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Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:44:15 GMT

Title: Bad Lieutenant
Year: 2009
Director: Werner Herzog
Plot: Abel Ferrera's cult crime drama Bad Lieutenant gets remade with this Nu Image/Millenium Films production helmed by Werner Herzog. Nicolas Cage steps into Harvey Keitel's shoes as a corrupt and drug-addled police officer in the scummy streets of New York City. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide
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Spout Post: My TFF 2009 screenings...

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:04:32 GMT

Post By: tadiv
Post To: Telluride Film Festival 2008
Post Date: 9/15/2009 12:04:32 AM
Body: Even though SPOUT was not in Telluride, I was and had a great time (as usual). College football cut into a little viewing time, but I still managed to see 14 feature films and 5 short films. Here's the rundown. First up Friday at "The Backlot" was 14-18, the Noise and the Fury (2009). This was an effective film on the horrors of war. Next, also at the Backlot was Disco and Atomic War (2009). Disco... was well done and a great show on the effects of mass media. After the feed, we headed to the Sheridan Opera House for the tribute to Margarethe von Trotta and her new film, Vision (2009) - it was quite good. Next, still at the Opera House was Gigante (2009). It was not among my favorites from the weekend. Saturday started off with the powerful and graphic A Prophet (2009). Next up was one of Alexander Payne's selections for revival, The Breaking Point (1950). Mr. Payne explained how he came to originally see the end of this classic and how he managed to work it into another screening opportunity where he saw the entire film for the first time. Following the classic, we moved on to the well-made Australian film, Samson & Delilah (2009). I wrapped up Saturday at "The Chuck" and a screening of Todd Solondz's new film (which was a real hoot!) titled Life During Wartime (2009). Sunday started with one of Werner Herzog's two new films, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009). This film was fun, not too serious, but not totally a joke either. It was also fun because I sat next to Margarethe von Trotta and had the opportunity to talk about her film Vision and where it was filmed and the like. Next up was An Education (2009). this very well-made film had a serious story to tell and it told it well. After learning a lesson in love, we moved off to the tribute to Viggo Mortensen and John Hillcoat's new film The Road (2009). I really enjoyed this film. It was dark and yet hopeful; very well-done. Monday, after attending the Labor Day Picnic, we saw Veit Harlan: In the Shadow of Jud Süss (2009). This doc was a bit difficult to follow, but it was an interesting look at how the descendants of Harlan deal with the truth about their ancestor. Next we saw the very well-made film by Michael Hoffman, The Last Station (2009). Can you say "Oscar Bait"? The final feature of the weekend was Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (2009). This was a collection of clips and reenactments (based upon script notes) from the failed Inferno project from the early 1960's. My impression of the film was that Clouzt was in over his head and did not know what film he was trying to make - and it seems that it almost killed him. The short films I saw, all preceding features, were: Hulahoop Soundings (2008), The Kinda Sutra (2008), Photographs of Jesus (2008), Scoring (2008), and VEM (I Know) (2008). It was another really good Labor Day Weekend! Tom

Spout Post: Re:Is anyone out there excited about any upcoming release drama/ comedy wise?

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:44:15 GMT

Post By: Risselada
Post To: Coming Soon
Post Date: 6/19/2009 2:44:15 PM
Body: [quote user="dakidhasdough"] Hey there folks. I just want to get a heads up and see if anyone out there is excited for any upcoming release in the drama/comedy category. I don't mind foreign language films. Thanks. [/quote] I'm not sure how soon these are coming out, but these are ones that are in completed or post-production stages that I'm looking forward to: A Serious Man The Rum Diary The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus Inglorious Basterds Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans The Tree of Life This is largely based on who is directing these films.

Spout Post: Nic Cage Back to Insane Work as Usual. Today in Film Bloggery 03/27/09

