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Martin Scorsese has programmed Living, Breathing New York, which continues with a 35mm print of Bringing Out the Dead on Friday and Saturday; The Quiet Man plays on 35mm Saturday and Sunday; David Lynch shorts and Lost Highway screen.

Anthology Film Archives

A new restoration of João César Monteiro’s Snow White plays on Saturday; a Rosemary Hochschild retrospective screens.

Film Forum

A René Clair retrospective has begun; Luis Buñuel’s Él continues screening in a 4K restoration alongside Play It As It Lays and Godard’s A Woman Is a Woman; Modern Times screens on Sunday.

IFC Center

Hideaki Anno’s Love & Pop plays in a new restoration; Stop Making Sense, Mulholland Dr., Lost Highway, Best in Show, Palindromes, and Pink Flamingos show late.

Bam

Heiny Srour’s Leila and the Wolves continues.

Nitehawk Cinema

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The power of a great movie is its ability to capture elements of humanity and imagination in a short period of time, connecting with the audience by crafting stories that are able to hold audiences' attention from beginning to end. One of the best ways that a film can capture an audience is with a twist, something that completely reshapes the narrative of the movie and leaves the audience to question everything that they saw before.

Whether a twist happens halfway through a movie, shifting the narrative and structure of the rest of the film, or at the end of the movie, recontextualizing everything that came before and drawing audiences to immediately want to watch the film again, these films are some of the ones that stick in the mind of audiences. Some of the best movies of all time are the ones that offer a shocking twist for the audience.

New York icon Martin Scorsese is revealing his go-to films set in the Big Apple.

The auteur curated the screening series “Living, Breathing New York” for the Roxy Cinema, which features screenings of four of his favorite NYC movies out of a full list of Scorsese’s 32 favorite New York movies he’s created and which IndieWire is proud to share below.

“Living, Breathing New York” is curated by Scorsese in celebration of the new release of Olmo Schnabel’s NYC-set thriller, “Pet Shop Days,” which Scorsese executive produced. The film premieres March 15 at the Roxy Cinema in New York, and stars Dario Yazbek Bernal and Jack Irv as two lovers whose whirlwind romance sends them down a rabbit hole of drugs and depravity in Manhattan’s underworld. Willem Dafoe (who starred in Olmo Schnabel‘s father Julian Schnabel’s Vincent Van Gogh biopic “At Eternity’s Gate”), Emmanuelle Seigner, Peter Sarsgaard,...

Is there any contemporary actor more iconic than Nicolas Cage? Instantly identifiable and beloved by both mainstream audiences and cult aficionados, it’s hard to believe that there was a time when Nicolas Cage wasn’t considered a bankable leading man. While movies like Raising Arizona and Moonstruck established him as a quirky lead, in 1990, he made an action movie called Fire Birds, which was like Top Gun with helicopters and whiffed at the box office. He had a solid hit as a romantic lead in Honeymoon in Vegas. However, in 1995, the same year he delivered an Academy Award-winning performance in Leaving Las Vegas, he was still considered so minor of a star that David Caruso took top billing over him in their remake of Kiss of Death – which – by the way – was another flop. However, that all changed when uber producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer decided Cage had potential as an action hero,...

For such a long career, Martin Scorsese has an incredibly high batting average when it comes to the quality of his films. Across 26 narrative features and 16 documentaries, the maestro's work is rarely met with anything less than effusive praise from critics and audiences alike. Looking at his career through the imperfect lens of Rotten Tomatoes scores, his films rarely have anything below a consensus of 75%, and even movies which were divisive at the time, like 1999's Bringing Out the Dead, have been looked upon more favorably in the years since their release.

But still, even the greatest artists are bound to hit snags from time to time, and one of Scorsese's most divisive films recently celebrated its 15th anniversary: 2010's Shutter Island, a psychological thriller starring one of the director's most treasured collaborators, Leonardo DiCaprio. With a Tomatometer score of 69%, it's the third-lowest-scoring film he's directed, ahead of his...

In the age of streaming, there’s a widespread belief that every movie is available, all the time, everywhere. Don’t fall for it! Some of the greatest movies ever made are nowhere to be found due to everything from music rights snafus to corporate negligence. In this column, we take a look at films currently out-of-print on physical media and unavailable on any streaming platform in an effort to draw attention to them and say to their rights holders, “Release This!”

At the end of 1999, Entertainment Weekly ran a cover story titled “The Year That Changed Movies,” celebrating the abundance of highwire masterpieces that the American film industry seemed to be cranking out on a weekly basis that year. “Eyes Wide Shut,” “Magnolia,” “The Limey,” “Fight Club,” “Being John Malkovich,” “Election,” “Boys Don’t Cry”, “The Straight Story,” “The Sixth Sense,” “Bringing Out the Dead,” “The Matrix,” and “Three Kings” are just a random sampling,...

