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	Bringing Out the Dead
		Bringing Out the Dead is for people who want to see a movie believably and honestly explore and handle its material.
		Dead is the worst of the four (although it's hard to hold anything to the standard of Raging Bull), but I don't think that's why it gets the least respect.
		Bringing Out the Dead is about showing what he's going through, and it goes about this in every way from voice over narration that gives us perspective to hallucinations that show the haunting and maddening aspects of watching so many people die on your watch.
	www.metalasylum.com /ragingbull/movies/dead.html (3332 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| "Bringing Out the Dead" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Yet "Bringing Out the Dead" has the feel of a hollow exercise: Nothing about it is particularly unexpected or surprising, despite the fact that it lunges at you every chance it gets.
		"Bringing Out the Dead" is all whirring, blurred energy, especially as shot by Robert Richardson.
		When Cage and any one of his various partners try to bring a new patient to the emergency room, they're greeted only by frightening chaos and the bone-deep weariness of the doctors, who practically kill themselves trying to treat the constant stream of ill and injured people.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/1999/10/22/dead (1269 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: BRINGING OUT THE DEAD review
		When this happens, it baffles me, and in the case of BRINGING OUT THE DEAD, it is even more of a head scratcher as Martin Scorcese is no ordinary director.
		Reteaming once again with TAXI DRIVER screenwriter Paul Schrader, I think BRINGING OUT THE DEAD belongs up there with those seminal classics, and is a haunting, emotional and taut character study of a man on the edge.
		BRINGING OUT THE DEAD has been unjustly overlooked, and any serious fan of Scorcese should see it.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_2/bringingoutthedead.htm (790 words)

	BRINGING OUT THE DEAD
		As quirky, intense, and in even insightful as Bringing Out the Dead may be, we both agree that this movie falls short of paying off on the level of thematic and emotional satisfaction.
		Anna-Maria on the other hand marveled at the mastery of cinematic and acting technique that presented aspects of the human condition she had hardly imagined both in terms of the ambulance work in the deepest and darkest New York city night, and a kind of despair and blood lust she never experienced.
		Nonetheless, no matter how surreal the surroundings and situations in Bringing Out the Dead, their power is in their representation of a dark, ambiguous world, as hard to pin down as though we were Alice in a wonderland of urban hell.
	www.cinemasense.com /Reviews/bringing_out_the_dead.htm (1135 words)

	The DVD Journal: Bringing Out the Dead
		Bringing Out the Dead, released by Touchstone on the 24th of October, 1999, cost $32 million dollars, and in its initial run grossed a disastrous $16 million dollars, according to the IMDB.
		There is a simple beauty in the movements with which he kneels down to "bring out the dead" from their ghostly haunts below the street during one dream sequence.
		This is one of the richest stories that Scorsese has brought to the screen in years, abundant in incident and subtle in nuance, and the cast is, at least to one viewer, brilliant at bringing out the passion.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/b/bringingoutthedead.shtml (1047 words)

	Bringing Out the Dead: Cinephiles Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bringing Out the Dead roams the city streets at night, often from inside the vehicle and from the point of view of its narrator, Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage).
		Bringing Out the Dead focuses on the hostile "underworld" that Frank as a paramedic inhabits, but mostly on the mental and emotional anguish that inhabits him.
		The incessant 911 calls, mostly from people who are victims of their own inadequacies within their decrepit worlds, and the extreme measures he mechanically performs to save them, haunt and possess Frank.
	www.cinephiles.net /Bringing_Out_the_Dead/Film-Synopsis.html (324 words)

	Amazon.com: Bringing out the Dead: Books: Joe Connelly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		But he is unable to blot out the memory of Rose, a young asthmatic who died in his care and now appears to him on various street corners.
		Connelly brings an air of authenticity to his rendering of this marginal world, and his compassion for its miserable and impoverished denizens is almost palpable.
		BOTD is as much a confession of Frank Pierce, the main character, as it is of every EMT and Paramedic in the world.
	www.amazon.com /Bringing-out-Dead-Joe-Connelly/dp/0375400400 (2490 words)

