I just can't fathom what accent Joe Pesci was using in Casino – he's like a hamster from Bed-Stuy.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
haha pesci's narration voice in casino is one of the most unpleasant sounds in movies for me
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i think those guys are just less interesting. they're just rich guys who let everyone else do the bad stuff for them.
― If Airplanes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport (s1ocki), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:46 (3 minutes ago)
don't rly get this, ratzinger is no less interesting a study of corrupt piety because he's not actually in a parish and fucking the kids himself
rather the rarified brutality and simpering acolytes of the godfather archetype make for thrilling gesture politics, the slightest intimation of distaste that can have some cunt's throat slit at a moment's notice...
― The Managing Director of Being (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
admitting my original disdain for Casino was based on a hour caught on USA, I tried to rewatch it but 45 minutes in it felt like we were still in the intro. I know I'm touchier than most about narration but honestly it felt like a radio play over a photo montage. If anything it was more enjoyable with basic cable putting it through the "Pallies" editing machine.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
atzinger is no less interesting a study of corrupt piety because he's not actually in a parish and fucking the kids himself
why you giving him ideas
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
that sentence is disgusting xxp
― If Airplanes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport (s1ocki), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n-rGnI9XNo
― da croupier, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Casino is bloated, but the good stuff in it (Woods, De Niro working in his office without any pants, the grocery store scenes, Don Rickles, etc) is great
― Gene Shalit in a Child's Sailor Hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
it's supposed to be disgusting, i'm comparing the church to a criminal organiation wrt their institutionalized criminality and 'omerta'
― The Managing Director of Being (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
has scorsese really done a movie that goes hardcore with the catholicism* since mean streets? i mean it underlines everything, but i don't remember it as a major onscreen force. maybe his next flick will give us leo d. as a conflicted priest and daniel day as mustachioed pedo deacon.
*no last temptation of christ jokes plz.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
the scene where the gaming commish comes to plead forgiveness for his son is awesome
also where they catch the cheats
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Last Temptation is such a weird movie
― Gene Shalit in a Child's Sailor Hat (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
has scorsese really done a movie that goes hardcore with the catholicism* since mean streets?
I would argue that The Age of Innocence is heavy with Catholic guilt despite its characters being Episcopalian.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i said deacon when i meant cardinal. i'm gonna get my knuckles whacked.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
you're gonna get your eye popped out of your head
― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe his next flick will give us leo d. as a conflicted priest and daniel day as mustachioed pedo deacon.
lol you know martin's planning a movie about jesuit priests in japan starring Danny D-L, right?
― da croupier, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
one eye's going one way, the other eye's going the other way
― If Airplanes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport (s1ocki), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
and the brain's sayin', "what do you want?"
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
O_o
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2009/02/screw-super-bowl-scorsese-day-lewis-and.html
it may never actually get made, scorsese's saying he's doing one or two more first
― da croupier, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
now saying, I mean
― da croupier, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
"going to be a grim slide, Catholic guilt suffer-fest in Jesuit robes."
now that's entertainment.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
The Last Temptation Goes To Kundun!
― da croupier, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
he never goes all the way to the top.
ep one of boardwalk empire gives you a lil glimpse of the outfit
not enough imo
― l'avventura: pet detective (history mayne), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7906245/Goodfella-Henry-Hill-still-living-in-hiding-20-years-after-film-release.html
so weird how this article describes as still being in hiding when dude gets paid to like, make appearances at nightclubs
― cathy: ACK-er (s1ocki), Saturday, 9 October 2010 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Isn't he also opening restaurants and calling into Howard Stern every five minutes?
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Saturday, 9 October 2010 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah... he is such a fishy character
― cathy: ACK-er (s1ocki), Saturday, 9 October 2010 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
He was moved 10 times to areas including Nebraska and Kentucky, living under aliases such as Martin Lewis and Peter Haines.
Was Abbot Costello already taken?
Also http://issuu.com/iheartau/docs/au69 p. 38
― http://tinyurl.com/hommphommp (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 9 October 2010 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha. There are two guys who own a bar downtown who are named Martin and Jerry, and I always think their bizarro counterparts should be called Dean and Lewis.
― roast rage against the hoosteen (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 October 2010 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Luckily I was in a sandwich shop yesterday that had a copy of GQ from last fall with that oral history (linked above, but I missed this thread). Loved it.
― the point at which the whole world gets to try on the glasses (Eazy), Monday, 10 January 2011 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
"People like John Turturro would come by and put sunglasses on and try to be an extra."
― the point at which the whole world gets to try on the glasses (Eazy), Monday, 10 January 2011 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Also: picturing the potential Tom Cruise as Henry Hill, Madonna as his wife, Malkovich in the DeNiro role.
― the point at which the whole world gets to try on the glasses (Eazy), Monday, 10 January 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
lol john turturro is hero status imo
― zvookster, Monday, 10 January 2011 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Kind of want to go watch both but I know there's no way I could sit that long in a theater.
http://feitheatres.com/somerville-theatre/double-feature-goodfellas-and-casino-feb-9-12/
Will most def watch gf though.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I saw Casino in the theater, but haven't ever seen Goodfellas except for on television. Kinda weird since it's my favorite movie. Let us know what you notice different.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I will. Yeah, I haven't either. I distinctly remember my parents going and leaving me with a babysitter then coming home and talking about how good but "brutal" it was.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I was watching Casino the other night on television, and stuff like the car explosion at the beginning, the white overhead lighting on the mob bosses and stuff like the casino activity behind DeNiro's desk is diminished.
The desert scenes were real cool, but on TV, it kinda comes across like a CSI episode.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I saw Casino and Heat around the same time at the sketchy Skyway Theater in downtown Minneapolis. The season of long movies.
Goodfellas is so focused on the idea of neighborhoods as central to identity, and Casino is an interesting progression from there to this patch of sand that is nobody's neighborhood. It's like Goodfellas is Europe and Casino is the new world.
― like launch the globs and strands (Eazy), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Goodfellas is so focused on the idea of neighborhoods as central to identity
I'm so into this idea. Like, in general.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
That was really profound, I know. lol.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
http://s11.acephotos.org/images/orig/x/1/x1xwe9ctlqn33nt.jpg
― am0n, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
haha. That's going to be my ILX avatar when it's turned on next month.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
carbone
― am0n, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
"No, we'll get him to drive! Probably get there faster."
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
"Get the fuck outta here – what `warmin' up'?"
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 17:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Come on, make that coffee to go, let's go.
― Son of Sisyphus of Reaganing (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l4rg10iPPP1qz6f4bo1_r1_500.jpg
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
what the FUCK
― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
wait waht?
well . . . i just learned something
The oil of the two dogs was painted by Nicholas Pileggi’s mother, and is based on a photograph from the November 1978 issue of National Geographic. Pileggi was the author of Wise Guy, a treatment of the life of gangster Henry Hill, on which GoodFellas is based.
This may have been common knowledge but I wasn't aware. Whaddya want from me?
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
At first I thought someone v v painstakingly recreated the painting but I was like wait a second . . . and then the internet came through.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link