in crime

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:52:41 +0000

'Bad Lieutenant's' director sped through the making of the film even as its lead actor pushed the character's boundaries. > In "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," Nicolas Cage portrays a cop of unwavering commitment: He never lets his duty to protect and serve stand in the way of a hard-core drug binge.

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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:52:21 +0000

Starring: Nicholas Cage, Eva Mendes Review: There are few things more entertaining than watching Nicolas Cage go bug-fuck in a movie that knows how to present the spectacle in style. To my list of fave Cage meltdowns — Vampire?s Kiss, Wild at Heart and Face/Off — add this bad boy from director Werner Herzog, no stranger to diving off deep ends. Get more news and reviews from Peter Travers on the Travers Take Let me interrupt this review to state that any resemblance between this Bad Lieutenant and the 1992 Abel Ferrara landmark is purely in the head of the dude who thought up the title. Cage plays a junkie cop, just like Harvey Keitel did in the first one. End of similarity. As Cage?s Lieutenant Terence McDonagh roams the Katrina-ravaged Big Easy (Keitel?s beat was New York), Herzog doesn?t so much direct him as... Rating: 2 Stars

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