Cult Classics | Science on Screen

Bringing Out The Dead (35MM)

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A “National Evening of Science on Screen” 35mm screening! Featuring a pre-film Science on Screen presentation!

 

Martin Scorsese reunites with screenwriter Paul Schrader to direct one of his most compelling and unforgettable movies, Bringing Out The Dead. After a disheartening and haunting career wears him down, New York City paramedic Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage) begins to collapse under the strain of saving lives and witnessing deaths. Through the course of a few nights, three co-workers (John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore) accompany Pierce as he grasps for sanity and pushes to be fired. Before Pierce falls off the edge, he still has a hope when he forms a friendship with a victim's daughter (Patricia Arquette).

 

 

In partnership with Science on Screen®: an initiative of the COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE, with major support from the ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION.


1999, 121 Minutes, USA, Directed by Martin Scorsese, Rated R

“An ecstatic sensory experience.” 
– Wesley Morris, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER

 

“If you enjoy redemptions drenched in rhapsodic agony, religious mysticism and the bloody ick of emergency room chaos, that journey will be bliss for you.”
– Desson Thomson, WASHINGTON POST

 

“Frighteningly original – simultaneously world-weary and adolescent with an aura of perpetual anxiety”
– Lisa Alspector, CHICAGO READER

 

“An intense, volatile film full of sorrow and wild, mordant humor.”
– Janet Maslin, NEW YORK TIMES