Bad Lieutenant

Bad Lieutenant (1992), Director's Cut, directed by Abel Ferrara, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, original theatrical stereo, commentary track, and English subtitles.

IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103759/

Video encoded in two-pass 9 500 kbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image.

English subtitles OCRed, proofed and corrected.

Note : How about some transgressive feel-bad 90s independent film? A mix of the "grimy New York City" subgenre so popular in the 70s and 80s with a touch of nunsploitation and a sort of redemptive Catholic story, it all hinges on an an amazing performance by Harvey Keitel, whose police Lieutenant investigating the rape of a nun while whoring, gambling, and consuming enormous amounts of drugs and alcohol is by turns thoroughly nasty and self-destructively pitiable. Poor, doomed Zoë Tamerlis Lund co-wrote the script with Abel Ferrara, and shows up in the film as the Lieutenant's dealer/enabler, as well as smaller roles by Victor Argo and Paul Calderón.

This isn't the best looking transfer, with somewhat crushed blacks and a slightly muddy general appearance, but the flaws kind of fit the mood of the film, so it's not too bad. Check out Ferrara's commentary track for quite a bit of information about the production and indie filmmaking of the period in general.

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