Abel Ferrara

You watch, hypnotized. Will he crawl his way out? Will you? In Herzog's film, which shares a title and little else with Abel Ferrara's 1992 Bad Lieutenant, Cage plays a crackpot (not to mention crackhead) law-enforcement officer...

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...things in both of them. Here, Herzog is working from a screenplay by William Finkelstein that bears only a nominal resemblance to Abel Ferrara's 1992 magnum opus of the same name. The first film was set in New York and had a...

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...straits, the prospects seem dim. The director - the esteemed Werner Herzog, stupefyingly enough - claims never to have seen Abel Ferrara's original 1992 "Bad Lieutenant," and I think we can take him at his word. The Ferrara movie,...

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...shelf. On paper, nearly everything bodes poorly for this film, from the fact that it has nothing at all to do with Abel Ferrara's cult classic "Bad Lieutenant" to the presence of Val Kilmer in one of the lead roles - wearing...

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...Werner Herzog, a filmmaker never known for half measures, has taken the basic character, plot points and leitmotifs from Abel Ferrara's 1992 "Bad Lieutenant," and given them more heat, humor and stylized action. His most provocative...

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"Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" is one of the most curious films to arrive in a long time. It's a kind of remake of Abel Ferrara's 1992 cult classic "Bad Lieutenant," which was set in New York and starred Harvey Keitel in a...

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...of daring and one of the craziest films of the year. It's a very loose remake of the 1992 "Bad Lieutenant," in which director Abel Ferrara unleashed Harvey Keitel as a drug-addled spin cycle disguised as a police detective. The character of...

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...at the Venice film festival. One, "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" starring Nicolas Cage, was criticized by director Abel Ferrara for deliberately seeking to cash in on the name and premise of his similarly titled 1992 cult...

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...Cage and Viggo Mortensen, here are four solid bets to catch over the break. "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" When Abel Ferrara heard that his controversial masterpiece, "Bad Lieutenant" (1992) - the first film ever to be...

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..."Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" is not technically a remake. Filmmaker Werner Herzog has supposedly never even seen Abel Ferrara's original 1992 film, simply titled "Bad Lieutenant," and the only connections are the title and the...

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