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Bad Lieutenants and Magnificent Sevens – the golden rules of the cinematic remake
31 December 2009 2:00 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Magnificent Seven, The Ring, Psycho, The Preacher's Wife – some remakes are an improvement, some are an abysmal waste of time. Joe Queenan judges the pack
In 1992, Abel Ferrara made a very dark, very depressing movie called Bad Lieutenant. In it, Harvey Keitel played a morally bankrupt police officer who seeks redemption by investigating the rape of a nun who refuses to bring charges against her assailant, turning the Bad Lieutenant into the Mad Lieutenant. The film did nothing at the box office, and is remembered mostly because it is the motion picture in which Keitel shows off his penis. There was at the time no great demand for Keitel – a fine actor, but never a matinee idol – to show off his penis, even though it was a very splendid penis indeed, nor has there been any grassroots groundswell of support for this sort of thing afterwards.
Not so long ago, »
- Joe Queenan
The Notable Films of 2010: Part Six
27 December 2009 10:09 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Opens: July 2nd 2010
Cast: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Summary: A live-action film based on the Nickelodeon animated TV series. In a fantastic world where civilisation exists as four great empires, a reluctant young child sets out on a perilous journey to restore balance to a world torn apart by war.
Analysis: Its been quite the decade for M. Night Shyamalan who started it as a household name with labels of a moodern-day Hitchcock thanks to the likes of "The Sixth Sense" and "Signs". Today he's considered more of a one-trick pony and in some cases a punchline due to rampant stories of egomania run wild and a series of much derided onscreen flops like "Lady in the Water" and "The Happening".
Thus 'Airbender' marks a potential return to form for the helmer. An adaptation of the hit cartoon series »
- Garth Franklin
The Notable Films of 2010: Part Six
27 December 2009 10:09 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Opens: July 2nd 2010
Cast: Noah Ringer, Nicola Peltz, Jackson Rathbone, Dev Patel
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Summary: A live-action film based on the Nickelodeon animated TV series. In a fantastic world where civilisation exists as four great empires, a reluctant young child sets out on a perilous journey to restore balance to a world torn apart by war.
Analysis: Its been quite the decade for M. Night Shyamalan who started it as a household name with labels of a moodern-day Hitchcock thanks to the likes of "The Sixth Sense" and "Signs". Today he's considered more of a one-trick pony and in some cases a punchline due to rampant stories of egomania run wild and a series of much derided onscreen flops like "Lady in the Water" and "The Happening".
Thus 'Airbender' marks a potential return to form for the helmer. An adaptation of the hit cartoon series »
- Garth Franklin
Rodrigo Gudino talks about 'Cut Throats Nine' remake!
16 December 2009 9:30 PM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
You will know of our love for Canadian filmmaker Rodrigo Gudino. You will also know that his first foray into feature film making will be a remake of the 1972 splat-ghetti western Cut Throats Nine, penned together with another local boy Joseph O'Brien. He already has a great cast forming with Harvey Keitel, Mads Mikkelsen, and Canadian Quebecois actor Roy Dupuis signed on.
Rodrigo sat down with Opium and answered a couple questions about his upcoming film...
Why "Cut Throats Nine"? Because it has an amazing story at its core and yet it is a movie that is far from perfect. I always referred to it as a tarnished gem. When I first saw the original I also saw a lot of potential to expand on themes that I thought were bigger than a cult movie, themes having to do with human evil and violence. I guess I see the remake »
Rodrigo Gudiño talks spaghetti western remake Cut-throats Nine
16 December 2009 8:20 PM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
"My philosophy going into this remake is to fix the things that need fixing and leave the rest alone." -- Rodrigo Gudiño
There are two films that I consider myself lucky to have seen theatrically. One is an ill-colored print of the original 1972 spaghetti western, Cut-Throats Nine and the other is Rodrigo Gudiño's The Facts in the Case of Mr. Hollow (trailer), a deliriously macabre animated short that blew me away with its technical merits and dark vision when I saw it on its festival run last year. So you can image how intrigued I was to discover that these two unique cinematic experiences would been mashed together now that Gudiño is making his feature debut with a remake of the cult western.