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:00:55 GMT

Post By: SpoutBlog
Post To: SpoutBlog on spout.com
Post Date: 3/27/2009 5:00:55 PM
Body: This has been quite the week for me to wish Nicolas Cage still made good movies. Besides crying over the fact that his latest sci-fi action thriller involving disaster prophesy was #1 at the box office despite being panned by critics, some of my unrelated experiences over the past seven days have coincidentally included the following: watching Wild at Heart for the first time; learning from locals that Moonstruck was partly shot in my neighborhood; discussing, at a party, not only the merits of The Rock, but also its qualifications for inclusion in the Criterion catalog. I’m now thinking I should stay home tonight and watch a marathon of Raising Arizona, Face/Off and Adaptation. Or, maybe I can just lay back and think about how Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is going to be Cage’s return to quality. I know, I know, those of you who didn’t stop reading at my profession of love for The Rock are now wondering if I’m crazy. “Certainly this movie is going to be terrible,” you’re saying to yourself (as you plan your derisive comment). And besides, Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant “remake” shall be his next good film. Well, maybe, but after seeing the new production photos from Apprentice circulating the net (originating at JustJared), I’m prophesizing that the Fantasia-inspired film will be the Moonstruck to Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans‘ Raising Arizona, or the Face/Off to Lieutenant’s Con Air, or the Adaptation to Lieutenant’s Windtalkers. Perhaps I am soiling my reputation by confessing my overextending appreciation of Cage’s career, but you have to respect a guy who allows himself to look and be so ridiculous for his art. The rest of the film blogosphere’s responses to the photos after the jump: As usual, Dan Hopper at Best Week Ever has the best jokes: “…on the set of his new movie Something Surely Worth Seing Dangerous. He’s about to change out of his normal clothes and hairpiece and into his costume (zuhhhh-zinggg!!!).” Pajiba headlines that this could be Cage’s “Most Hilarious Role Ever.” Let’s hope so. Mark at I Watch Stuff compares the look to WWE wrestler The Undertaker and Sega video game character Chakan: The Forever Man. Cinematical’s Elizabeth Rappe sees Cage instead as “apparently ripping his look off Hugh Jackman’s Gabriel Van Helsing” in the site’s “LOL of the Day” post. “The only thing that has me curious about this movie,” she adds, “is how Baruchel ends up as his apprentice. Because if I was approached by a ‘magician’ who looked like that, I’d run screaming the other way.” Rob Bricken at Topless Robot agrees with Rappe’s comparison but seems a tad more hopeful of the film: I admit, despite my utter hatred and fear of Jerry Bruckheimer movies, I did really enjoy the first Pirates of the Carribbean movie. And I love Fantasia, so I’ll — very regretfully — be giving this a shot. But the fact that Cage is dressed exactly like Hugh Jackman in Van Helsing means I probably won’t be watching sober. Jeremy at We Are Movie Geeks also agrees: “Looks like Cage is trying out for ‘Van Helsing 2.’” Mike Sampson at JoBlo.com sees Cage more as a “geriatric Criss Angel” and tells us how to respect this film: if I hear any “raping my childhood” crap, I’m gonna reach through the computer screen and smack you across the head. This movie has nothing to do with the Mickey Mouse cartoon. The story is a German poem written by Goethe. Get that in your head now and you’ll be OK. Somehow Josh Radde at Film School Rejects thinks Cage “appears to be doing his best Kris Kristofferson,” before once again concentrating on the actor’s hair: Add this hairdo to the pretty amazing collection of Cage ‘Dos so far. In fact, Rotten Tomatoes created a game linking a pic of his hair to the movie it appears in and it’ll surprise you how many twisted coifs this man has sported over the years. The typically optimistic Alex Billington of FirstShowing.net argues on Cage’s behalf: I would say, don’t be so quick to judge these and Cage’s new hairdo and leather outfit, but I’m sure you’ve already made up your mind. I don’t know if these will help Cage any more, or potentially ruin him entirely again, but honestly, I’m still looking forward to The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. And Sean at FilmDrunk also defends the powers of Cage, at least as box office gold: “In all seriousness though, you can make fun of Nicolas Cage all you want, but if the past has taught us anything it is that America loves his movies. National Treasure + Harry Potter = $$$.” In additional Nic Cage-is-nuts bloggery from today: Graeme McMillan at io9 shares the actor’s recent statements regarding his preference for science fiction, abandonment of gratuitous violence and overall desire to go more “into the abstract”: Does this mean that Cage sees science fiction as a gateway drug to take audiences into indulgently abstract movies? I hope so, if only because I’d love to see just how abstract the man behind Ghost Rider, Bangkok Dangerous and Adaptation can get when he puts his mind to it. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog

Spout Post: Bad Lieutenant Remake Still Sparking Baroque Threats From Ferrara

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:01:30 GMT

Post By: Karina
Post To: Karina on SpoutBlog
Post Date: 10/15/2008 1:01:30 PM
Body: Hell hath no fury like Abel Ferrara underpaid for his intellectual property. In an lengthy interview with Nick Dawson for the FILMMAKER Blog (pegged to the long-awaited US first run of Ferrara’s 2005 film Mary, which starts at Anthology Film Archives on Friday), the filmmaker has more complaints about the Nicolas Cage-starring, Werner Herzog-directed remake of Bad Lieutenant. The big problem seems to be that rather than offer Ferrara and his crew a big (or, biggish), Ed Pressman and the producers of the remake simply paid Ferrara “twenty grand” and shut him out. My favorite quotes from the interview, taken out of context: “I can’t believe Nic Cage is trying to play that part. I mean, if the kid needed the money… It’s like Harvey Keitel said, “If the guy needed the money, if he came to us and said, ‘My career’s on the rocks,’ I’d cut him a break.” “I’m not doing the prequel to Aguirre: the Wrath of God, OK? Let me put it that way.” “Give us $8 million, we’ll come up with something. They give me twenty grand and say, “Go fuck yourself.” Gimme a break!” “Ed Pressman sucks cock in hell, period. You can print that.” There’s much, much more here. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth

