THE BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS
USA
2009
120 minutes
A drug-addicted New Orleans detective investigating the drug-related murder of an immigrant family finds himself getting deeper and deeper into trouble and addiction. Not so much a remake of Abel Ferrara's 1992 cult classic Bad Lieutenant as a totally different story that shares a thematic resemblance but nothing else, this eccentric police procedural fits right into its director's filmography but also in a long line of Hollywood left-of-centre potboilers, with a star performance from a lead whose work had become far too mainstream for his own good.
Millennium Films presents an Edward R. Pressman Film Productions/Saturn Films production, in association with Polsky Films and Osiris Productions.
Starring Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner, Fairuza Balk, Shawn Hatosy, Jennifer Coolidge, Tom Bower, Vondie Curtis Hall, Brad Dourif.
Directed by Werner Herzog; produced by Stephen Belafonte, Alan Polsky, Gabe Polsky, John Thompson, Randall Emmett, Edward R. Pressman; written by William Finkelstein; music by Mark Isham; director of photography (Foto-kem), Peter Zeitlinger; production designer, Toby Corbett; costume designer, Jill Newell; film editor, Joe Bini.
Screened: distributor advance press screening, Zon auditorium (Lisbon), April 23rd 2010.
2009
120 minutes
A drug-addicted New Orleans detective investigating the drug-related murder of an immigrant family finds himself getting deeper and deeper into trouble and addiction. Not so much a remake of Abel Ferrara's 1992 cult classic Bad Lieutenant as a totally different story that shares a thematic resemblance but nothing else, this eccentric police procedural fits right into its director's filmography but also in a long line of Hollywood left-of-centre potboilers, with a star performance from a lead whose work had become far too mainstream for his own good.
Millennium Films presents an Edward R. Pressman Film Productions/Saturn Films production, in association with Polsky Films and Osiris Productions.
Starring Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner, Fairuza Balk, Shawn Hatosy, Jennifer Coolidge, Tom Bower, Vondie Curtis Hall, Brad Dourif.
Directed by Werner Herzog; produced by Stephen Belafonte, Alan Polsky, Gabe Polsky, John Thompson, Randall Emmett, Edward R. Pressman; written by William Finkelstein; music by Mark Isham; director of photography (Foto-kem), Peter Zeitlinger; production designer, Toby Corbett; costume designer, Jill Newell; film editor, Joe Bini.
Screened: distributor advance press screening, Zon auditorium (Lisbon), April 23rd 2010.
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