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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call new orleans
Convention
USA
Ravaged city, ravaged man. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,
USA
Over 50,000 guests – including 20,000 members of the press, 15,000
Director: Werner Herzog
corrupt cop Terence McDonagh, beautifully played by Nicolas Cage,
Director: AJ Schnack delegates plus as many volunteers, 10,000 VIPs, and countless protes-
Producers: Stephen Belafonte,
hobbles around a devastated New Orleans burdened by a badly injured
Producers: AJ Schnack, Jennifer Chikes, tors – descended on Denver, Colorado, from August 25 to 28 for the
Nicolas Cage, Alan Polsky, Gabe Polsky,
back, fierce addictions to Vicodin and cocaine, and a crazed dedication
Britta Erickson, Shirley Moyers
2008 Democratic National Convention. As city mayor John Hickenlooper
Edward R. Pressman, John Thompson
to his job that eats away at him like another desperate habit. When
Cinematographers: AJ Schnack, challenged his staff to produce “the best convention ever,” a handful
Screenwriter: William M. Finkelstein
McDonagh’s not trying to bring down a dangerous crime boss, he’s
Nathan Truesdell
of filmmakers were on the ground, cameras rolling, with an all-access
Cinematographer: Peter Zeitlinger
ripping off small-time drug dealers to augment his own stash, pulling
Editors: Nathan Truesdell, AJ Schnack
pass to capture exactly what it takes to fulfill such a daunting directive.
Editor: Joe Bini
his gun on an old ladies in rest homes, and imagining iguanas crawling
Cast: John Hickenlooper, Kevin Scott, Among them was festival returnee AJ Schnack (Gigantic, SDFF 25; About
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Val Kilmer,
on his coffee table.
Chantal Unfug, Allison Sherry,
a Son, SDFF 29).
Eva Mendes, Fairuza Balk,
Barbara Cohen, Mark Cohen
Jennifer Coolidge, Brad Dourif
With this remake, venerable German auteur Werner Herzog
2009 / color / 95 min.
Convention takes the audience on a whirlwind trip behind the scenes of
one of the largest and most important events in not only Denver’s his-
2009 / color / 121 min.
(Fitzcarraldo; Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Rescue Dawn, SDFF 29)
has infuriated fellow director Abel Ferrara, who set the original Bad
tory but that of the nation. Schnack and his crew split up to concentrate
aJ SChnaCK
Lieutenant in 1992 on the streets of New York. In the Ferrara version,
With two award-winning music
separately on three very different yet essential branches of the conven-
WErnEr hErzoG
Harvey Keitel was the cop wallowing in a world of hurt, plagued by documentaries, Kurt Cobain About A
tion process: the mayor’s office, The Denver Post’s corps of political
Born in 1942 in Munich, Germany,
Catholic guilt but still snorting coke off his daughter’s First Communion
Son (2006) and Gigantic (A Tale of Two journalists, and the activist group Recreate ’68 – each composed of
Werner Herzog has had a long and
card. Cage, by contrast, is Dirty Harry on crack (literally), breaking all
Johns) (2002), under his belt, AJ Schnack
whom Schnack calls, “in the best sense of the phrase, everyday people.
distinguished career as a director and
has gone to write and edit All These
the rules and still sharp enough to rag his paunchy sidekick (Val Kilmer)
They could be your next-door neighbors. Yet here they are, tasked with
screenwriter, named by Entertainment
Wonderful Things, perhaps the most
with dark jokes one moment and try to save his troubled girlfriend,
Weekly as the 35th Greatest Director
widely read resource for nonfiction
the biggest event of the millennium.”
of All Time. He is the only feature film
prostitute Eva Mendes, the next. “Shoot him again,” he orders during a filmmaking online, as well as to found
The momentum of the film never lessens, its coverage leading from the
director to have made a film on every
confrontation with one bad guy. “His soul is still dancing.”
and cochair the annual Cinema Eye
week before the convention commences right up to the moment of
continent and has won over 30 awards
Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking.
Barack Obama’s acceptance speech, as tears of hope stream down the
for filmmaking, including a Best Director
For Herzog, such behavioral extremes have always been the order of
award at Cannes for Fitzcarraldo in
the day, in his characters and in himself. This is, after all, a filmmaker
faces of those for whom it is all just beginning to sink in. Convention
1982. who once leapt naked onto a bed of cactus spines to demonstrate the
offers a remarkably up close and personal look at the arduous yet
depth of his commitment to cast and crew (never mind the time he
thrilling endeavor that is the political process in the United States of
Selected Filmography
ate his shoe upon losing a bet). The outcries of Abel Ferrara and the
America.
Grizzly Man (2005)
film cultists who love the original Bad Lieutenant have apparently not
Invincible (2001)
My Best Fiend (1999)
disturbed him one bit.
In cooperation with:
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Documentary Cinema institute and Kent Denver Alumni Association
Sponsored by:
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Stroszek (1977)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
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