In Werner Herzog’s highly anticipated new film, Nicolas Cage plays a man as devoted to police work as he is to scoring drugs. A high-functioning addict who is a deeply intuitive, fearless detective, he ranges over the beautiful ruins of New Orleans with authority and abandon. Adding to his tumultuous life is the prostitute he loves (played by Eva Mendes). Together they descend into their own world marked by desire, compulsion, and conscience. The result is a singular masterpiece of filmmaking: equally sad and manicly humorous. In this book devoted to the film, renowned photographer Lena Herzog’s documentation of the film captures the uniqueness of the director’s vision, the set, and the actors. The volume also includes the script, written by Billy Finkelstein, reworked by Herzog.
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Legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog’s latest film about a drug-addicted cop.
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Werner Herzog is an Academy Award®–nominated film director, screenwriter, and actor. His recent acclaimed films include Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn, and Encounters at the End of the World. Lena Herzog’s photographs have appeared in major publications, including three monographs. Her worked is collected by museums around the world.
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This review is from: The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call: New Orleans (Hardcover)
Even if you were kind of so-so on the movie, this book still offers much to be enjoyed; half of the book is all photos from the film, very artistic and surreal at times; the 2nd part is the screenplay, which is fun to read. I really liked the movie, esp. for the visual style of Herzog and the perfectly cast Nicolas Cage. This is a very cool, high quality book that will please fans of the movie, Nic Cage, Werner Herzog, or just photography in general.
Also, there is a very informative essay by Herzog that explains some of his feelings behind the movie and concepts of film overall. Highly recommended, esp. at this price!!!!
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Mr. Moore keep your day job.,
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This review is from: The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call: New Orleans (Hardcover)
You did not see the same film I did. An American film made by a German film maker may not be your cup of tea. Mr. Cage gave one of his best in years. Not a remake since it ends very different than the original. I am sick of wannabe film critics on the internet. This is why I only read the New York Times and Film Comment.
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Manic, Self-Destructive Rogue Detective,
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This review is from: The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call: New Orleans (Hardcover)
"Bad Lieutenant" is set in New Orleans after Katrina. Terrence McDonaugh (Nicholas Cage) plays police Sergeant Terrence McDonagh. In the first scene he and his police buddy (Val Killmar) Scabrously powerful, the film dives into the addictive psyche, mixing Ferrara's fave elements: sex, drugs, and mayhem. Yet like his other films, it's a morality play about reclaimed sinners desperate for salvation in a world devoid of love and decency.
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. Six months later, a family is murdered over drugs; Terence runs the investigation. His drug-using prostitute girlfriend, his alcoholic father's dog, run-ins with two old women and a well-connected john, gambling losses, a nervous young witness, and thefts of police property put Terence's job and then his life in danger. He starts seeing things. He wants a big score to get out from under mounting debts, so he joins forces with drug dealers. The murders remain unsolved. A bad lieutenant gets worse. Despite the Bad Lieutenant's continuing outrageous and crazy actions, you hope he comes through. Terrance juggles both ends of the moral spectrum (including pulling oxygen tubes from elderly patient to get vital information on informant from her caretaker) so we see a full panorama of his "balancing justice" manic personality until the end. One scene stuck with me at the beginning Terrance sees the family massacre and reads a child's diary about a pet fish, "Do fish have dreams?" Everything seems to come together at the end, but then we see Terrance in another crazy cop situation. Overall the movie was riveting and you cannot take your eyes off Terrance, a manic, delusional, detective that plays morality any way that works.
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