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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2009 · Film · 122 min
Directed by Werner Herzog
Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.
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I can't get past the "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" episode. This was Herzog's "re-imagining" of the great film by Abel Ferrara. Ferrara was infuriated, as he had not authorized a remake and was paid a token amount for rights. The kicker: in interviews, Herzog claimed, bizarrely, not only to have not seen the original, but never even to have heard of Ferrara. I realize that many people greatly admire Herzog's work, but there is clearly something wrong with him.
I second this. I've been getting more into his films lately. One of my favorites so far is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Ecstasy_of_Woodcarver_Steiner. It's a documentary about ski-jumping -- something I tend to think about at most once every four years (if that much), and never thought was terribly interesting. Herzog, through an impressive combination of narration, music, and photography, turns it into an almost mystical experience.
Then there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Lieutenant:_Port_of_Call_New_Orleans ...