Bringing Out the Dead
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own. From TMDB
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60 of 149 · most liked firstMovie Frame Study i've just finished for Tristen The Argonian, ref frame is from Bringing Out the Dead, thank you for checking it out ^^
unlabelledView post →Bringing Out the Dead (1999) 🎬🖤 Directed by Martin Scorsese
unlabelledView post →"Human actors have become irrelevant," says film director whose last hit movie was Bringing Out the Dead, released in [checks notes] 1999.
unlabelledView post →Bringing Out the Dead (1999) Directed by Martin Scorsese
unlabelledView post →Bringing Out the Dead is another major Scorsese movie for me too
unlabelledView post →"While Scorsese's BRINGING OUT THE DEAD is ultimately about many things—suffering, guilt, compassion, redemption—it’s those eyes, throughout the movie and long afterwards, that stay with you." - @chadperman.bsky.social #filmsky #moviesky #scorsese
unlabelledView post →I found this out doing research for my Bringing Out the Dead piece last year (Scorsese’s next film after Kundun), but I also lived through it when I couldn’t find a theater to see it when it was released in 1997 (without knowing the context). It sucked and it still sucks—justice for Kundun!
unlabelledView post →"While Martin Scorese's BRINGING OUT THE DEAD is ultimately about many things—suffering, guilt, compassion, redemption—it’s Cage's eyes, throughout the movie and long afterwards, that stay with you. - @chadperman.bsky.social
unlabelledView post →Every year I try to do my part to replace "is ___ a Christmas movie" discourse with "is Bringing Out The Dead an A Christmas Carol adaptation" and "is the Christmas that the Grinch stole a celebration of Whoville's savior Horton the Elephant" discourse but it never takes. (answer key: yes yes yes)
unlabelledView post →"While Martin Scorsese's BRINGING OUT THE DEAD is ultimately about many things—suffering, guilt, compassion, redemption—it’s Cage's eyes, throughout the movie and long afterwards, that stay with you." - @chadperman.bsky.social
unlabelledView post →I know (different) people that worked on After Hours & Bringing Out the Dead. Mostly nights; third shift film shoots are rough. After Hours + Bringing Out the Dead are both hallucinatory trips fueled by lack of sleep + zero daylight; one could say Scorsese goes on the same journey his characters do
unlabelledView post →Asked my 30 y paramedic CPR instructor what the best paramedic movie was and, without a moments hesitation, said it was Bringing Out the Dead.
unlabelledView post →I saw Scorcese's Bringing Out the Dead again recently and realized I didn't appreciate how brilliant the film is visually and emotionally. It's one amazing ride through NYC at night at its grittiest best, and Nick Cages' struggle with guilt and redemption. So underrated. #MartinScorcese #BOTD
unlabelledView post →Tonight's film: Martin Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead.
unlabelledView post →I talked about my love of Bringing Out The Dead on the Underrated podcast. This was Nic Cage's Superman movie. What those movies try to do, showing what it's like to see, hear and feel everything all at once while knowing you can't save everyone? This film gets right.
unlabelledView post →this is an incredibly difficult choice, but I’m gonna have to rep a cult classic - Martin Scorsese’s 1999 film Bringing Out The Dead, starring Nic Cage as a burnt out FDNY paramedic having a slow motion nervous breakdown over the course of a week of overnight ambo shifts
unlabelledView post →I'd once jokingly pitched Bringing Out The Dead: The Animated series. I contend the first Scorsese film is a stealth A Christmas Carol remake, so I wanted to stealth-adapt the rest. When I became director of BeFM Drama I tried to see if I could trick Korea into funding my fanfiction. I did.
unlabelledView post →Bringing Out The Dead is a great, tight little movie full of people you love seeing in other things. Paramount did a 4K of it recently and the digital copy goes on sale a lot. You should watch it!
unlabelledView post →gun to my head, most beautifully shot movie of all time? Bringing Out the Dead
unlabelledView post →RAISING ARIZONA is a contender for my favorite *movie* so that's an easy number 1, but BRINGING OUT THE DEAD, PIG, MOONSTRUCK, and ADAPTATION are all up there
unlabelledView post →Working on the 1999 collection on #criterionchannel. This was the year I graduated high school and really got into film, so some of these movies were my first "real" films, like The Virgin Suicides & The Insider & Bringing Out the Dead stand out as early moments when I was building my taste.
unlabelledView post →I can listen to Van Morrison’s “T.B. Sheets” on loop for hours. First heard it in the film “Bringing Out the Dead” and have loved it ever since.