Our friends at Opium caught up with the Canadian filmmaker and publisher of Rue-Morgue Magazine to discuss his plans. Here are a couple pull quotes:
"[Cut-Throats Nine] has »
Roy Disney, 'Avatar' And Copenhagen In Today's Twitter-Wood
16 December 2009 4:00 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
Roy Disney's death today was big news in Twitter-Wood, where a lot of folks have been affected by his work and commitment to animation over the course of their careers. It's certainly appropriate that "Toy Story 3" director Lee Unkrich was among the first to post his condolences.
And speaking of animation, Danny DeVito made it onto the guest list for the "Avatar" premiere tonight, and took a picture of his excitable foot to prove it. His "Twins" co-star Arnold Schwarzenegger posted
pic, too, from over in Copenhagen where he's meeting with folks for the U.N. Climate Summit. You can click through all of those tweets after the jump where you'll also find out who may have cut actress Jenna Stern off and which musician/director is working on a new FunnyorDie.com sketch. It's all in the Twitter-Wood report for December 16, 2009.
@OmarDoom: http://twitpic.com/ts6fd »
- Brian Warmoth
'Quentin Tarantino and I clicked'
5 December 2009 4:09 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Sally Menke, who has edited all of Quentin Tarantino's films, on their working relationship and the thrill of John Travolta dancing in front of her during the making of Pulp Fiction
Editors are the quiet heroes of movies and I like it that way. We have a very private relationship with our directors, most often conducted in very dark rooms. I've been with Quentin Tarantino since his very first movie and have edited every single thing he's done since then.
We don't work at the studios. Quentin insists on renting little private houses in La and converting them into edit suites for the duration. It's very civilised and enabled me to work through both my pregnancies – yes, my babies had Tarantino movies played to them in the womb, but they seem to have come out Ok.
I met Quentin when he was interviewing for an editor – a cheap one. »
Spielberg Stops Imagining ‘Harvey’
4 December 2009 6:46 AM, PST | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Steven Spielberg is a rare movie icon whose catalog of film is known even to those who don’t go see movies. He deserves that status, after a career of directing films that almost always deliver the goods.
But lately he’s become flighty, picking up projects here and there, while dropping others. Spielberg announces Interstellar and Lincoln, and then we don’t hear any details about them. He talks up an Oldboy remake with Will Smith and then dumps the project. Now that he’s also officially abandoned his adaptation of Harvey, I’m wondering: what’s making him so nervous about all these projects? Is it because he feels that he must return with a grand slam after the critical reaction to Crystal Skull?
Spielberg spent half a year developing Harvey, a Mary Chase play about a man and his giant rabbit that was so wonderfully executed by Jimmy Stewart in 1950. But apparently, »
- John Cooper
'Community' recap: Horses, STDs, and Harvey Keitel
3 December 2009 11:17 PM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
I was not in the best of moods last night when Community materialized on my TV. I was exhausted, I had a stubborn headache, and it was approaching 50 degrees outside, which for Angelenos is the equivalent of being trapped on Hoth. Luckily, yesterday's episode, "The Politics of Human Sexuality," was an agreeable affair. The show wasn't top-tier Community, mind you, but it was satisfying enough to snap this blogger out of his funk, and what more could you ask for from a freshman comedy series? While the episode's setting of a school Std fair didn't set up its humor as effectively as, »
- John Young
Lots of Details About Peter Berg’s ‘Battleship’
2 December 2009 9:38 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
As if the idea of a movie based on the board game Battleship wasn’t worrying enough, it was recently announced that the bad guys are going to be aliens. Although, Fyi, take my opinion about the antagonists with a big grain of salt, as I don’t think a Battleship movie is a good idea to begin with.
It appears that studio Universal and director Peter Berg have been lending their ears to the negative reaction their Battleship movie has gotten – particularly about the aliens being the “villains,” and so the studio sent some journalists and bloggers to the U.S.S. Sterett, where they got a chance to ask questions to Berg about the project.
