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Martin Scorsese's 1990 masterpiece GoodFellas immortalises the hilarious, horrifying life of actual gangster Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), from his teen years on the streets of New York to his anonymous exile under the Witness Protection Program. The director's kinetic style is perfect for recounting Hill's ruthless rise to power in the 1950s as well as his drugged-out fall in the late 1970s; in fact, no one has ever rendered the mental dislocation of cocaine better than Scorsese. Scorsese uses period music perfectly, not just to summon a particular time but to set a precise mood. GoodFellas is at least as good as The Godfather witho
Martin Scorsese's 1990 masterpiece GoodFellas immortalises the hilarious, horrifying life of actual gangster Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), from his teen years on the streets of New York to his anonymous exile under the Witness Protection Program. The director's kinetic style is perfect for recounting Hill's ruthless rise to power in the 1950s as well as his drugged-out fall in the late 1970s; in fact, no one has ever rendered the mental dislocation of cocaine better than Scorsese. Scorsese uses period music perfectly, not just to summon a particular time but to set a precise mood. GoodFellas is at least as good as The Godfather without being in the least derivative of it. Joe Pesci's psycho improvisation of Mobster Tommy DeVito ignited Pesci as a star, Lorraine Bracco scores the performance of her life as the love of Hill's life, and every supporting role, from Paul Sorvino to Robert De Niro, is a miracle.
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Manufacturer: Warner
Release date: 7 August 2006
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 7321905191222
Tags: Crime (2), Organized Crime (2), Murder (2), Chuck Low (1), Witness Protection (1), Lorraine Bracco (1), AFI Top 100 (1), Mike Starr (1), Essential Cinema (1), AFI Top 100 (1997) (1), Vanity Fair 50 Greatest Films Of All Time (1), Frank Vincent (1), Paul Sorvino (1), Frank Sivero (1), Tony Darrow (1), Dramas (1), Frank DiLeo (1), Henny Youngman (1), Gina Mastrogiacomo (1), Catherine Scorsese (1)
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