Patricia Arquette recently spoke about starring in the late David Lynch's polarizing and surreal 1997 film, Lost Highway, as both Renee Madison and Alice Wakefield. In the interview with IndieWire, she reflected on the dual roles, filming with Lynch (who very recently passed away), and appearing nude.

"That was the hardest movie for me to ever make because I’ve always been very shy," Arquette said. "Especially sexually. I think I probably had a lot of trauma. For many years, I would even take baths in the dark, alone with just a candle."

In the past, she said filming the nude scenes were "terrifying," especially as the crew said "crude" things. She continued:

"For me, making Lost Highway was one of the bravest things I could have done. I was so sick of carrying this burden of terror, this fear. That was a very powerful movie for me to make.

A new addition has been revealed for the cast of the upcoming reboot of The Running Man. The new take on the Stephen King story comes from filmmaker Edgar Wright.

Per Deadline, David Zayas has just been added to the cast of The Running Man. He's just the latest of several names who've reportedly been added to the cast of the film, which will feature Glen Powell in the lead role. Other known cast members include Josh Brolin (Avengers: Endgame), Katy O'Brian (The Mandalorian), Daniel Ezra (All American), Lee Pace (The Hobbit), Michael Cera (Barbie), Emilia Jones (Coda), Jayme Lawson (The Batman), and William H. Macy (Shameless).

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Paul Schrader is bringing out the details on his dead movie “Xtreme City.”

Schrader was set to reunite with his “Taxi Driver” and “Bringing Out the Dead” collaborator Scorsese on now-infamous scrapped feature “Xtreme City.” Frequent Scorsese muse Leonardo DiCaprio was confirmed to star alongside Bollywood legend Shah Rukh Khan. The crime film, which was conceived during the 2011 Berlin Film Festival, was to be written by Schrader and Mushtaq Shiekh, with Scorsese as an executive producer.

During the “Pod Casty for Me” podcast (via The Film Stage), Schrader reflected on the film that never was.

“I wanted to do that, yeah. I wanted to do that with Shah Rukh Khan and Leo. In fact, we all met at Berlin. Scorsese was going to produce it. Shah Rukh was in Berlin; Leo was there; we all met about it,” Schrader said.

However, Khan’s international celebrity may have complicated things.

“Shah Rukh is the boss.

When we speak of the people who shaped cinema in the New Hollywood era of the 1970s, it's impossible to avoid the names Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese. The duo's first collaboration, 1976's Taxi Driver, for which Scorsese directed Schrader's screenplay, became a critical and box office hit, but also helped shape the gritty antihero cinema of the era. The duo collaborated three more times on some of their most critically acclaimed films 1980's Raging Bull, 1988's The Last Temptation of Christ, and finally, 1999's Bringing Out the Dead.

MovieWeb sat down to speak with Schrader about his upcoming film, Oh, Canada. With Bringing Out the Dead celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, we asked if Schrader and Scorsese had any plans to work together again. Despite the duo's past working relationship and the fact that each of them has struggled to do their take on a Frank Sinatra biopic,...

Nicolas Cage is one of America’s greatest movie stars, and certainly its most distinctive one. His singular genius will be the subject of a retrospective festival at Metrograph, the wonderful independent movie theater in New York City.

IndieWire reports that “Nicolas Uncaged” will present 35mm showings of 10 of Cage’s iconic films: “Adaptation,” “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,” “Con Air,” “Moonstruck,” “National Treasure,” “Pig,” “Red Rock West,” “Vampire’s Kiss,” “The Wicker Man,” and “Wild at Heart.”

“Heaped with praise and panegyrics as one of the finest screen actors of his generation, pilloried and parodied as an anything-for-a-paycheck hambone with a weakness for weird wigs and prostheses, Nicolas Cage is a one-man sideshow, a mixture of Marlon Brando, Robert Mitchum, Lon Chaney, and a stick of TNT who takes back ‘serious thespian’ prestige whenever he wants to, dives into grindhouse material and Academy Award hopefuls with the same mad enthusiasm,...

The great Martin Scorsese is well-known for being one of the pioneers of contemporary cinema. A thriving young visionary in the 70s New Hollywood Era, Scorsese made a name for himself on the back of projects such as Taxi Driver, Mean Streets and Raging Bull, to name a few. Each film he made better honed his unique voice, vision and style. Fans all over the world know a Scorsese movie when they see one.

