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Bringing Out the Dead
Directed by Martin Scorsese
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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Bringing Out the Dead is a 1999 drama film, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette and John Goodman.
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60 of 178 · 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 ^^
neutral · AI labelView post →Bringing Out the Dead (1999) 🎬🖤 Directed by Martin Scorsese
neutral · AI labelView post →"Human actors have become irrelevant," says film director whose last hit movie was Bringing Out the Dead, released in [checks notes] 1999.
neutral · AI labelView post →Bringing Out the Dead (1999) Directed by Martin Scorsese
neutral · AI labelView post →Bringing Out the Dead is another major Scorsese movie for me too
positive · AI labelView 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
neutral · AI labelView 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!
negative · AI labelView 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
neutral · AI labelView post →If you haven't seen BRINGING OUT THE DEAD, please use this opportunity to do so. One of the greatest films of 1999 and that's saying something. Loved doing it on @genrevision.com.
positive · AI labelView 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)
neutral · AI labelView 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
neutral · AI labelView 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
neutral · AI labelView 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.
neutral · AI labelView 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
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight's film: Martin Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead.
neutral · AI labelView 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.
positive · AI labelView 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
positive · AI labelView 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.
neutral · AI labelView post →if you’ve never seen Banderas in an Almodóvar movie, you need to do that. For Cage—Bringing Out the Dead, Bad Lieutenant, Pig.
neutral · AI labelView 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!
positive · AI labelView post →gun to my head, most beautifully shot movie of all time? Bringing Out the Dead
positive · AI labelView 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
neutral · AI labelView 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.
neutral · AI labelView 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.
neutral · AI labelView 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.
positive · AI labelView post →Bringing Out the Dead: letterboxd.com/estradialup/...
neutral · AI labelView 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)
positive · AI labelView post →Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: Bringing Out the Dead for Tax Purposes
neutral · AI labelView 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
neutral · AI labelView 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...
neutral · AI labelView 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.
positive · AI labelView post →BRINGING OUT THE DEAD - PROBABLY! But his best performance is PIG.
neutral · AI labelView 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.
negative · AI labelView 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.
positive · AI labelView 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
neutral · AI labelView 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.
positive · AI labelView 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
neutral · AI labelView 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.)
neutral · AI labelView 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.
positive · AI labelView 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
neutral · AI labelView 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.
positive · AI labelView post →Watching the digital 4K UHD of Bringing Out the Dead
neutral · AI labelView post →OMFG ITS BRINGING OUT THE DEAD tonight. I ADORE this weird movie and have ever since I saw it in college.
positive · AI labelView 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.
neutral · AI labelView post →Bringing Out the Dead Casino After Hours The Irishman Taxi Driver Film people please don't get mad at my obviously idiosyncratic tastes.
positive · AI labelView 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
neutral · AI labelView 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
neutral · AI labelView 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.
positive · AI labelView 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...
neutral · AI labelView 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.
neutral · AI labelView 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).
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw a test screening of BRINGING OUT THE DEAD that deployed a killer "Time Has Come Today" needle drop. I think the scene was either cut or truncated. In any event, it was top shelf Scorsese. thereveal.substack.com/p/whats-your...
positive · AI labelView post →#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge 13: movie character who is a paramedic Bringing Out the Dead - 1999
neutral · AI labelView post →Bringing Out the Dead is a Christmas movie
neutral · AI labelView 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.
positive · AI labelView 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)
neutral · AI labelView 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...
neutral · AI labelView 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.
neutral · AI labelView 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?...
neutral · AI labelView 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.
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