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Here is a trailer of Bad Lieutenant (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans) by Werner Herzog with Nicholas Cage and Eva Mendes and Val Kilmer and rapper Xzibit as well. Release date of this movie was 11 September 2009 (in Italy).
In the clip disclosed virtually all features (include the iguanas). Sam Herzog said that he always liked to shoot animals in his films, and iguanas are so strange and stupid that he just could not resist. Although why they were there he does not know – he just likes them and all that staff. Maybe some actors do the same?
Popularity: unranked [?]
USA, 114 min, b&w
Howard Hawks (Director)
I slowly come to the end of classic Noire movies’ primary list and tonight I watched one of the American critics’ favorite – The big sleep. And admit I am slightly stumbled but more about that below.
So, we have screening a Raymond Chandler’s novel about of course the private detective adventures. His name is Philip Marlowe. The movie is famous first of all because three months after the shootings two of its main actors Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall married. That was probably the cause of some family squabbles so Bogart was on a bender during the entire shooting period. In those rare moments when he was able to appear on the set, I suspect camera lens steamed from his morning-after breath. But the film is not about that, of course.
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Popularity: 5% [?]
Halle Berry (born August 14, 1966) is an American actress, former fashion model, and beauty queen. Berry has received Emmy and Golden Globe awards for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge and an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2001 for her performance in Monster’s Ball, becoming the first and, as of 2009, only woman of African American descent to have won the award for Best Actress. She is one of the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood and also a Revlon spokeswoman. She has also been involved in the production side of several of her films.
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Popularity: 33% [?]
Elizabeth Jane Hurley (born 10 June 1965) is an English model and former actress who became known as a girlfriend of Hugh Grant in the 1990s.
Born in Basingstoke, Hurley was a struggling actress in 1987, when she met Grant while working on a Spanish production called Remando Al Viento. In 1994, Grant became the focus of worldwide media attention due to the global box office success of his film Four Weddings and a Funeral. Hurley accompanied him to the film’s London premiere and was noted for wearing a plunging black Versace dress held together with gold safety pins. According to The Guardian, Hurley was “then known as ‘Hugh Grant’s girlfriend,’ now known as ‘Hugh Grant’s former girlfriend,’” due to their high-profile romantic relationship that ended in 2000.
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Popularity: 35% [?]
USA, 112 min, b&w
Orson Welles (Director)
It is common opinion to take Touch of Evil the most recent classic Noire movie – the first was Maltese Falcon (1941) directed by John Huston.
Touch of Evil is also called the greatest B-Movie of all times. That’s quit funny for all who already read director’s name, but it’s true – in defiance of all common sense this movie was distributed as an additional bonus to ordinary drama The Female Animal and the US audience staid indifferent to it.
The reaction of rest of the world (and mine) on Touch of Evil differs.
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Popularity: 33% [?]
USA, 88 min, b&w
Robert Siodmak (Director)
As it was common for the Hollywood 30-40’s, the German Jewish director Robert Siodmak ran through the Atlantic in the United States not only to find work and refuge from Hitler, but also create a number of movies that made huge influence in one of genres, in this case – Noire. Overall, he filmed eight classical Noire movies, which is considered the greatest achievement of its kind (along with Fritz Lang).
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Popularity: 41% [?]
USA, 84 min, color.
Wes Craven (Director/Writer)
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Popularity: 100% [?]