unlabelledView post →Bringing Out The Dead doesn't get its due, both as a Scorsese film and as a film capturing the spirit of the late 90s, with possibly Nicholas Cage's best performance. It's surprisingly gothic in atmosphere and manages to capture Scorsese's twin passions of New York grime and human spirituality.
unlabelledView post →Bringing Out the Dead: letterboxd.com/estradialup/...
unlabelledView post →I watched Bringing Out the Dead last night, a film that when it came out I felt like few ppl saw and even fewer liked; but I still like it. It's a surreal, stylish trip of a film, but w/ deep emotional roots & great performances (incl Nic Cage)/ Recommended (Warning: LOTS of flashing lights)
unlabelledView post →King of Comedy and Age of Innocence and Bringing Out the Dead and the Aviator and Silence and Shutter Island and After Hours and Goodfellas - basically the same movie
unlabelledView post →Happy birthday to Martin Scorsese! Here's our BRINGING OUT THE DEAD episode in celebration. It was our first ever time seeing the movie and it knocked us both out. genrevision.com/posts/bringi...
unlabelledView post →Bringing Out The Dead (1999), Scorsese’s undersung second collaboration with the great Paul Schrader. A dark night of the soul movie that has influenced much of how I have made sense of my adult life, dark times, and the beautiful bruised messy business of being human. We’re all dying, Mary Burke.
unlabelledView post →BRINGING OUT THE DEAD - PROBABLY! But his best performance is PIG.
unlabelledView post →The night of my mom's funeral, I wanted something fast and goofy to get my mind off the last few weeks of her life, which were spent on a respirator. So I rented Bringing Out the Dead. Boy, was *that* the wrong film for the occasion.
unlabelledView post →Sacred artifact. To think someone might have watched this FYC tape and then cast a vote for American Beatuty. Bringing Out the Dead is one of the best Scorsese movies.
unlabelledView post →Cage without a doubt has certainly the most interesting film career with a ton classics (The Rock, Wild at Heart, Moonstruck, Con Air, Adaptation, Gone in 60 Seconds, 8mm, Bringing Out the Dead, Face/Off, and Leaving Las Vegas for which he won a deserved Oscar (and sold it)). 116 casted roles. #hatm
unlabelledView post →Bringing Out the Dead is Scorsese's best movie. It loves its fucked-up city and the messy people in it so much. It's a raw nerve about trying to give a shit when everyone is triaging each other. Criminally underrated. Watch it now. Giuliani killed the place it existed in, and that's unforgivable.
unlabelledView post →Post you favorite movie poster of all time. Truthfully I have no clue what mine is. It's probably Bringing Out the Dead, but I just posted that one the other day. So check out this rad as hell poster for a ho-hum Ray Milland western
unlabelledView post →"Is Bringing Out The Dead A Christmas Carol" should be the new "Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie?" (The answer is yes it is, and I can't believe it was left off the @screendrafts.bsky.social A Christmas Carol Draft.)
unlabelledView post →BEST MOVIE 2 What's the best movie by... Martin Scorsese? He has also made tons of excellent movies, but my personal favorite has to be 'Bringing Out the Dead'. It's probably the least well-known of his more recent work, and that is really a shame; it's so unique and unconventional.
unlabelledView post →On this day in movie history: Bringing Out the Dead directed by Martin Scorsese released October 22, 1999. Cast: Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore, Marc Anthony, Mary Beth Hurt, Cliff Curtis, Nestor Serrano, Aida Turturro, Sonja Sohn, Cynthia Roman. #Drama
unlabelledView post →It’s kind of wild that almost 25 years after its release, BRINGING OUT THE DEAD still hasn’t gotten its due. Like tomorrow if it was reported that Scorsese, Schrader, and Cage were making a movie, people would lose their damn minds.
unlabelledView post →Watching the digital 4K UHD of Bringing Out the Dead
unlabelledView post →OMFG ITS BRINGING OUT THE DEAD tonight. I ADORE this weird movie and have ever since I saw it in college.
unlabelledView post →What's your favorite Nicolas Cage movie? there are so many to choose from, basically one for any mood or occasion. I bounce between 8mm, Bringing Out the Dead, Face/Off or Pig. Raising Arizona, Moonstruck, National Treasure, Con Air... They all have their place and time. He's so fun.
unlabelledView post →Bringing Out the Dead Casino After Hours The Irishman Taxi Driver Film people please don't get mad at my obviously idiosyncratic tastes.
