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Jaws 1975
As a self proclaimed film fan, I feel somewhat fraudulent for having gone so long without seeing some of the stone-cold classics. At least with the Godfathers I can claim the time commitment was too extreme, I haven’t found the consecutive three hour slots where the mob epics would fit and wholly absorb my focus. Trying to argue with myself proved fruitless, I had no reason not to have seen Jaws. Still, despite this pressing obligation to rectify my own…
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Bringing Out the Dead 1999
Bringing Out The Dead, Scorcese’s fourth collaboration with Paul Schrader, presents the tragedy of a guilt-addled paramedic in a city where suffering is not only cyclical and permanent but patiently brewing barely beneath each person. The streets are flooded with ghosts, Our Lady of Misery, the hospital where each night ends, is overflowing. Frank Pierce is a reluctant Christ-figure: saving lives chains him to responsibility as he digs through the city night after night, hoping to rediscover the feeling of…