White Wall Cinema: BRINGING OUT THE DEAD

Closing out the year much as we began it we are once again in the company of the world’s greatest living director Martin Scorsese (Raging Bull, The King Of Comedy, After Hours, Goodfellas, Casino, The Departed, Shutter Island, The Wolf of Wall Street) who brings us this stealth adaptation of A Christmas Carol.

Suffering from depression, insomnia, and occupational burnout, paramedic Frank (Cage) finds himself botching patient care and experiencing ghostly hallucinations. Collapsing under the strain of the job we follow Frank across three consecutive New York City night shifts accompanied by three different paramedics (John Goodman, Ving Rhames, Tom Sizemore) dealing with the kind of late night wildness only The Big Apple can deliver, his only salvation being a blossoming friendship with a recently treated patient’s daughter in the form of the ever brilliant Patricia Arquette. 

One of the most underrated films of Scorsese’s career it is directed with the all the virtuosity that one might expect from this true giant of cinema as well as being one of the more interesting works in his cannon, fusing the ghosts of Christmas with the night time hellscape of his beloved New York during the holiday season. Manic, poignant, funny, gothic, spiritual and compulsively entertaining, it’s entirely fitting as our White Wall Cinema Christmas special and final event of 2024. 

• DOORS: 7pm*
• START TIME: 7.30pm*
• RUN TIME: 121 mins
• CERT: 18