Feb 04 2025 60 mins 2
The ninth episode of our special retrospective 20th season looks back to the awesome movie year of 1992 with the third of our producer Dave’s three picks, Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant. Directed and co-written by Abel Ferrara and starring Harvey Keitel, Frankie Thorn, Zoë Lund and Victor Argo, Bad Lieutenant premiered at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.
The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/bad-lieutenant-1993), Janet Maslin in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/20/movies/review-film-jaded-cop-raped-nun-bad-indeed.html), and Desson Thomson in The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/badlieutenantnc17howe_a0af64.htm).
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