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List Price: $9.98 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 22 October, 1999 DVD Release : 09 May, 2000 |
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Bringing Out the Dead description Martin Scorsese comes home to the mean streets of New York with Bringing Out the Dead, the hyperkinetic tale of an ambulance driver (Nicolas Cage) on three sleep-deprived, adrenaline-fueled nights amongst the dead and dying of the city. Less a coherent narrative than a mood piece, the film is a welcome return to form for Scorsese, who takes Joe Connelly's memoir and spins it into a slightly surreal, darkly comic tale of one man's redemption. Frank Pierce (Cage) is a man who feels impotent in his job as an EMT--less a lifesaver, he's more of a grief mop as he sardonically puts it, bearing witness to the pain and suffering of others. Haunted by the specter of a young homeless girl, something stirs in Frank when he meets Mary (Patricia Arquette), the daughter of a heart attack victim Frank attends to. In a world where human interaction usually means putting someone on a stretcher, or bantering frenetically with his coworkers, Frank seems headed for certain physical and nervous collapse. Scorsese, screenwriter Paul Schrader (of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull), and cinematographer Robert Richardson put a vivid spin on the New York of the early 90s with amazing visual flair and keen, economical storytelling. The film practically pulses with life, and hits the perfect note of ragged exhaustion. Cage, after a recent career slump, turns in an exceptional performance, by turns manic and weary. In fact, this is one of the best casts ever assembled for a Scorsese film: in addition to the quietly effective Arquette, there are great performances by John Goodman, Ving Rhames, and Tom Sizemore as Cage's ambulance partners, as well as Mary Beth Hurt (as an ER doctor), pop star Marc Anthony (as a drug addict), and especially Cliff Curtis (as a drug dealer who winds up in an unusual scrape). It's not a masterpiece in the vein of Taxi Driver, but Bringing Out the Dead ranks as a stunning Scorsese joyride. --Mark Englehart |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | Scorsese and Cage: Howling at the Moon |
| This is a rediculously underrated and little-seen gem of a movie. Scorsese, just coming off of the comparably subdued Kundun and Age of Innocence, returns to his roots recruiting fellow outlaw Paul Schrader for a crazy, religious, surreal film full of everything that the New York night has to offer. The story is basicaly the archityplical Scorsese situation: the lone social misfit must travel a road of violence and guilt to find redemption from a woman who is the embodiement of madonna/harlot. In Taxi Driver a taxi was the hero's chariot that takes him on his journey, in Casino it was an exploding car, in The Aviator it was the dream of the spruce goose's impossible flight, here it's an ambulence that carries him into the night. This film's night pulses with an insane energy and life-force and Scorsese captures every dirty, gritty, lunatic moment of it and throws it back in your face with an obscene relish. Nearly every frame of this movie throbs with electricity as Cage's character is tempted to do the right thing, the apathetic thing, or (literally) throw down the gear-shift and speed off screaming into the night (upside-down no less) in a scene that is remniscent of "Slackers" where a camera is thrown off of a cliff. Now sure this film is extremely kinetic and the in-your-face grit and violence won't do anything for anyone who gets excited at the thought of staying home on a Saturday night for a Merchant-Ivory marathon, but if you're willing to take the plunge then Scorsese is more than willing to light some fire works in your brain. | |
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