goodfellas

Still, I never saw Jimmy so happy!

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DeNiro never gets enough credit for knocking that phone booth over.

im usually too distracted by his inability to cry in that scene

mm that and the random guy walking past in the background.

this "guy was frozen to death" theory is like some sub-"sleep! that's where I'm a viking" level nonsense

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

my father has carbone hair.

its utterly amazing.

Make that coffee to go.

Oh man, finally getting to the end of this (after watching the first 90 mins on Netflix week before last) and Councilman Sheeeee-it from The Wire is the doc at the hospital when Henry Hill is picking up Kevin Corrigan!

http://i.imgur.com/C61JV.jpg

That rules.

btw The fact that the dog painting is based on a real photograph is one of my favorite things I learned in a long while so thank you for that PP.

love the freeze frames

love the brief half a second shot of the car springs releasing as the fat guy gets out at the beginning

CREAM feat.e.clapton

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

I want these glasses!

corey do you like this movie

ray liotta looks like jude law, or jude law looks like ray liotta, must be that eyeliner

ACTORS BE BEIN ACTIN shockah

idk it's that glint in ray's eye, saw the same in jude's in A.I., conniving slick con gaze

lol "layla" came on the radio today and the first thing i thought was "by the time they found carbone in the meat truck..."

I heard a dirgey, New-Orleans style "Layla" done by Clapton and Wynton Marsalis on the radio today; I didn't think of Goodfellas.

<3 frankie carbone

http://content7.flixster.com/question/36/73/89/3673893_std.jpg

corey do you like this movie

― has anyone seen my man-pants (rip van wanko)

"a dirgey, New-Orleans style "Layla" done by Clapton and Wynton Marsalis" <-- i see them both propped up in their fancy car shot through the face, and rightly so

wanted to add something about how P Kael was a clueless fool re this film, but I gotta get the papers get the papers

For what it's worth, Kael didn't slam Goodfellas the way she did Raging Bull. She clearly recoiled from Raging Bull; with Goodfellas, it was like she recognized a lot of what people loved about it, and dutifully acknowledged those things, but didn't have any enthusiasm for the film herself. There's an odd tone to the review, something close to resignation. I think she was wrong both times (think the reviews are excellent, though, and have read them many times), but I think she was more conflicted about Goodfellas.

liotta's dead-eyed rictus gape when laughs is the best thing about liotta

Agree with clemenza re: Kael's review. Its like she couldn't work up the lather to dismiss it like you could tell she wanted to; there's almost a feeling of her heart not being in it anymore. Can it be a coincidence that it came only weeks before she announced her departure from TNY?

(also, fuck this thread, cause I really wanna watch Goodfellas now and don't have anywhere near the time for it.)

weeks? I recall it coming out in Sept or Oct of '90, she didn't leave til '91.

My mistake. I was thinking it was weeks rather than months since Goodfellas is one of the last reviews in Movie Love. It was basically at the end of her New Yorker run, though.

AMC developing a TV series of it w/ Pileggi and Irwin Winkler.

MADE MEN

huh

I hope the series is a lengthy prequel that culminates in the painting of

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_F5fY63LECJY/SOK9WDbQM3I/AAAAAAAAAgM/REmi-vVCl0M/s400/blog+Pileggi+two+dogs.jpg

wish that said "Henry Winkler"

schnook life

http://www.wearysloth.com/Gallery/ActorsS/16035-7534.jpg

yeah all these dudes need to be in it of gtfo

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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.

A picture of the actual photograph is buried somewhere itt iirc.

Here's hoping they expand Vincent Gallo's role from the movie

I love how fake everybody's laugh is in this movie

Yeah, for real

There's a corollary to that in the last season or two of Sopranos, where Tony tells a joke tO his crew and they're all shown laughing in slow-mo as Tony realizes it's all really just toadying up

Damn, lotsa arguing in this thread

You really ARE a funny guy

It was real greaseball shit.

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I just spent a minute trying to complete this sentence: "Please hook me up with ______________'s Twitter feed." But everybody I thought of got whacked.