FILM 1378: UPSTREAM COLOR

TRIVIA: The film that Kris is editing at the beginning of the movie is A Topiary, the film that Shane Carruth had begun production on before deciding to film Upstream Color instead.

FILM 1337: BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS

TRIVIA: In a June 2008 interview with The Guardian, Abel Ferrara, who directed and co-wrote the original Bad Lieutenant (1992), said that finding out his movie was being remade was "a horrible feeling", "like when you get robbed", and that those involved in this remake "should all die in hell". He also wondered how Nicolas Cage "can even have the nerve to play Harvey Keitel", and called screenwriter William M. Finkelstein an idiot. Herzog responded that he had never seen the original and had never heard of Ferrara.

Nicolas Cage claims that he was never under the influence of anything throughout filming, in contrast to Leaving Las Vegas (1995) in which he got genuinely drunk to play an alcoholic.

According to the Werner Herzog, 2,400 cans of decaf coffee had to be used to make the water appear to be river water in the jail scene. They first attempted to use a paint, but it proved to be toxic, then the production team used regular coffee, but the actor absorbed it through his skin.

FILM 1207: INFERNAL AFFAIRS

TRIVIA: The psychiatrist's name, "Lee Sum Yee", is a homophone (in Cantonese) for "your psychiatrist".

When Yan and SP Wong are waiting at the elevator, the digital floor counter skips the 4th floor. In China and Hong Kong, the number 4 is considered bad luck because it sounds similar to the word 'death'.

FILM 1101: BANSHEE CHAPTER

REVIEW: I’m really glad I didn’t look at the IMDB page before watching this otherwise I never would have watched it.  The poster and rating are awful but the film in places is genuinely scary and thought provoking.  In some places it doesn’t make sense and it doesn’t explain everything at the end but it was real enough to have me hiding behind my cat and I haven’t been scared by a film for a long time.  I would recommend it for the jumps alone.