	Bringing Out the Dead - Cincinnati.Com
		Bringing Out the Dead is a stunning movie, a kinetic rampage against the sorrow that kills souls.
		Despite the strands that connect it to Taxi Driver — religious imagery, for instance — Bringing Out the Dead is a more tempered film, a vision that admits hope and humor alongside its dangerous vision of the city as a well of madness.
		Bringing Out the Dead is not a movie that lends itself to overly literal interpretation.
	www.cincinnati.com /freetime/movies/mcgurk/bringingoutdead.html (489 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Bringing Out The Dead
		Bringing Out the Dead simply put, is a stunning film on many different levels.
		Bringing Out the Dead, while not a film that burned up the box office, is after all a Scorsese film and as such deserves more attention.
		Bringing Out the Dead is released to work the night shift over and over again.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/bringingdead.php (2098 words)

	Bringing Out The Dead
		Bringing Out the Dead lacks a sense of proportion-a ratio of the kind that would have sharpened the edges of its situation and lent the crisis of the leading character conviction.
		The only fusion is that of Bringing Out the Dead with every other film playing or due to play at the cinema complex where I saw it.
		Out of these trailers Bringing Out the Dead seemed to sort of grow; the indifferentiation was complete.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/00/7/bringing.html (2790 words)

	The Flat Hat - Reviews
		Despite this status, Scorsese remains an influential and amazingly skilled director, and he proves this yet again with his latest production, "Bringing Out the Dead." Filmed with combative close-ups, dizzying camera angles and hyperkinetic cutting, "Dead" is aggressive from the start everything we have come to expect from Scorsese.
		"Dead" echoes "Driver" at many points, displaying a city and characters that are grim and confused.
		"Dead" is a sweeping story of life and death, angels and ghosts, urban tragedy and redemption.
	flathat.wm.edu /October291999/reviewsstory7.html (837 words)

	Movie (Metro Times Detroit) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		But while Bringing Out the Dead is based on a 1998 novel by former NYC paramedic Joe Connelly, it isn’t meant as an exposé of the profession.
		In its tone, Bringing Out the Dead is a cross between the Schrader-Scorsese nocturnal nightmare, Taxi Driver, and Schrader’s own meditative Light Sleeper.
		In Bringing Out the Dead, he repeatedly evokes Van Morrison’s soul-wrenching lament to a dying lover, "T.B. Sheets." Morrison’s aching confession plays like a haunting refrain, underscoring Scorsese’s assertion that the face of death can still manage to possess a transcendent beauty.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/review.asp?id=51429 (405 words)

	CNN - 'Bringing Out the Dead' with Scorsese and Cage- October 21, 1999
		LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- The premiere of "Bringing Out the Dead" happened to coincide with the Atlanta Braves-New York Mets National League Championship playoffs.
		Some have already drawn parallels between the setting and subject matter for both "Bringing Out the Dead" and "Taxi Driver." The new film stars Nicolas Cage as a burned-out New York City paramedic hanging by the end of his mental rope.
		The film, in which Cage's paramedic team is rounded out by Ving Rhames, John Goodman and Tom Sizemore, brings to mind films like "MAS*H" or "The Hospital" in juxtaposing the raw edges of healing and helping.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9910/21/bringingoutthedead/index.html (689 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Bringing Out the Dead" review (1999)
		Ambulance-chasing 'Bringing Out the Dead,' a vivid, exhausting Scrosese neo-classic
		Every time a call comes over the radio, "Bringing Out the Dead" upshifts into a dynamic, impulsive, adrenaline rush, brilliantly illustrated by lighting, editing and accelerated photography that takes its cue from the strobing red and blue flashers atop the ambulance.
		Dense with overt and subtle detail that bring the world of the film so realistically to three-dimensional life, "Bringing Out the Dead" is so potent it uses as asides the kind of developments (a deadly new drug on the street, for instance) that are central to typical, callow movies.
	www.splicedonline.com /99reviews/bringing.html (816 words)