Thanks to reports from Latino Review and Chud, we now have some insight into what shape Berg’s Battleship may take:
Those lucky enough to get invited to this thing managed to get »
- Ross Miller
Box Office Beat Down: The Twilight Saga: New Moon Earns $140 Million
22 November 2009 6:02 PM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Weekend Box Office
1) The Twilight Saga: New Moon - $140 million
2) The Blind Side - $34.5 million
3) 2012 - $26.5 million
4) Planet 51 - $12.6 million
5) Disney's a Christmas Carol - $12.2 million
6) Precious - $11 million
7) The Men Who Stare at Goats - $2.7 million
8) Couples Retreat - $1.9 million
9) The Fourth Kind - $1.7 million
10) Law Abiding Citizen - $1.6 million
The Twilight Saga: New Moon, which is the sequel to the ridiculously successful 2008 teen-vampire film Twilight based on the books by Stephanie Meyer, took a real big bite out of its competition this weekend to take the number one spot in the box office. The film, which was released on 4,024 screens made an amazing $34,965 per screen for a record setting $140 million opening weekend total, putting it third in all time opening weekend tallies right behind The Dark Knight and Spider-Man 3, respectively. However the Sandra Bullock football film, The Blind Side based on the true story of NFL Offensive Lineman Michael Oher, »
Weekend Movie News Wrap Up: November 22, 2009
22 November 2009 1:11 PM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
This week:
The box office Twi-Hards With A Vengeance as New Moon breaks records; Dustin Hoffman may not be in the next Fockers movie after all; Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan are just A Couple of Cops; Robert Pattinson will romance some older ladies (control yourselves) in Bel Ami and Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender say Eyre we go again to another Bronte adaptation.
Summit Entertainment and Stephanie Meyer must have been popping champagne corks all weekend with the truly outstanding grosses for their Twilight sequel New Moon.
After grossing a scorching $26.27 million from midnight screenings on Friday the film went on to take $72.7 million for a record opening day – beating The Dark Knight’s $67 million. To put things in context the first film in the Twilight saga scored $36 million on it’s first day and banked $69 million for the weekend.
The Robert Pattinson/Kirsten Stewart film should have a »
- Niall Browne
Nicolas Cage Got Into The Spirit For 'Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans'
20 November 2009 2:30 PM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
From MTV.Com: Seventeen years ago, the legendary Harvey Keitel launched the second act of his movie career with a pair of tough-guy instant classics: Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" and Abel Ferrara's "Bad Lieutenant." A crack-pipe-smoking breath of fresh air, "Lieutenant" predated "The Shield" by a decade in telling the Nc-17 story of a junkie, gambler, killer cop on a downward spiral.
During the past year, film buffs have been up in arms over director Werner Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans." Starring Nicolas Cage as the type of at-wit's-end madman who puts a gun to an old lady's temple to get information, the flick co-stars Eva Mendes and Val Kilmer and packs one potent surprise: Although it has little to do with Keitel's movie, it is a deranged, worthy successor.
Recently, we caught up with Cage to discuss a return to his over-the-top roots »
- Larry Carroll
Dustin Hoffman Not Returning for Little Fockers?
20 November 2009 10:17 AM, PST | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
Dustin Hoffman may not be returning for the third installment of the Fockers comedy trilogy, Little Fockers. The new sequel focuses on the young Fockers (Ben Stiller and Teri Polo) struggling to raise five-year-old twins.
I thought it was understood that Hoffman and Streisand would not be returning as Bernie and Rozalin Focker, but according to Entertainment Weekly’s rumor report, there was a “very funny” cameo for Hoffman at least at the end of the film. Judging from the cringe-worthy gags in the second movie, how funny could it be?
Apparently Hoffman is not interested in cameos because the dispute is over the size of the part, as well as the scheduling and other difficulties. Streisand supposedly has a prominent role in the movie though.
I tend to agree with Hoffman. He’s an Oscar winner and a veteran actor, not some pop-in celebrity that should play second fiddle »
- Jeff Leins
Kurt Loder Reviews 'Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans'
20 November 2009 9:30 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
From MTV.Com: Do fish have dreams? Do they dream of ominous iguanas, perhaps? Or maybe the disembodied breakdancing souls of freshly capped gangsters? More to the point, will Nicolas Cage ever make another movie that makes sense? Judging by his new one, "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," and considering his current financial 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, which I'd recommend seeing before — or better yet instead of — this one, concerns a viciously bent New York City cop; and Harvey Keitel, in the title role, is the embodiment of rank, skeezy corruption. In Herzog's take on the story, the action has been relocated, for no reason at all, to New Orleans, "in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. »
- Kurt Loder
'Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans': Drug Bust, By Kurt Loder
20 November 2009 7:46 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
Nicolas Cage is ill-served by this very silly movie.