What's maybe more impressive than his early contributions is his ability to continue to make films well into his 80s. For almost fifty years, Martin Scorsese has continued to tell stories in the frame, and it seems that every new film he makes has something important to say about humanity. One of the greatest crime directors ever, Scorsese's most iconic films are those that exist in the gangster genre. However, he has been making movies in multiple genres for decades,...

In Michael Samoski's 2021 drama "Pig," Nicolas Cage plays a quiet, bearded recluse named Rob Feld who lives in a remote woodland cabin with his unnamed pet pig. The pig is a skilled truffle forager, and Rob makes a living selling truffles to a restaurant supplier (Alex Wolff) who occasionally drives out to his cabin. Rob clearly has a dark past, but has seemingly found peace in the woods. One night, however, Rob is attacked, and his pig is stolen. Rob has to trek into nearby Portland to retrieve his animal friend, and, we learn, confront his past.

As the film progresses, we discover that Rob had unusual connections in the world of Portland's high-end restaurateurs, and that he participated in eatery-related underground fighting rings (!). He's also still in mourning over the death of his wife years before, which was the primary impetus driving Rob to become a recluse. More than anything,...

Martin Scorseses Bringing Out the Dead didnt get the attention it deserved when it was released in 1999, but finally has a second chance. On its 25th anniversary, the underrated feature will get a 4K release paired with exclusive behind-the-scenes content. Based on the best-selling novel by Joe Connelly, the film is semi-autobiographical about the authors time as a New York City paramedic. Directed with the same enthusiasm as Scorseses landmark film Taxi Driver, Bringing Out the Dead tackles similar themes.

Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader have a lengthy history together, beginning when the former directed the latter's screenplay, Taxi Driver. They teamed up again for Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, and Bringing Out the Dead, and their paths crossed on yet another occasion when Scorsese was gearing up to adapt Shusako Endo's 1966 novel, Silence, for the big screen. The 2016 drama centers on 17th-century Jesuit priests Sebastio Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield) and Francisco Garupe (Adam Driver) who, upon discovering their mentor (Liam Neeson) has committed apostasy, travel to Japan to locate him during a time when Christianity was forbidden in the country. A passion project that was years in the making for Scorsese, Silence explores weighty themes regarding faith, conviction, and personal sacrifice and, as it turns out, strongly resonated with Schrader, who has admitted he once made an attempt to direct the film himself.

Martin Scorsese’s Bringing Out the Dead is a mélange of moods and genres ranging from Gothic horror to Bergmanesque spiritual rumination, and it shares the same maximalist approach that the filmmaker and cinematographer Robert Richardson brought to bear on 1995’s Casino. An account of sleep-deprived and burned-out paramedic Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage) and his run of harrowing night shifts in Hell’s Kitchen, the film wastes little time in depicting Frank’s world as one of overdosing junkies and shooting victims, a place where hospitals suggest disaster zones, pulsing with the din of heart monitors and ever-raving patients.

So exhausting is this world that we meet Frank looking the way that Scorsese protagonists don’t usually look until the third act. That is, Cage enters the frame with sunken, bloodshot eyes and sallow skin. From the outset, it appears that the only thing preventing Frank from being hooked up...

Patricia Arquette is set for a lead role in the limited series about the Murdaugh family at Hulu, Variety has learned.

The show was first reported to be in development at Hulu in November 2022. With Arquette’s casting, it has now officially been ordered to series.

Per the official description, the series “is based on Maggie (Arquette) and Alex Murdaugh’s stranger-than-fiction family drama, a riveting account drawing from countless hours of reporting by Mandy Matney – journalist and creator of the popular ‘Murdaugh Murders Podcast’ – as well as exclusive, insider knowledge from years spent following the case.”

The Murdaugh family were powerful players in the Lowcountry region of South Caroline, wielding great legal and political influence. But for the better part of a decade, the family has been accused of involvement in a variety of crimes, ranging from fraud to murder. In addition to the “Murdaugh Murders” podcast, they have...

The Sixth Sense broke all records when it premiered in 1999. The classic American psychological thriller movie was written as well as directed by the legendary M. Night Shyamalan. Marking the third feature film from the director, it also boasted a stunning ensemble featuring the likes of Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, and Toni Collette.

Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense || Credits: Buena Vista Pictures

Not only this, but it also earned Shyamalan his first Oscar nomination for Best Director. The movie still remains a classic, and being a part of such a film would be a dream come true for anyone.

But Toni Collette was quite disappointed when she landed the role, as she was also expecting a callback from another iconic director.

Toni Collette Wanted to Work With Martin Scorsese Rather Than M. Night Shyamalan

The Sixth Sense completely changed the game for the horror genre in the...