	Bringing Out the Dead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bringing Out the Dead is a 1999 motion picture.
		It is a dark drama about Paramedics shot mostly at night in New York City, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Nicolas Cage, Ving Rhames, John Goodman, and Tom Sizemore as paramedics, as well as Patricia Arquette.
		Pierce is burned out and somewhat unstable from too many years on the job.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bringing_Out_the_Dead (387 words)

	Bringing Out the Dead
		Like someone who’s lost their God, he’s lost the reasons for doing what he does. He finds the disconnect between what he was trained to do and what he actually does unbearable. He feels useless and lost picking up homeless drunks, drug addicts and gang war victims like so much garbage.
		Before long the whole city is turning into one neon nightmare rife with hallucinatory images: a truck exploding out of nowhere and disappearing. An old man crawling into the path of his ambulance. A white stallion wandering through a homeless encampment.
		Bringing the mercy of death is an act of compassion, too.
	www.posthoc.com /bringoutdead.htm (661 words)

	Movie Review -- Bringing Out the Dead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He's burning out, no longer able to disassociate himself from the most terrible part of the job-loosing a patient.
		One patient, Noel (Marc Anthony), runs in and out of the film begging for a glass of water and/or to be killed.
		I can understand the reason-being a paramedic is not a matter of progression, but of going out, doing the same things every night, facing the same death, the same filth, the same etc. But I think most of the audience can get the idea pretty quickly.
	www.theshrubbery.com /1199/movie2.html (1031 words)

	MetroActive Movies \| 'Bringing Out the Dead'
		Bringing Out the Dead is an episodic, heavily narrated film, in which the same characters turn up again and again, except for the ones who matter.
		Rhames' normally bald head is covered with a dapper wave of hair, and he has the sleek mustache and bull-moose baritone of a soul singer.
		Bringing Out the Dead (R; 122 min.), directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader, based on the novel by Joe Connelly and starring Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette and Ving Rhames, plays at selected theaters.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/10.27.99/bringingoutdead-9943.html (918 words)

	AboutFilm.Com - Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
		Frank is burned out to the point that he is a walking cinder.
		Where Taxi Driver triumphs and Bringing Out the Dead fails, however, is that the former builds in intensity, slowly drawing you in and holding you rapt.
		Bringing Out the Dead fails to draw us as deeply into Frank Pierce's world as we went into Travis Bickle's.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/b/bringingoutdead.htm (916 words)

	Bringing Out the Dead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ving Rhames stands out as Marcus, a holy roller who likes spreading his love around and who tries, good-naturedly, to charm a dispatcher into going out with him again by playing hard to get over the radio.
		And if you're going to have a movie as dark as Bringing Out the Dead, you'd better have characters who are strongly enough drawn that you want to know what happens.
		I've been told the novel on which Bringing Out the Dead is based, by former paramedic Joe Connelly, is stronger than the script Connelly wrote with Paul Schrader (1997's Affliction, and Raging Bull, his 1980 film with Scorsese).
	www.rambles.net /bringing_outdead.html (519 words)

	Bringing Out the Dead (1999): Reviews
		To look at Bringing Out the Dead --to look, indeed, at almost any Scorsese film--is to be reminded that film can touch us urgently and deeply.
		Filled with so much heartbreaking beauty, Bringing Out the Dead might be best described as an artist's sketchbook, a series of tableaux and ideas that provide a telling glimpse of a director whose work is always evolving.
		While heartfelt and beautifully crafted, Bringing Out the Dead is too freighted with its protagonist's failed savior complex and is surprisingly lacking in primal impact.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/bringingoutthedead (962 words)

