An anecdote buried in the press notes for Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans attributes either an uncanny prescience or cynical revisionism to Werner Herzog. Between his experience in the devastated Crescent City and his attempt to lease a car, the filmmaker basically wants you to believe he foresaw the current recession. "I had never borrowed money, and hardly ever used a credit card, and my bank account was not in the red," Herzog writes, trying to explain a high interest rate he received at the auto dealership. "But the system punished you for not owing money, and rewarded those who did. I realized that the entire system was sick, that this could not go well, and I instantly withdrew money I had invested in stock of Lehman Brothers while a bank manager, ecstatic, with shuddering urgency, was trying to persuade me to buy even more of it." [Looker]