It's hard to imagine a Martin Scorsese film could ever be considered "underrated," let alone "forgotten." Even including the films of his that are almost considered disappointments, they're still lightning rods of conversation and sometimes controversy that people actively care about. That makes it more confusing that a film like Bringing Out the Dead, his one-time collaboration with Nicolas Cage, would feel all but wiped away from retrospectives on the legacies of either of these men. Released in 1999, the movie was a massive commercial bomb that got decent enough respect from critics, but got swept under the rug rather quickly. This is a shame, as it's one of his most deeply spiritual films that sends you on a journey through the hellscape of Manhattan to reach transcendence.

Cage has starred in over 100 films, but some like Bringing Out the Dead are overlooked gems. Bringing Out the Dead is a character study of a depressed paramedic, praised by critics. Despite being a box office flop, Cage defends the film as misinterpreted and worth revisiting.

In Nicolas Cage's vast acting career, several great films have been overlooked and underrated. Cage's career has been ongoing for over four decades, since his first role as a side character in the 1982 film Fast Times in Ridgemont High. During this career, Cage appeared or starred in over 100 movies across many genres and franchises. While many of these films are well-liked, several have unfortunately flown under the radar.

With Cage's retirement plan still up in the air, he continues to add to his extensive filmography and star in films into his 60s. Over the years, Cage has also been able to collaborate with many highly-regarded directors.

Nicolas Cage is a versatile actor who excels in both high-concept blockbusters and grounded arthouse projects. Cage's performance in Bringing Out The Dead showcases his depth and range as an actor. The film is a unique and profound collaboration between Cage and Scorsese and one that deserves far more attention from general audiences.

There are few performers more engaging than Nicolas Cage. A fiercely idiosyncratic talent, this mega star throws his all into every project regardless of quality. Boasting a filmography full of bizarre and varied roles, Cage has earned himself a reputation as cinemas jack-all-trades. He can be a Thespian or an action hero, delivering performances in service of both popcorn thrills and award-worthy drama. Deeply inspired by German Expressionism, Cage rejects naturalism in favor of grandiose showmanship. His characters are manic and unpredictable, but seldom less than mesmerizing. Cages bold acting choices have earned him a loyal cult following,...

There’s a muzzle pressed to the back of your head. You’re suddenly forced to name Martin Scorsese’s single most underrated movie in five seconds or less. What is the first thing that comes to mind? Kundun? The Age of Innocence? Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore? Maybe The King of Comedy or After Hours? It’s a tough call, especially since the greatest living American filmmaker is so synonymous with New York crime movies like Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, The Departed, you name it. Speaking of such flicks, one explosive charge in Scorsese’s canon always goes unnoticed, despite sharing an accoladed pedigree with Taxi Driver. That’s right, Scorsese reunited with screenwriter Paul Schrader on the criminally unheralded 1999 bleak, pitch-black crime-comedy Bringing out the Dead. The film marks the only time Scorsese worked with Nicolas Cage, Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew,...

The Responder is one of those rare cop dramas that cut to the quick, leaving you in a state of reflective, not entirely unpleasant, unease. It's entirely worth your time. No, it's not a novel concept -- a first responder on the emergency line drags himself from crisis to crisis (of varying scale), nor is it a radical reinvention of the tried and true. It's just a solid slab of TV entertainment that knows its material inside and out.

The hard-pressed police officer pushed to the brink of what could reasonably be expected of anyone -- let alone the average citizen who rarely, if ever, gets into adrenalized circumstances on a similar par -- is a character type that we've grown to love as a movie and TV-viewing audience. From the hapless careerists who come against the strictures of organized enforcement agencies to the trigger-happy officers who drag themselves and colleagues into terrible scenarios,...

Nicolas Cage is a performer who routinely defies logic and expectations. A true national treasure of cinema (no pun intended), Cage has never been afraid to cross genre lines and take big swings with the characters he embodies. Such is the case in the new film Longlegs by Osgood Perkins. In the movie, Cage plays the titular Longlegs, an elusive and terrifying serial killer. While previously able to stay off the FBI’s radar, everything changes when a young recruit named Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) gets assigned to the case.

Bloody Disgusting’s own Meagan Navarro wrote in her Longlegs review that Cage delivers his “most unsettling performance yet.” With a career as prolific and varied as Cage’s, that statement should not be taken lightly. Ahead of the film’s release in theaters everywhere on July 12th, let’s take a look at some of Cage’s other unsettling,...

