goodfellas

GONY and WOWS are great fun but they're not watch-twice movies

GONY is an entertaining view, but a second viewing didn't do as much for me beyond some of the spectacle and a DDL performance that was eclipsed by two superficially similar roles, both his own in There Will be Blood and Ian McShane in Deadwood (lunatics with old timey facial hair.)

otoh WOWS is i think a genuinely excellent film

Wolf of Wall Street depressed the shit out of me for reasons I'm not entirely comfortable with. It made me worried for the same reasons that parents used to get worried about their kids watching violent horror or action movies, that it was going to produce a generation of violent sociopaths. I can seriously see this being the film that inspires a whole generation of future corporate assholes who like their money and coke plentiful and their women disposable. I hate taking this kind of moralistic stance towards a film, but that is what three hours in the company of these people did to me.

rest assured -- we'd never elect a violent sociopath as president

Interesting history of Maurie the wig merchant
http://mafia.wikia.com/wiki/Martin_Krugman

Krugman was unable to drive. His wife would drive him wherever he needed to be.

"Maybe we should let him drive."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3fU_nrrxeA

lmao

amazing

i'd share that everywhere but i just saw that's your video lmao

Private insta's one thing, but if it's on ILX, it's public.

Sorry about the green stuff. Pollen might move slow, but pollen don't have to move for nobody.

pplains i salute thee

Man I love how Tommy’s stories (which you can barely get a handle on because we jump into them halfway through and everyone is cracking up) are basically stories about him getting the shit kicked out of him, or him torturing someone. And I love that they’re done in an old school hack comedian delivery style. Pesci is actually at this point maybe extremely underrated in this role, he’s incredible.

Also love the moment when Jimmy tells Henry, “forget about tonight” re: Morrie, which feels like an easy narrative trick to deceive the audience, but the actual murder that follows is telegraphed so much that it comes off more like Jimmy thinking Henry doesn’t have the stomach for it, and maybe doesn’t 100% trust him because of that. Not ready to whack him yet, but hedging his bets on what he allows him to witness.

DeNiro saying “hoof” is still A+

I've thought about the "forget about tonight" moment several times, and I thought Jimmy was genuinely gonna offer Morrie an amnesty -- until Morrie started busting his balls in the alley hours later.

Love the bit where Tommy's trying to remember some Western starring Humphrey Bogart and Jimmy offers "Shane?"

always love it when I remember how Pesci comes out of nowhere and starts beating Billy Batts (Frank Vincent) to death, and then how in Casino, Frank Vincent walks up behind Pesci and he and his men start beating him to death with bats.

Great movie and fuiud agree

Back it up one film: Vincent also gets a beating from Pesci in Raging Bull.

this recut of Liotta's Chantix commercial is A+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgM0OMTiVOw&feature=youtu.be

https://nofilmschool.com/2018/12/someone-re-cut-ray-liottas-chantix-commercial-scenes-goodfellas-and-its-pretty-awesome?fbclid=IwAR28EcQ3UMFNZ53_uawuNONXQo8iCeT4jWZOeX2gn8HXtoC4B7URDB24c10

Many people bring this scene up to me. It's where I beat the preppy who didn’t treat my girl w/ respect. #GoodFellas pic.twitter.com/VypJz7PVbV

— Ray Liotta (@rayliotta) December 15, 2016

Coming to the very late defense of Alex regarding After Hours. That film is brilliant, people.

yeah, it's great

Okay this is amazing

http://mrgodfrey.tumblr.com/post/157186647808/morries-wigs-behind-the-curtain

i love that. the Morrie commercial is too perfect.

RIP to Frank Adonis aka Anthony Stabile

RIP

https://i.imgur.com/6XGsF1K.png

Stabile was the club manager who complained to DeNiro about Tommy not paying his tab, right?

one of my favorite small moments is when Paulie's goons grab Henry's mailman off the street and he's just this regular innocent dude and they're yelling at him like "come here you piece of shit!" and "scumbag!"

didn't wanna get blood on your floor

"No more mail from ANYBODY"

Every time I pass the smith 9th st station on the F Or G I consider getting off and checking out the nice coats I heard Conway has stored there

You have been visited by the Liotta of Blades and are granted his boon of a prosperous springtime. pic.twitter.com/DcaO835f65

— Drift (@Inanity101) February 25, 2019

Can someone please point me to the Dances with Wolves thread?

https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/09/02/the-irishman-martin-scorsese-tested-de-aging-tech-by-recreating-goodfellas-scene

"We made a little set that looked a little like the original film, and then Bob got going," Scorsese revealed. "He did his monologues and soliloquies and different expressions. 'Get rid of the fur coat! Get rid of the Cadillac!' Then he went through a series of computer processes."

Pleeeease let me see this. Pleeease.

those computer processes in full

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--rqtwJreF--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/19052fq0upbxqgif.gif

Your daily reminder that the Goodfellas painting was based on an actual photograph from the November 1978 issue of National Geographic. pic.twitter.com/Uajqsa4wUI

— JustinBrannan (@JustinBrannan) April 2, 2020

Whaddaya want from me?

I've posted a couple of these movie-music Zooms I've been doing with a friend (we're getting close to 50, but I've tried to post sparingly). The first half of this one, and then the last 10 minutes, is on Goodfellas and Scorsese; there's 10 or 15 minutes on Jonathan Kaplan's Heart Like a Wheel in the middle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPW1RioUNko&list=PLa8ssW9Hiyic0Atijb9MO-itwoVAYq2tG&index=42

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPW1RioUNko&list=PLa8ssW9Hiyic0Atijb9MO-itwoVAYq2tG&index=42

Hmmnnn...need to figure this out.

If this doesn't work, I give up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPW1RioUNkos

I give up.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPW1RioUNko

https://64.media.tumblr.com/bb6de095d85963b7f909aa76cc84ba71/7282df40199fe7b7-f7/s540x810/5e1d59b863fa2c6c654852329a39a39d277ef788.gifv

https://64.media.tumblr.com/911c0ad16c2b2abe3ef8d6070b271bc7/749082bcbbe3e1d1-40/s500x750/132cc560f58ac3205e68df5367ee07f8aff8beae.gifv

Links are preferable to embeds anyway IMO.

It's probably endlessly repeated but on the Talking Sopranos podcast Michael Imperioli was telling the story of how he was taken to the emergency room for a cut on his hand when filming the scene where Spider gets killed and the staff called "code blue" and were cutting his suit open to treat gunshot sounds.

*wounds!

Probably a post about this somewhere in here; the Glenn Kenny book came out today.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/books/review-glenn-kenny-made-men-the-story-of-goodfellas-is-a-stellar-anatomy-of-a-film/