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The Werner Herzog, Jr. awards.
Thu, Nov 19 2009 5:00 AM

"The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" open Friday, Werner Herzog's supposed latest exercise in unhinged lunacy. But as a colleague observed after a screening, "If you didn't know going in Herzog had made it, would you be able to tell?" I'd say probably not: there's none of his trademark stunning footage that was clearly... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Sacha Baron Cohen, Werner Herzog, Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans, Zeitgeist, Son of a Lion, Sergey Dvortsevoy, Christian Poveda

The brothers who brought you "Bad Lieutenant."
Fri, Nov 13 2009 6:00 AM

Alan Polsky wanted to tell me a story about how Werner Herzog held a gun to his head and shattered his brother Gabe's eye socket with the butt of the pistol in the middle of shooting "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," but that was just wishful thinking. "We wanted things to go crazy so that we could tell great on-set stories like ... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Bad Lieutenant, Werner Herzog, Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans, Coming attractions, Abel Ferrara, Alan Polsky, Gabe Polsky

Buying in and selling out.
Fri, Sep 18 2009 5:30 PM

The Toronto International Film Festival ends tomorrow, but most journalists have already skipped ahead to extrapolating trends. There's much loose talk about potential Oscar front-runners -- "Up In The Air" apparently has a lock -- and much free-floating despair about the tough climate for making, purchasing and marketing indie films. But at least... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Critic watch, Steven Soderbergh, Werner Herzog, Todd Solondz, Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans, Toronto 2009, Chloe, Atom Egoyan, Ivan Reitman, The Informant!

Werner Herzog declares war. Again.
Wed, Sep 16 2009 4:45 PM

No content to simply pick a fight with Abel Ferrara, whose 1992 film may or may not have provided source material for his own, Werner Herzog is now using the press kit for "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" to launch barbs at the academics in the audience who dare to compare the two. The Wrap has an excerpt from the apparently awesome director's... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Bad Lieutenant, Werner Herzog, Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans, Controversy, Abel Ferrara

Werner Herzog and Abel Ferrara want to know who's "Bad."
Fri, Sep 4 2009 2:29 PM

So the long-awaited "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans" -- the Werner Herzog movie whose absurdist trailer has been an Internet favorite for months now -- is finally dropping at the Venice and Telluride festivals and, predictably, people are generally underwhelmed. This is what happens when people more familiar with Herzog's reputation than... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Werner Herzog, Venice 2009, Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans, Coming attractions, Abel Ferrara

Is it time for a return to noir?
Thu, Aug 20 2009 10:10 AM

Earlier this year there was a spate of trend pieces on what the recession would mean for film. Would Hollywood slim down? Revive lighthearted comedy? The recession's officially slowing (or over, according to the IMF), but that doesn't mean predictions have to, and the latest involved more movie doom and gloom for all. So says the Telegraph's Matthew... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Werner Herzog, Nicolas Cage, Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans, Zeitgeist, Battlestar Galactica, The Wire

Herzog/Lynch > Herzog/Ferrara.
Mon, Aug 17 2009 1:05 PM

The cracktastic footage and ongoing directorial snippiness have made "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," Werner Herzog's maybe remake of Abel Ferrara's 1992 drama, one of the most anticipated films set to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival (though it'll first premiere at Venice). And who could outdo Bavaria's finest... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Watchy, Werner Herzog, David Lynch, Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans, Michael Shannon, Abel Ferrara, Mark Yarovsky, Toronto 2009, Grace Zabriskie, My Son My Son What Have Ye Done

Fortified with philosophy.
Tue, Jul 7 2009 11:58 AM

Time's Steve Snyder sits down for an interview with Werner Herzog, available in print and also as a video, to talk about the filmmaker's new book "Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo," put together from the journal he kept during production of the film. There's much signature Herzog verbiage: "I have... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Watchy, Werner Herzog, Fitzcarraldo, Conquest of the Useless, Cooking With Werner, Jim Jarmusch

Odds: "Film is a lying media."
Fri, Aug 15 2008 5:15 PM

Werner Herzog could have a solid side career doing Q&As. At Esquire, Stephen Garrett moderates a conversation between the director and his longtime friend, the subject of "Man on Wire," tightrope artist Philippe Petit: PP: Do you remember the first films you saw? WH: Yes--both of them bad and disappointing. One was about Eskimos building an igloo... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Odds, Philippe Petit, Man on Wire, Chang Chen, Shu Qi, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Hou Hsiao-hsien, AFI Catalog, The Assassin, Werner Herzog