Roundup: Nurses, I guess.

It wasn't meant to be the theme, but.

“I think I like Bringing Out the Dead as much as I do because it has a spiritual obedience to death that has followed me my entire life, from the stained glass images of the crucifixion in my childhood, to the suicide of my grandmother, and my own suicidal ideation when I was an adolescent. All of that context is wrapped up in myself when I’m watching Bringing Out the Dead, and during the pandemic the movie became like a monument to the never-ending grief I felt for the situation we found ourselves in.”

At RogertEbert.com, Scout Tafoya and Willow Maclay talk about one of my favorite Scorsese movies, Bringing Out the Dead, where Nicolas Cage plays a haunted (figuratively and… literally) paramedic. It’s a great conversation, though it’s probably a little easier to follow once you’ve seen the movie (find it here).