Xzibit and Nicolas Cage in "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans"
Photo: Millennium Films
Do fish have dreams? Do they dream of ominous iguanas, perhaps? Or maybe the disembodied breakdancing souls of freshly capped gangsters? More to the point, will Nicolas Cage ever make another movie that makes sense? Judging by his new one, "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," and considering his current financial 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, which I'd recommend seeing before — or better yet instead of — this one, concerns a viciously bent New York City cop; and Harvey Keitel, in the title role, is the embodiment of rank, skeezy corruption. In Herzog's take on the story, »
[Movie Review] Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
20 November 2009 1:38 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
To call Port of Call New Orleans a remake or a re-imagining of Bad Lieutenant would be a mistake; at least beyond an attempt to drum up publicity, which it definitely received when the original Bad Lieutenant’s director, Abel Ferrara, publicly wished for the deaths of everyone involved in this film. Especially that of its new helmer, the fearless Werner Herzog.
After watching the movie, it would be foolish to overlook the fact that it bears almost no resemblance to Ferrara’s film. It doesn’t even have the same titular character. Despite sharing the same moniker and the same appetite for moral compromise, Nicolas Cage’s goofy Detective McDonagh has a vastly different personality than that of Harvey Keitel’s nameless cult figure.
We first meet Cage’s drug-fueled, money-skimming maniac cop when he’s raiding a precinct’s flooded locker room in the days following Hurricane Katrina, »
- Arya Ponto
Review: ‘Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans’
19 November 2009 12:00 PM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
Not many people say it, but Nicolas Cage gets a bad rap. Often, even from me. Sure, he’s made some questionable script choices in the past, and been known for a few colorful and even over-the-top performances, but if there’s one thing he is known for, it’s consistency in a role. That’s exactly what he brings to the table with Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.
The film is an almost-modern-day reboot of the 1992 film starring Harvey Keitel. This time, rather than the rough streets of New York City, the setting has been changed to a post-Katrina New Orleans, with crime high and morals low, the only thing left to keep the streets safe is a deranged lieutenant on a path to his own personal hell.
There are certainly many problems with the film, which we’ll go into, but the most important positive thing »
- Matt Raub
Nicolas Cage Takes On 'Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans' Haters
19 November 2009 2:30 AM, PST | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
'Outside of the fact that the cop does drugs, it's quite different,' actor says to fans of the original.
Nicolas Cage in "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans"
Photo: Millennium Films
Los Angeles — Seventeen years ago, the legendary Harvey Keitel launched the second act of his movie career with a pair of tough-guy instant classics: Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" and Abel Ferrara's "Bad Lieutenant." A crack-pipe-smoking breath of fresh air, "Lieutenant" predated "The Shield" by a decade in telling the Nc-17 story of a junkie, gambler, killer cop on a downward spiral.
During the past year, film buffs have been up in arms over director Werner Herzog's "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans." Starring Nicolas Cage as the type of at-wit's-end madman who puts a gun to an old lady's temple to get information, the flick co-stars Eva Mendes and Val Kilmer »
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans Movie Review
17 November 2009 8:00 PM, PST | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »
Abel Ferrara's original Bad Lieutenant didn't really strike me as a movie that cried "sequel". It was dark, gritty, and and a little hard to watch at times, but was well worth watching, if only for a great gonzo performance from Harvey Keitel, and the scene where he pulls over two New Jersey club rats and makes them do sexually degrading things while he pleasures himself.
In Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, there's no scene quite on par with that one. It tries, that's for sure. and it's not the fault of either Nicolas Cage or the director Werner Herzog. Surprisingly, they have turned in a police procedural. Sure, it's a procedural directed by Werner Herzog, about a police officer with a drug and gambling addiction seeking redemption in his world, but it's still far more straightforward than one would expect given the "source material." The movie »
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