This year we, as horror fans, are going to be gifted with a film from director Oz Perkins. That movie is Longlegs and stars Maika Monroe as well as the fascinating actor Nicolas Cage. As anyone may know, Cage has starred in many different types of films, especially horror, and here, he stars as a serial killer who gives off some very Ghepetto-esque vibes. Regardless, we here at JoBlo will be there opening day for the film. As stated a minute ago, we recognize that Cage is vast in various types of genres…but this wasn’t his first dip in the pool of horror. Today on Horror Revisited, we are exploring Martin Scorsese’s underrated film Bringing Out the Dead (watch it Here), which stars Nicolas Cage in one of his most honest, endearing and albeit best roles. So, turn on the sirens, strap in and let’s tour...

Nicolas Cage recommends the 2021 drama Pig as his top film throughout his career. Cage praises Pig for its quiet, gentle nature and emotional resonance. Pig serves as a perfect starting point for Cage's more serious roles, showcasing his recent career trajectory.

Nicolas Cage has revealed his top recommendation from his movie career, stating which of the over 100 movies he's starred in has been his favorite. Cage has had a versatile film career, starring in everything from comedies like Willy's Wonderland and Adaptation, to more serious films like Bringing Out the Dead and Mandy. His newest movie is the upcoming horror film Longlegs, which will see him portray a terrifying serial killer. However, he's starred in so many movies throughout his career that it can be difficult to decide where to start watching from.

Luckily, speaking with The New Yorker, Cage said his top recommendation from across his entire film career is the 2021 drama Pig.

Prolific actor Nicolas Cage and celebrated director Martin Scorsese crossed paths in 1999 with the release of the feature film Bringing Out the Dead. After 25 years, the movie is back in the spotlight with its upcoming release on 4K Ultra HD.

From Paramount Home Media Distribution, Bringing Out the Dead is getting a Collector's Edition 4K Blu-ray release on Sept. 17, 2024. While it was the first time Scorsese worked with Cage, it was the fourth collaboration with acclaimed writer Paul Schrader; the two previously made Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Last Temptation of Christ. Along with Cage in the lead role, Bringing Out the Dead also stars Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, and Tom Sizemore.

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While “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull” basically put Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader on the map as massive cinematic forces and “The Last Temptation of Christ” continues to have a strong cult following, as well as an early Criterion Collection release (Spine #70 to be exact), their final collaboration, 1999’s “Bringing Out the Dead,” starring Nicolas Cage and Patricia Arquette, still has yet to receive the praise and recognition of their previous works.

Paramount, the studio behind the film, seems to want to change that this upcoming September, as they plan on giving the psychological drama a 4K Uhd Blu-Ray release to coincide with its 25th anniversary. In reappraisal of this unfairly maligned capper to a multi-decade partnership, IndieWire lists our reasons for why “Bringing Out the Dead” is worth bringing out of the shadows.

‘Bringing Out The Dead,’ Martin Scorsese©Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection / Everett Collection A Spiritual Sequel to...

Bringing Out the Dead is the only collaboration between Italian-American screen legends Martin Scorsese and Nicolas Cage, but for years, the only way to get it on disc was via standard-definition DVD. Thanks to Paramount Home Entertainment, that's about to change. The 1999 film is being released on 4K Blu-ray for its 25th anniversary; the set will be available on September 17, 2024.

Martin Scorsese’s one of those rare directors who’ve made so many masterpieces that all too many of his films wind up being underrated just because maybe they don’t quite set the world on fire when they first come out. One such film is Bringing Out the Dead, starring Nicolas Cage as a New York City paramedic on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Hyped as a kind of companion piece to Taxi Driver, with it being written by that film’s Paul Schrader, it was rather coolly received in ’99. Why? Well, let’s not forget that year is one of the strongest in recent memory, and it got a bit overshadowed by movies like Fight Club, Three Kings, Magnolia, The Matrix, Being John Malkovich and a whole bunch of others as far as the cultural zeitgeist went.

However, looking back at the movie twenty-five years later, it...

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between.

Today we talk about one of the great ones: Martin Scorsese. Who’s better than Marty? Myself, Conor O’Donnell, and guest Jake Kring-Schreifels. Our B-Sides today include Italianamerican, Kundun, Bringing Out the Dead, and Silence.

We talk about a lot in this one. How to pronounce Scorsese! How to pronounce Coppola! Catholicism! Buddhism! Making films about religions in your life! This is an episode with lofty ambitions, not unlike most Scorsese pictures!

In examining Italianamerican we muse on Marty as documentarian, including the mention of an incredibly-underrated Scorsese documentary that’s hard to find: Public Speaking starring Fran Lebowitz. We reflect on the guardedness of memory by older generations. We also recount the Muddy Waters – László Kovács...

