goodfellas

(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?

yeah you can always listen to Hill's '90s appearances on the Howard Stern show

I didn't mean more shots of him being bored in suburbia I meant something that maybe leaned on the ramifications and fallout of his betrayal on the others

one thing I did notice on rewatch that I hadn't thought about much before is how many children are in the movie - kids are constantly shown as (mostly) mute observers, helpless bystanders and occasionally helpless accomplices to the behavior of these psychos

so this ones worth watching?

dude has released so much it looks like he poops it all out once a year

well it's no Star Wars: The Force Blows Up a Death Star Pt VIII

it is just like Inception tho

sounds good enough

check out taxi driver if u haven't heard/seen it tho

pretty decent

other random thought: the music cues in the coke bust sequence are crazy, in my memory that whole thing was just Jump Into the Fire, but there's like 7 or 8 songs all cut together through the whole thing

From the GQ piece ∞ linked to in the Spinal Tap thread:

http://www.gq.com/story/spinal-tap-vs-hollywood

Consider producer Irwin Winkler's 2015 suit against Warner Bros., which stated he hadn't been paid his 50 percent share of the net profits from the 1990 Mob classic Goodfellas. According to the complaint, Warners sent periodic net-profit reports for a while (the studio eventually stopped, claiming the film would never, ever be in the black), but those reports intentionally misrepresented how much the film had made (allegedly more than $275 million). Winkler claimed that Warners had concealed about $140 million in revenue by playing a sort of shell game with its wholly owned subsidiary, Warner Home Video, and had also charged fees and interest on past fees. “This was ‘studio accounting’ on steroids,” the suit alleged. “It was also fraud.” Warners settled last year.

The film only did modest bizness at the box office; I would imagine home video turned it around.

lol *27* Sopranos castmembers were in this

other random thought: the music cues in the coke bust sequence are crazy, in my memory that whole thing was just Jump Into the Fire, but there's like 7 or 8 songs all cut together through the whole thing

A favorite Scorsese cue nobody talks about: Syncing Henry's rejuvenating bump of coke to the 70s Waters/Winter version of "Mannish Boy".

I love that he only uses the opening line of "Mannish Boy" and then segues into "What Is Life." And the "Magic Bus" edit/usage is perfect.

yeah Magic Bus is only in there for like 5 seconds!

tarfumes

hollywood accounting right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting