Travolta/Cage #51: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (with Jamelle Bouie)

After a too-long hiatus, Nathan and Clint are back, with a new episode and new approach!

Since Travolta and Cage's output are going to, well, dramatically differ in pace in the most recent decade of their careers, we're gonna double up on Cage movies, and let Travolta catch up as we reach the years he puts out new flicks. 

But that also gives us time to zero in on some late-career classics, including Werner Herzog's hypnotic crime drama Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans! Easily one of the most bugfuck movies of the 2000s, this very-much-not-a-sequel to the Abel Ferrara flick sees Nicolas Cage as a strungout New Orleans detective working a murder case while jonesing for his next fix the entire time. It's as nuts as you'd expect, but also drips with seedy atmosphere and lurid charm -- aided, of course, by Cage at his bug-eyed best.

Luckily, our souls don't dance along on this odyssey, as New York Times columnist and cultural critic extraordinaire Jamelle Bouie hops on the boat to the Big Easy to help us dig into its deceptive, Cagetastic appeal.

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