Spout Post: Bad Lieutenant Remake Still Sparking Baroque Threats From Ferrara

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:01:13 GMT

Post By: SpoutBlog
Post To: SpoutBlog on spout.com
Post Date: 10/15/2008 1:01:13 PM
Body: Hell hath no fury like Abel Ferrara underpaid for his intellectual property. In an lengthy interview with Nick Dawson for the FILMMAKER Blog (pegged to the long-awaited US first run of Ferrara’s 2005 film Mary, which starts at Anthology Film Archives on Friday), the filmmaker has more complaints about the Nicolas Cage-starring, Werner Herzog-directed remake of Bad Lieutenant. The big problem seems to be that rather than offer Ferrara and his crew a big (or, biggish), Ed Pressman and the producers of the remake simply paid Ferrara “twenty grand” and shut him out. My favorite quotes from the interview, taken out of context: “I can’t believe Nic Cage is trying to play that part. I mean, if the kid needed the money… It’s like Harvey Keitel said, “If the guy needed the money, if he came to us and said, ‘My career’s on the rocks,’ I’d cut him a break.” “I’m not doing the prequel to Aguirre: the Wrath of God, OK? Let me put it that way.” “Give us $8 million, we’ll come up with something. They give me twenty grand and say, “Go fuck yourself.” Gimme a break!” “Ed Pressman sucks cock in hell, period. You can print that.” There’s much, much more here. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog

Spout Post: Emma Stone in a Bathing Suit. Clip of the Day.

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:01:35 GMT

Post By: Karina
Post To: Karina on SpoutBlog
Post Date: 10/7/2008 3:01:35 PM
Body: Mean Magazine Presents Emma Stone from Mean Magazine on Vimeo. Yesterday, MEAN Magazine released (or, sent out a press release about) their latest viral video, a “remake” of Bad Lieutenant starring SNL’s Bill Hader (”Eat your heart out, Werner Herzog,” reads the explanatory title card.) It’s okay. The best part is Hader’s final, weepy line, “I’m such a bad lieutenant!” But more interesting is a MEAN video that I missed, the above “Emma Stone in Busby Berkeley 2.0.” With Stone (Jonah Hill’s love interest from Superbad) wearing a vintage bathing suit and staring coquettishly at the camera amidst digital kaleodoscopic chaos, it’s less Busby Berkely than a retro-porn spin on Esther Williams. But it’s pretty! Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth

Spout Post: Emma Stone in a Bathing Suit. Clip of the Day.

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:01:22 GMT

Post By: SpoutBlog
Post To: SpoutBlog on spout.com
Post Date: 10/7/2008 3:01:22 PM
Body: Mean Magazine Presents Emma Stone from Mean Magazine on Vimeo. Yesterday, MEAN Magazine released (or, sent out a press release about) their latest viral video, a “remake” of Bad Lieutenant starring SNL’s Bill Hader (”Eat your heart out, Werner Herzog,” reads the explanatory title card.) It’s okay. The best part is Hader’s final, weepy line, “I’m such a bad lieutenant!” But more interesting is a MEAN video that I missed, the above “Emma Stone in Busby Berkeley 2.0.” With Stone (Jonah Hill’s love interest from Superbad) wearing a vintage bathing suit and staring coquettishly at the camera amidst digital kaleodoscopic chaos, it’s less Busby Berkely than a retro-porn spin on Esther Williams. But it’s pretty! Originally posted on:SpoutBlog

Spout Post: “‘Cock” Cash: Trade Roughage 07/03/08

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:01:05 GMT

Post By: Karina
Post To: Karina on SpoutBlog
Post Date: 7/3/2008 9:01:05 AM
Body: Hancock made a bunch of money on Tuesday. Yay, Will Smith IS America! All together now, in our best Werner Herzog voice: “Don’t call it a reeeemaaaaake!” But whatever it is, Val Kilmer and Xzibit have joined the cast of Bad Lieutenant. Timothy M. Gray’s midyear assessment of the Oscar race finds a lot of ways to say “no one knows anything.” The uncertainty is causing such a frenzy that we’re apparently considering handing out Oscars to Hamlet 2 and (maybe even worse) The Visitor. Please, Toronto, deliver us from this crisis! Speaking of: Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna and the Michael Cera/Kat Dennings romantic dramedy Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist have been added to the TIFF lineup. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth

