Goodfellas
Scorsese’s mob masterpiece is a thrilling black-comic nightmare and one of the big screen’s most virtuosic pieces of filmmaking.
“To me, being a gangster was even better than being President of the United States.”
Charting the rise and fall of Irish-Italian criminal Henry Hill from the 60s to the 80s, prepare to be immersed in world of toxic masculinity – a terrifyingly realistic portrayal of organised crime and how it operates.
The film is driven by unnervingly unforgettable characters. Ray Liotta is thrilling as Hill, driven by crime, but with flickers of a moral compass. Robert De Niro delivers another great mob performance as Jimmy “The Gent” Conway and, most disturbingly, there’s Joe Pesci as psychopathic Tommy DeVito.
This is the kind of film where you know that you are in the hands of a master filmmaker even before the opening credits roll.
Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz (1978) screens at BAC on Sat 14 Feb at 11am.
USA 1990. Director Martin Scorsese. With Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco. 146 mins. 18
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Reviews
★★★★★
Scorsese’s 1990 masterpiece zips along with relish, and his acting A-team – De Niro, Pesci, Liotta – are on top form as this brilliant comic nightmare unfolds.
★★★★★
If you're looking for evidence of the vital, passionate, wildly inventive Martin Scorsese we once knew and still love, then look no further than GoodFellas. It's yet another in his canon that was shamefully overlooked come Oscar time, now heralded as an undisputed masterpiece.