SESSION: Wednesday 28th March at 7:30pm



Bad Lieutenant

(1992, dir. Abel Ferrara, w/ Harvey Keitel, Brian McElroy, Frank Acciarito, Peggy Gormley)

A police Lieutenant goes about his daily tasks of investigating homicides, but is more interested in pursuing his vices. He has accumulated a massive debt betting on baseball, and he keeps doubling to try to recover. His bookies are beginning to get agitated. The Lieutenant does copious amounts of drugs, cavorts with prostitutes, and uses his status to take advantage of teenage girls. While investigating a nun's rape, he begins to reflect on his lifestyle. (IMDB)

FILM INFO 3.553.553.553.55(IMDB rating)

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

(2009, dir. Werner Herzog, w/ Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Xzibit)

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans will start at approximately 9:32pm, and finish at approximately 11:40pm.

After Katrina, police sergeant Terence McDonagh rescues a prisoner, hurts his back in the process and earns a promotion to lieutenant plus an addiction to cocaine and painkillers. Six months later, a family is murdered over drugs; Terence runs the investigation. His drug-using prostitute girlfriend, his alcoholic father's dog, run-ins with two old women and a well-connected john, gambling losses, a nervous young witness, and thefts of police property put Terence's job and then his life in danger. He starts seeing things. He wants a big score to get out from under mounting debts, so he joins forces with drug dealers. The murders remain unsolved. A bad lieutenant gets worse. (IMDB)

FILM INFO 3.33.33.33.3(IMDB rating)