Amazon.com Essentials:
Martin Scorsese's 1990 masterpiece GoodFellas
immortalizes 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.
Amazon.com Essentials:
Martin Scorsese's 1990 masterpiece GoodFellas
immortalizes 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.