unlabelledView post →I did laugh thinking about the one person in the audience just sitting there, waiting for hours, “can’t wait to see what he has to say about Bringing Out the Dead!,” and it’s the only movie completely glossed over
unlabelledView post →Introduce yourself using only one book, one film, and one band or artist that you love: There Is No Antimemetics Division // qntm Bringing Out the Dead Meshuggah www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/783041... www.imdb.com/title/tt0163... www.meshuggah.net
unlabelledView post →#bales2025moviechallenge - first responder Bringing Out the Dead (1999) 48 hours in the life of a depressed NYC paramedic. This is not the first film you think of when you hear Paul Schrader, Nicolas Cage or Martin Scorsese. But it’s a fun one.
unlabelledView post →The River Oak Theatre's month of Marty officially comes to an end tonight with a 9 PM screening of BRINGING OUT THE DEAD. Scorsese, Schrader, explorations of haunted humanity and a desperate grasp towards purpose and faith. Yep, it's an all-timer. www.theriveroakstheatre.com/movie/RiverO...
unlabelledView post →Oh, so many. Battle of Algiers Matango Embrace of the Serpent Memories of Murder Red Beard Punishment Park 3-Iron Stroszek Still Life Pusher 2 Suspiria remake Bringing Out the Dead Eureka Miracles Enemy Noroi Mean Creek Slow West Hunter in the Dark Ronin-gai Jesus' Son Changing Lanes Noah Etc.
unlabelledView post →I have a lot of time for him in Bringing Out the Dead (1999), but I can't say I've ever watched a Nic Cage film where he wasn't at least entertaining, even in goofier stuff like The Wicker Man remake, Willie's Wonderland, or Mandy. He was also really good in Looking Glass (2018).
unlabelledView post →Bringing Out the Dead is a Christmas movie
unlabelledView post →36. Bringing Out the Dead 1999: the title and box art are for the wrong movie. This is Scorsese’s The Pitt. Amazing soundtrack. Outstanding cast. Equal parts ridiculous and real. This might be the best so far. This might be my new favorite movie. This might be your new favorite movie. 10/10 beers.
unlabelledView post →The Millionaire Who Left Wall Street to Become a Paramedic www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/n... < this is a damn good story and makes me think of my favourite Scorsese movie, Bringing Out the Dead (gift link)
unlabelledView post →Paul Schrader, the screenwriter of "Taxi Driver", "Raging Bull", and "Bringing Out the Dead" directed a transcendent film "Mishima: a Life in Four Chapters" about the Mishima's life, his art, and his last day on Earth www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzaX...
unlabelledView post →Filling a Scorsese/Schrader sized hole in my filmography and seeing Bringing Out The Dead in 35mm. One of the most interesting bar conversations I ever had was with an EMT at the Sly Fox on 2nd Ave at 4 AM. I suspect this movie is gonna be like that.
unlabelledView post →Turberculosis outbreak in Kansas, apparently. Terrible… however this monumental 1960s track just came up on Apple Music… I think it was in a movie I saw recently, possibly Scorsese’s “Bringing Out the Dead”. Good song! youtu.be/t8yH5tFLVvw?...
unlabelledView post →After this, I'll stop, promise, but another for the three-day list is Bringing Out the Dead. I think it's Scorsese's most underrated film, if such a thing could exist.
unlabelledView post →I saw Bringing Out The Dead in the theater - great film, very underappreciated. Gone in 60 Seconds was nowhere near as good as the 1974 low budget masterpiece. Windtalkers was decent. #hatm
unlabelledView post →So is BRINGING OUT THE DEAD. When I saw it in 1999, it came out the same decade as GOODFELLAS; CASINO; and CAPE FEAR. The Nic Cage film kind of faded in the background back then. I rewatched it several times the last decade and it's now a top 5 Scorsese film for me.
unlabelledView post →(Got a four-week stretch coming up that saw NYC theaters show FIGHT CLUB, SAME OLD SONG, SHOW ME LOVE, THE STRAIGHT STORY, BRINGING OUT THE DEAD, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, PRINCESS MONONOKE, AMERICAN MOVIE, THE INSIDER, and ROSETTA.)
unlabelledView post →Introduce yourself with: One book: Bringing Out the Dead One film: Pulse (回路 - Kairo, 2001) One album: Isis - Panopticon One TV show: The Haunting of Hill House
unlabelledView post →Film 95 in the cinema of 2023! #TonightsMovie at GFT with @battles.bsky.social is Martin Scorsese's Bringing Out The Dead, from the novel by Joe Connelly, and starring Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore, Marc Anthony, and Cliff Curtis
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