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Released in October 1999, Martin Scorsese's vastly underrated crime-thriller Bringing Out the Dead also ranks as one of Nicolas Cage's most overlooked movies. While marking the only collaboration between Scorsese and Cage thus far, Bringing Out the Dead reunites the all-world filmmaker with acclaimed screenwriter Paul Schrader 23 years after the two made Taxi Driver. Cut from similar cloth, Bringing Out the Dead follows the nightly duties of Frank Pierce (Cage), an exhausted paramedic haunted by the hellish violence witnessed in New York's Hell's Kitchen.

With Bringing Out the Dead poised to celebrate its 25th anniversary in October 2024, it's only right to reflect on the movie's merits, how it was overlooked at the time of its release,...

Blackout.I had saved my question about Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) until the last possible minute. Larry Fessenden, a disarmingly amiable man with an edge to his self-deprecating humor I recognized only too well, has a new werewolf movie out. If you know Larry’s movies—No Telling (1991), Habit (1995), Wendigo (2001), The Last Winter (2006), Beneath (2013), Depraved (2019), and now Blackout (2023)—you know it’s never just a matter of a monster. As we dug into its story of a lycanthropic curse doubling as a metaphor for an artist’s alcoholism and a town’s despair at a recent solar eclipse, I could see Larry the filmmaker turn into Larry the eager, devoted student and fan under the half-light of the black sun.Fessenden appears in the final minutes of Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), like a harbinger of the future’s unforgiving gaze, as an actor on the mid-century...

Paul Schrader absentmindedly builds installation art out of seven prescription bottles, two inhalers and an empty martini glass, as we sit in a restaurant for seniors in a Manhattan high-rise. Outside, lights twinkle on the Hudson. In 1975, Schrader went to bed with a pistol under his pillow while writing “Taxi Driver.” “Having the option to end things is the only way I could sleep,” Schrader says.

The specter of death is less dramatic but still remains a central focus for the 77-year-old Schrader. Not coincidentally, it’s the subject of his new film, “Oh, Canada,” starring Richard Gere, Jacob Elordi and Uma Thurman. Schrader’s breathing is now shallow and raspy. The voice he once used to argue with Marty Scorsese, direct Willem Dafoe and seduce Nastassja Kinski is now a broken-glass growl. He raises it the best he can to get another drink.

“Can we get some service, please.

Chicago – The 2024 Chicago Critics Film Festival Day Four – Monday, May 6th – presents a film about music dreams and a documentary on a music store. “Dandelion” is written and directed by Nicole Riegel and “Flipside” by Chris Wilcha are the centerpiece screenings. For the full schedule, info and tickets, click Ccff May 6th. For individual films, click titles below.

Dandelion

Dandelion

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Dandelion (KiKi Layne) is a struggling Cincinnati singer-songwriter in a downward spiral, takes a last-ditch-effort gig at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota where she meets Casey (Thomas Doherty), a guitarist who walked away from his dream long ago. As Dandelion joins Casey’s nomadic group of struggling musicians, the kindred spirits make music together and strike up a whirlwind romance.

Capsule Review: This is a passionate meditation on young love and the sensitive artist trying to interpret it. The love is as much about the...

Good One Image: Metrograph Pictures I’ll be the first to admit my bias towards the Chicago Critics Film Festival. I’m part of the organization that puts it together, it takes place at my favorite movie theater (Chicago’s organ-scored Music Box Theatre), and it enriches my local community of arthouse moviegoers.

In a Violent NatureImage: IFC Films

I’ll be the first to admit my bias towards the Chicago Critics Film Festival. I’m part of the organization that puts it together, it takes place at my favorite movie theater (Chicago’s organ-scored Music Box Theatre), and it enriches my local community of arthouse moviegoers.

French distributor Arp has picked up all French rights Paul Schrader’s new film Oh, Canada ahead of its world premiere in competition in Cannes next month.

The feature stars Richard Gere, Uma Thurman, Michael Imperioli and Jacob Elordi.

Oh, Canada reunites Schrader with Gere, more than 40 years after their first collaboration on American Gigolo. Adapted from the Russell Banks novel Foregone, Oh, Canada sees Gere playing Leonard Fife, a famed American documentary filmmaker who fled to Canada as a young man to avoid the Vietnam War draft. Dying from cancer, he agrees to give a final interview where he promises to reveals his long-held secrets, speaking in front of his wife (Thurman), a devoted former student (Imperioli), and the film crew.

David Gonzales is the lead producer on Oh, Canada alongside Tiffany Boyle, Luisa Law, Scott Lastaiti and Meghan Hanlon. Arclight Films is handling international sales and WME Independent...

If Criterion24/7 hasn’t completely colonized your attention every time you open the Channel––this is to say: if you’re stronger than me––their May lineup may be of interest. First and foremost I’m happy to see a Michael Roemer triple-feature: his superlative Nothing But a Man, arriving in a Criterion Edition, and the recently rediscovered The Plot Against Harry and Vengeance is Mine, three distinct features that suggest a long-lost voice of American movies. Meanwhile, Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Antiwar Trilogy four by Sara Driver, and a wide collection from Ayoka Chenzira fill out the auteurist sets.

Series-wise, a highlight of 1999 goes beyond the well-established canon with films like Trick and Bye Bye Africa, while of course including Sofia Coppola, Michael Mann, Scorsese, and Claire Denis. Films starring Shirley Maclaine, a study of 1960s paranoia, and Columbia’s “golden era” (read: 1950-1961) are curated; meanwhile, The Breaking Ice,...

Martin Scorsese is regarded as one of the finest filmmakers of the New Hollywood era, with five of his movies being included in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. Scorsese’s movies are described as culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant, which, back in the 1970s and 1980s, had an Italian-American influence and an upbringing in New York.

Filmmakers’s trademarks include extensive use of slow motion and freeze frames, graphic depictions of extreme violence, and liberal use of profanity. Scorsese, with his years of experience, garnered attention after he commented about how he does not consider Marvel movies to be cinema. But a screenwriter who has closely worked with the filmmaker on various projects disagrees with him.

Robert De Niro in Raging Bull Paul Schrader disagrees with Martin Scorsese’s comments on Marvel movies

Screenwriter-filmmaker and film critic Paul Schrader, who is widely known for his contribution...

Plot: Asphalt City follows Ollie Cross, a young paramedic assigned to the NYC night shift with an uncompromising and seasoned partner Gene Rutkovsky. The dark nights reveal a city in crisis; Rutkovsky guides Cross, as each 911 call is often dangerous and uncertain, putting their lives on the line every day to help others. Cross soon discovers firsthand the chaos and awe of a job that careens from harrowing to heartfelt, testing his relationship with Rutkovsky and the ethical ambiguity that can be the difference between life and death.

Review: Stories about first responders, specifically EMTs, are often material depicted on small-screen procedurals and dramas like 9-1-1 and Chicago Med. Doctors tend to get all the glory on the big screen, except for Martin Scorsese’s haunting 1999 film Bringing Out the Dead. Where that film went down a horror-tinged rabbit hole reminiscent of Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, it managed to...

Oscar-winning actress Patricia Arquette chaired a career masterclass this afternoon at Series Mania in Lille, France, where she served as this year’s guest of honor.

Topics up for discussion during the session ranged from Arquette’s childhood growing up on a “hippie” commune with her parents in rural Virginia alongside her career as an actress, working with filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, Richard Linklater, and David Lynch.

“He gives you a lot of freedom,” Arquette said of Lynch, whom she worked with on his 1997 surrealist feature Lost Highway.

Lynch’s Lost Highway, like many of his films of the 90s, is a project focused on gender, sexuality, and sensuality. In the pic — which also stars Bill Pullman — Arquette’s character is involved in a prolonged nude scene. Arquette said that at the time, she had been “really uncomfortable with nudity.” However, she pushed on with the scene to challenge herself as an artist,...

Nicolas Cage fans rejoice with Arcadian, a new apocalyptic thriller starring Cage, premiering at SXSW and opening in theaters April 12th. Directed by Benjamin Brewer of Everything Everywhere All at Once, Arcadian features intriguing visual effects and a gripping script penned by Michael Nilon. In Arcadian, Cage stars alongside a talented cast in a story of survival against a mysterious evil in a decimated world. Check out the trailer!

Nicolas Cage has long been embraced by fans who thrive on the actor's truly unique swagger and craft, and lately, he's been keeping himself plenty busy with several new projects. One of them is a new apocalyptic survival thriller called Arcadian, which is getting its its World Premiere at SXSW Festival on March 11th and opens exclusively in theaters on April 12th. You can check out the trailer above and more information about the film below:

Arcadian, previously titled Sand and Stones,...

There is no denying that Martin Scorsese stands with some of the finest filmmakers that Hollywood has to offer. With films like The Wolf of Wall Street and Gangs of New York, the Oscar-winning director has been ruling over the hearts of film fanatics since time immemorial. However, despite having uncountable projects to his name, Martin Scorsese has barely touched the Horror genre with his films.

A still from Martin Scorsese’s Bring Out the Dead

Sure, he has touched the subject a few times with Shutter Island, Cape Fear, and Bringing Out the Dead, but Martin Scorsese has never made a full-blown horror movie. Now this doesn’t mean that the filmmaker is not into the genre. In fact, there is one film out there that was so full of dread that it became one of Martin Scorsese’s favorites in the genre.

