goodfellas

breaking real-life relevance via the NYT

A federal jury in Brooklyn cleared Vincent Asaro on all counts in a trial for charges related to the 1978 Lufthansa robbery, along with other acts of racketeering and extortion.

Someone tell Scorsese I fixed his movie:

http://i.imgur.com/XvzP3t2.jpg

It'll still kill your suspension of disbelief if you look at it too closely, but it's better than what it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEjMyHccX8U

Saw this on 35mm in Astoria, more fully appreciated Chuck Low's performance as Morrie the toupee guy.

and yeah, all the Sopranos

man i'd love to see it again in the theater

it's possible i never knew that Scorsese's dad whacks Joe Pesci

(and tends the big sauce pot in prison)

Medium rare...eh, an arisocrat

aristocrat!!

"the hoof"

(ad lib by De Niro)

gotta hack it off. ma, it's a sin. you gonna leave it there? you know.

I knew he was tending the sauce, but I never connected that character to both scenes!

So many family members, tending the sauce.

(ad lib by De Niro)

iirc, the whole scene was ad-libbed.

Yes, largely improv'd it seems, but "hoof" was partic inspired along with Tommy's critique of Ma's painting.

Tho i first saw this in '90 (with my Italian boyfriend from Brooklyn!) it was the first time since i'd started heavily on Sopranos, so it was odd to hear "Melfi's voice" coming from Karen... She and Liotta both played the strung-out 1980 scenes well i thought.

(clearly improvisation is the way to draw indelible cameos from Mama Scorsese)

Love her scenes in the grocery store in Casino. I don't think her reaction to "I said 'freakin' head'!" could've been scripted.

Been thinking anyway about ~What If~ movies set in certain eras had to have soundtracks from the year they were released. Like, the opening napalm scene of Apocalypse Now forced to have Supertramp's "Gone Hollywood" under it.

Or...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZksF1FmKCrQ

i wonder, cuz i have no idea what "Wanna" is

I have a rare night to myself, should I go see Goodfellas at the Castro? I've never seen it on the big screen.

wonder if this is the same 35mm print Morbz saw

why wouldnt ya

idk some combination of laziness and poverty

plus I have seen it many times, albeit on a small screen

but the 35mm...

Go and see it.

GO SEE IT JFC WHY IS THIS A QUESTION

At work yesterday we discussed this scene. It's terrific how Paulie and Henry play this fool like a violin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxGjPCOpbv0

Always loved this imdb trivia:

For the scene where Sonny Bunz complains to Paulie, Martin Scorsese secretly told Tony Darrow to improvise more lines for his character without telling Paul Sorvino. Sorvino's confused reaction was real.

ok fine I'll go

:D

my favorite bit of V.O. in the film is the transition here:

When they found Sepe in the meat truck, he was frozen so stiff it took them two days to thaw him out for the autopsy.

Still, I never saw Jimmy so happy! He was like a kid.

sorry, Carbone...not Sepe

Continuity error in that clip: at 2:11 Paulie's got a cigar in his mouth, but it's suddenly gone at 2:12.

Paulie moved slow, but he smoked really fast.

Bah its not 35mm its 4k dcp

oh Castro, go get yer shinebox

what booooooooooooo castro

i wonder, cuz i have no idea what "Wanna" is

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, February 15, 2017 5:52 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's "I Wanna Be Adored" by Stone Roses, 1991.

It's just "Wanna" on Youtube because I don't want copyright police to shut it down (though I guess they can just Shazam it, as the do with everything else.)

Lol the organist is playing that's amore

you wanted "Layla"?

"Jump Into The Fire"

so this was pretty good

confirmed good film

this scorsese guy, I think he could really go places

was sweet when the crowd clapped for Ballhaus' credit at the end. I did not stick around for the Marriage of Maria Braun, however (sorry Werner)

the pace of this movie is incredible, it's like the shortest two-and-a-half-hour movie ever made

yeah I was really struck by that at the point where it circles back to the opening scene w Batts in the trunk - all this amazing stuff has flown by, one adrenaline rush after another for about 30 minutes (?) - and then bang oh yeah, here we are back at the beginning, where things start to *really* go wrong.

the final shots of him in suburbia still felt a bit abrupt. His betrayal/turning rat happens really quickly and while I love when he walks out of the docket and talks directly to the camera, it's a bit disconcerting that there's not a more dramatic denouement for Jimmy and Paulie besides the post-script text

the suburbia stuff worked because it is so abrupt, in my opinion, and you can see how it would feel worse than prison for Hen-dry.

yeah, henry's been in freefall for a while and suburbia is the crash landing. it's all over for him and he's our pov, so why hang around to watch him clip coupons or wait in line at the post office or whatever?