	Bringing Out the Dead (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		from Iowa City, IA In Bringing Out the Dead, Nicolas Cage plays Frank, a graveyard shift EMT technician in New York City in the early 1990s.
		Overall, Bringing Out the Dead appears to be heavily influenced by film noir.
		Frank, the protagonist, is at the end of his rope in a rather solitary and stressful job and he often finds escape from the ghosts of his failures through alcohol.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0163988 (768 words)

	BRINGING OUT THE DEAD - DVD
		Despite its rock 'n' roll posturing, Bringing Out the Dead has a core gentility that is beguiling and very Buddhist--it now looks as though Scorsese's career will be divided into pre- and post-Kundun, the storm and the calm.
		Both films, Bringing Out the Dead and Kundun, are about men who've been entrusted with the lives of many and how they cope with that responsibility.
		Adapting Bringing out the Dead from Joe Connelly's debut novel, Scorsese's longtime henchman Paul Schrader (screenwriter of Taxi Driver) said during a symposium at last year's Toronto International Film Festival that the casting of Cage won the director not only a fearless leading man, but also fewer interferences from the studio.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/bringingoutthedead.htm (964 words)

	Bringing Out the Dead. A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review.
		His character is one of a man who started out wanting, needing to help his fellow man, to do the good work, but day after day year after year it was the same thing, doing your best never making a difference.
		While intimations of redemption flicker in the background, it is a pallid world - even in the rare segments of daylight - where the line between the still living and the dead seems faint: the dead are antagonistic of the living and the living often long to die.
		Even Frank Pierce's repeated and bizarrely futile attempts to be fired from his paramedic job and his abortive attempt to quit point to a hopeless and joyless trap lit only by his vague memories of the unspeakable ecstasy of occasionally saving a life.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /bringing_out_the_dead.htm (1427 words)

	Bringing Out the Dead
		The Evening Standard, London, 1/06/2000--At first sight, Martin Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead, about the New York emergency medical services in the early Nineties, looks like a return to the mean streets of Taxi Driver some 15 years ago.
		The Orion, California State University, Chico, CA, 11/03/1999--Cage brings life to role in 'Bringing Out the Dead'.
		The Signal, College of New Jersey, Trenton, NJ, 10/26/1999--Scorsese and Cage convincingly 'bring out the dead'.
	members.cox.net /scorseseinfo/reviews/BOTD.html (976 words)

	Bringing out the Dead DVD Review - www.impulsegamer.com -
		It's darkly comedic and the visual style of the movie is sensational as is to generally be expected from Martin Scorsese.
		Taking place primarily at night, Bringing out the Dead shows you how drastically familiar streets change at night and how the other half of the world live and behave under the cover of shadows.
		The movie uses subtle hues for the most part, although lights from signs do stand out as their luminescence lights up the night sky.
	www.impulsegamer.com /igversion01/dvd/dvdbringingoutthedead.htm (365 words)

	bringing out the dead
		Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage), the frazzled city paramedic at the center of Bringing Out the Dead, appears before us as a kind of bleary-eyed Charon -- a ferryman transporting lost souls from one end of Hell (dirty streets, crackhouses) to another (a hectic hospital with no beds to spare).
		Similarly, Bringing Out the Dead is really more about the marriage of image and sound than about the mundane and scattered plot mechanics that Frank encounters.
		Paradoxically, Bringing Out the Dead would be more pedestrian if it weren't directed by Scorsese, who at 56 shows no signs of diminishing energy; yet, because it is Scorsese, the pedestrian parts jump out and slap us.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/oc/bringdead.html (1128 words)

	Amazon.com: Bringing Out the Dead: DVD: Marc Anthony,Patricia Arquette,Marylouise Burke,Nicolas Cage,Cliff Curtis,John ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He's burned out, exhausted, seeing ghosts, especially a young woman he failed to save six months' before, and no longer able to save people: he brings in the dead.
		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.
		Bringing Out the Dead is one of Martin Scorsese's better movies.
	www.amazon.com /Bringing-Out-Dead-Marc-Anthony/dp/079216587X (2319 words)

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