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Published: 15 October 2009

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IT is a super spot for watching a movie – and the films rolling on screen are particularly fitting, given the location.
Trafalgar Square is to be turned into a giant free outdoor cinema in the coming couple of weeks to help celebrate the London Film Festival.
Among the delights on offer, all with London themes, is a screening of London Moves Me – a journey through time starting in 1896, to the present day and celebrating the way we travel around our capital city. This ranges from trains and buses and cars and trams through to the more eccentric forms of transport such as a skateboard, airship and canoe. Made up of a series of short films raided from the archives, it includes the 1896 Hyde Park Cycling Scene, which features lots of Victorian ladies in long skirts having a Sunday morning two-wheeled constitutional, through to Tower Bridge Boats on the Thames, dating from 1905, showing the river as a place of work rather than leisure. Other highlights include the premiere of a remake. Werner Herzog is behind Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, due to be screened on Friday October 23. The original, by Abel Ferrara and starring Harvey Keitel as the drug addled cop with a bad gambling habit to boot, has been moved from the streets of New York to New Orleans.
Nicholas Cage steps into Keitel’s massive shoes. We learn he is one of the few cops left in the town after Katrina and has won promotion because of his stickability. But he is riddled with pain – he has damaged his back during the hurricane – and develops a rather nasty habit for prescription drugs, supplemented by Class A narcotics to help him get through the day. Cage has gone terribly off the boil since his early days of such wonderful films as Red Rock West – word has it that Bad Lieutenant is a long awaited return to form.
• www.bfi.org.uk/lff

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