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
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 Good Fellas is based. As chance would have it, Pileggi was present in 2006 when friend and casino developer Steve Wynn accidentally stuck his elbow through Le Rêve, a Picasso painting that Wynn was about to sell to hedge funder Steve Cohen for $139 million.
http://cherylbernstein.blogspot.com/2008/10/one-dog-goes-one-way-and-other-goes.html
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 19:03 (thirteen years ago) link
btw this is blowing my mind a little bit
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
what do you want from me?
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Looks like somebody we know.
― omar little, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/hs455.snc4/50504_285901334226_940927_n.jpg
― am0n, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ nose icicle
Carbone's hair was always awful.
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
no way
― am0n, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
i still don't get why they froze a *friend* to death. is it explained in the book? i mean.. sheesh.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Jimmy did it himself. Paranoid that everyone involved would start singing. He was a psychopath who made the assumption that the more gruesome the death, the louder the signal would be.
― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link
mm i thought maybe he could have just ended up in the garbage though, with those others or gunned down or whatever. at least Morrie went quickly. frozen to death is so grim, possibly worse than the baseball bat method in Casino. it's debatable i guess!
― piscesx, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link