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When Martin Scorsese strikes up a relationship with his cinematographer, the collaboration tends to last for more than one film. Throughout his legendary career, Scorsese has worked repeatedly with such top names in the art of cinematography as Michael Chapman, Michael Ballhaus, Robert Richardson, and now Rodrigo Prieto. The acclaimed cinematographer, who was an Oscar nominee for “Brokeback Mountain,” has been at Scorsese’s side for the last four of the master filmmaker’s projects. During that run, Prieto has received three Oscar nominations for his artistry.

“It is crazy to imagine that I could even one day in my career say, ‘Yeah, it’s my third nomination with Martin Scorsese for an Oscar.’ What are you talking about?” Prieto, who was nominated this year for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” tells Gold Derby in an exclusive video interview. “It’s thrilling and I feel very privileged to be in this position.

Is there a single director working today with a better track record than Martin Scorsese? Ever since breaking through with his gritty, scrappy crime drama “Mean Streets,” the Italian-American’s name has been synonymous with quality, and he’s kept that train going for several years. Some films were more acclaimed than others, but from the ’70s all the way to the 2020s, Scorsese has remained a consistent top-tier filmmaker, pumping out at least one or two stone-cold classics per decade.

What’s even more impressive is how adaptable and varied the man has proven himself to be. A refrain popular among internet contrarians is that Scorsese is just a dude who makes gangster movies, but one look at the films he’s made over the years shows that only scratches the surface of his capabilities and tastes. While his mafia films like “Goodfellas” and “The Irishman” are obvious greats,...

Nicolas Cage still finds one of his iconic lines in National Treasure ridiculous and can't help but laugh at it after almost 20 years. Cage appreciates the positivity and reverence his character has for the Declaration of Independence, even though the line has become a meme. The third National Treasure film has been in development for a long time, but there is no confirmation yet on whether it will be made.

Nicolas Cage may have been busy with some of the best movies of his career in recent years, but there are many fans who would still love to see him return to the National Treasure franchise. Despite his last outing as Benjamin Franklin Gates being 17 years ago, Cage would clearly think about making a third movie, and cannot believe that Disney have not green-lit one. He told Deadine:

"Yeah, well, they're a lot of fun. I mean, I enjoy them too,...

Nicolas Cage still finds one of his iconic lines in National Treasure ridiculous and can't help but laugh at it after almost 20 years. Cage appreciates the positivity and reverence his character has for the Declaration of Independence, even though the line has become a meme. The third National Treasure film has been in development for a long time, but there is no confirmation yet on whether it will be made.

Nicolas Cage may have been busy with some of the best movies of his career in recent years, but there are many fans who would still love to see him return to the National Treasure franchise. Despite his last outing as Benjamin Franklin Gates being 17 years ago, Cage would clearly think about making a third movie, and cannot believe that Disney have not green-lit one. He told Deadine:

"Yeah, well, they're a lot of fun. I mean, I enjoy them too,...

Nicolas Cage believes that Bringing Out The Dead is one of his best movies and deserves another look. The film was misunderstood and misinterpreted due to its misleading marketing as an action movie, when it was actually a moving character analysis. Despite its poor box office performance, Bringing Out The Dead received favorable reviews and could benefit from a new lease of life.

Nicolas Cage reminisces about his overlooked psychological drama film Bringing Out The Dead. Based on Joe Connelly’s novel of the same name, this Martin Scorsese-directed movie follows Frank Pierce, a burnt-out Manhattan ambulance paramedic who battles depression and insomnia following the stress of constantly rescuing lives and witnessing deaths. Nicolas Cage plays Pierce, and he’s joined by other names like Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Ving Rhames, and Tom Sizemore. Following Bringing Out The Dead’s theatrical release in 1999, it only grossed $16.8 million worldwide, against a production budget of $55 million,...

Renewed interest in Nicolas Cage’s career has led to many of the actor’s films being reappraised over the past few years, from ’90s blockbusters to off-the-wall indies. If Cage gets his way, the next film to ascend to classic status could be “Bringing Out the Dead.”

The 1999 film, which marked the final collaboration (to date) between director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader, stars Cage as a paramedic who endures a spiritual crisis when he begins to question the value of his vocation. It’s a quintessential Schrader script, weaving Biblical themes like faith, doubt, death, rebirth, and transcendence together against the secular backdrop of unforgivingly harsh New York streets.

In a new interview with Deadline, Cage opened up about his fondness for the Scorsese movie and the artistic risks it allowed him to take.

“Yeah, I love that movie, and I think it will stand the test of time,...