Spout Post: “‘Cock” Cash: Trade Roughage 07/03/08

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:00:55 GMT

Post By: SpoutBlog
Post To: SpoutBlog on spout.com
Post Date: 7/3/2008 9:00:55 AM
Body: Hancock made a bunch of money on Tuesday. Yay, Will Smith IS America! All together now, in our best Werner Herzog voice: “Don’t call it a reeeemaaaaake!” But whatever it is, Val Kilmer and Xzibit have joined the cast of Bad Lieutenant. Timothy M. Gray’s midyear assessment of the Oscar race finds a lot of ways to say “no one knows anything.” The uncertainty is causing such a frenzy that we’re apparently considering handing out Oscars to Hamlet 2 and (maybe even worse) The Visitor. Please, Toronto, deliver us from this crisis! Speaking of: Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna and the Michael Cera/Kat Dennings romantic dramedy Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist have been added to the TIFF lineup. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog

Spout Post: 10 More ’90s Indies to Franchise

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:01:05 GMT

Post By: SpoutBlog
Post To: SpoutBlog on spout.com
Post Date: 6/5/2008 3:01:05 PM
Body: Now that we know, courtesy of Stu at Defamer, that Werner Herzog’s remake of Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant is not so much a remake as it is like a new entry into a franchise, a la the James Bond movies, we at SpoutBlog wonder what other ’90s indie favorites could be continued with similar yet “completely different” installments. I remember back in the day thinking that Clerks should be a franchise, each film focusing on a different crappy job experience, but now that Clerks II has come and gone, that idea will likely never be realized. Of course, the concept of sequels unrelated to the original aren’t new — just look at any sequel title substituting the number 2 (or II) with the word Too. But nevertheless, here’s a few suggestions for other crazy foreign auteurs to take into consideration: Kids - Looking back, Larry Clark’s then-shocking debut is pretty tame. Nowadays you see teens doing worse things on commercial television. So, how about someone makes another Kids movie every decade or so to expose us to the latest generation of teenagers and how appallingly different they are from the previous generation. It would be like Apted’s Up documentaries, except it wouldn’t follow the same people. Slacker - This is Karina’s suggestion, off the top of her head, so I’ll give her credit. She likes the idea of Linklater revisiting the concept behind his monumental indie, but having it set in other cities, a la The Real World. Unlike the premise of the next Real World, though, I’d be much more excited about a Slacker Brooklyn. Leaving Las Vegas - While we’re on the idea of transplanting locations, and because Herzog is setting his Bad Lieutenant in New Orleans rather than New York, let’s mention some films whose remakes sequels next installments could feature title changes depending on their location changes. Leaving Boston might not have the same ring to it, though. What about King of New York redone as King of St. Louis? Of course, Abel Ferrara is already turning King of New York into a franchise with Pericle il Nero, a prequel that isn’t quite a prequel (strange that he would have a problem with Herzog’s film, then). Swingers - This one is easy. Take some hot new subculture/dance craze/music scene and exploit it, so none of the original followers like it anymore and all of the new followers can be labeled posers (no, of course I’m not bitter). Swingers wasn’t the first movie to do it; Saturday Night Fever and probably a few ’50s rock ‘n’ roll movies were viewed the same way. I wonder what scene is cool with the alternative kids these days … The Big One - Following the success of Roger and Me, Michael Moore made this documentary in which he attempts to get interviews with other corporate heads. But now his films are mostly political and there’s less attention paid towards companies like General Motors and Nike. Sure, we’ve since seen some worthy substitutes, including The Corporation, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Super Size Me, but I’d like Moore to return to his hunting of the villains of capitalism and give up on his pursuit of 9/11 answers. Breaking the Waves - Surely most movie execs were shocked at how unsexy Von Trier’s film was. After all, the story of a crippled man who sends his wife out to sleep with men for his vicarious benefit sounds like an erotic, softcore, Skinamax kind of thing. So, when do we get Breaking the Waves Too, about another crippled man with a much younger, hotter wife (just FYI, I personally have always had a crush on Emily Watson)? And since it will be have to be direct-to-video will it still need to avoid the nauseating shaky cam that made so many people sick in the theater? Sling Blade - Having recently seen Robert Duvall in the 1972 film Tomorrow, I now know that Billy Bob Thornton’s “Karl Childers” is not that unique a character. For the next installment, I’d like to see Karl (well, a character like Karl) and his southern gothic story set in New York City. It would make about as much sense as Bad Lieutenant being set in NOLA. Being John Malkovich - Who hasn’t wanted a franchise in which each installment goes inside the head of a different cult-figure actor? Even if it would ruin the original just a little big, I’d love Being Jeff Goldblum or Being Christopher Walken. The latter would be enormously popular. Kolya - This Oscar-winning foreign film showed us that heartwarming tales of old, curmudgeonly Sean Connery lookalikes who learn to love the young child they’re forced to take care of are universal. But I’d like to see the same plot in other countries besides Czechoslovakia, just to be sure. Waiting for Guffman - Oh wait, Christopher Guest has been continually remaking this movie, only without association. Never mind. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog

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