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...Bringing Out the Dead, Martin Scorsese resurrects a Manhattan savior of the streets in Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage), a burned-out medic who has lost faith in himself and is haunted by the ghost of a girl he couldn't save. He finally finds redemption with the help of Mary (Patricia Arquette), whose own suffering brings them together. Here, Scorcese revisits his Last Temptation of Christ with a bit of Taxi Driver thrown in. With enough Christian motifs packed into the film to revive Sunday school memories for any born-again atheist, this movie explores the world of the paramedics...
...Basic message: Everyone needs a little bit of love, and a whole lot of salvation. For Frank, however, salvation is something he can't find because everywhere he sees Rose, the ghost of a girl he couldn't save. Saving lives to replace the ones he has lost is not the redemption he seeks. Instead he needs absolution that will help him understand the limits of his role. And he finds this through Mary, the daughter of a heart attack victim. A reformed druggie, Mary hovers between the worlds of Frank's hell and that of the living, as they...
...last weekend in Lynchburg, when Jerry Falwell preached a radically different kind of sermon, a ghost from Laramie was in the room...
...billboards and shopwindows from the Damascus suq to the Mediterranean coast. The favorite depicts Assad in an almost holy trinity with Bashar and Basil, Assad's idealized eldest boy and chosen successor until his car-crash death in 1994. Syrians are calling the ubiquitous montage Father, Son and Holy Ghost...
...quiet, implacable Englishman--he may as well be a ghost--scours L.A. for his daughter's murderer. Nothing much, nothing new here, unless you care to study how the fingernails of time have raked across Terence Stamp's still handsome face, or see Peter Fonda playing the cool drug lord his Easy Rider character might have become. As he did in Out of Sight, Soderbergh slices, dices and Cuisinarts the script into flashbacks, scene shifts, stop motion and other distracting foolery. Is he working out a new form of visual storytelling, or has the ever-so-promising director...