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Abel Ferrara's cult favorite Bad Lieutenant (1992) was a Scorsese-style exercise in macho histrionics and tortured Catholicism; this Werner Herzog drama plays more like a dark comedy, powerfully alive to the relaxed morality and hothouse culture of its title town. Taking over for Harvey Keitel, Nicolas Cage plays a different cop but with the same weakness for sex, drugs, and gambling; after a family of Senegalese immigrants is massacred in a drug-turf dispute, he swings into action. The director is particularly fascinated by the reptiles (snakes, alligators, iguanas) that are part of the landscape, and Cage, stoop-shouldered from a back injury and saucer-eyed from his chemical intake, is pretty damn funny. The sterling cast includes Val Kilmer, Eva Mendes, Fairuza Balk, Jennifer Coolidge, Brad Dourif, Michael Shannon, and Irma P. Hall. R, 121 min.

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Official Site: www.badlt.com
Director: Werner Herzog
Writer: William M. Finkelstein
Producer: Edward R. Pressman and Stephen Belafonte
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner, Fairuza Balk, Shawn Hatosy, Jennifer Coolidge, Shea Whigham, Denzel Whitaker and Brad Dourif

Sorry there are no showtimes for The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call: New Orleans on Tuesday, February 9.

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Re: “The Bad Lieutenant Gone Wild

I just want to point out that the only two movies with a star (indicating recommended films) on the Showtimes page right now are Precious (or as I like to call it, Monique Dearest) and... a film about the Baader-Meinhof gang. (What, there's no 7-hour Hans Jurgen Syberberg film of someone reading the works of Rosa Luxembourg playing?)

I'm all for tough aesthetic standards but if the only movies the Reader can find to recommend are two hairshirt epics like that, I have to say you've lost a certain touch with the reality of the moviegoing public. How about dialing your bullshit detector down one order of magnitude, and allowing at least a modest level of support for things that would at least be better to see than other things, such as A Serious Man or Where the Wilds Things Are-- or Bad Lieutenant, for that matter?

Posted by Ronald McFirbank on November 20, 2009 at 9:43 AM | Report this comment

Re: “The Bad Lieutenant Gone Wild

@Ronald, thanks for the note. We're still working out some issues with our content management system, and this is one of them.

Click on the Now Showing page under the movies tab, and you'll see the full array of titles we're recommending (indicated by CC, for Critic's Choice, and R, for Recommended).

Posted by Alison True on November 20, 2009 at 3:07 PM | Report this comment

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