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• Jesus... how many times should that film be discussed? 300? 500? - Victor Khomenko 17:23:50 10/05/10 (3)
  In Reply to: RE: Getting Made The Scorsese Way: Goodfellas behind the scenes posted by Harmonia on October 05, 2010 at 11:21:46

  With perhaps hundreds of thousands of films out there, to limit the discussions to a handful of common titles - seems such a travesty.
  
  When was last time someone here mentioned any great director from outside the US (I mean besides tin with his Bela Tarr fixation)?
  
  Soon there will be people with PhD in Star Wars and Graduate work in Goodfellas, as if these represented the pinnacle of human achievement.
  
  How about some... ahem... diversity?
  

  
  
  
  

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  • Piffle...as many times as we want.. - Harmonia 18:50:43 10/05/10 (2)
    In Reply to: RE: Jesus... how many times should that film be discussed? 300? 500? posted by Victor Khomenko on October 05, 2010 at 17:23:50

    Lighten up.
    
    You got a peculiar idea of what constitutes a travesty. Posting a link to an interesting new article on an American classic ain't it.
    
    Meanwhile, there are plenty of threads on this forum discussing foreign filmmakers. You want to discuss great directors from outside US?? Feel free.
    
    Check my posts...I think you'll find my range of film interests to be fairly wide ranging.
    
    Past to present, here's a few filmmakers I've mentioned on this forum:
    
    Jean Renoir
    Jean Cocteau
    Carl Dreyer
    Georg Pabst
    Fritz Lang
    Sergei Eisenstein
    Jean Vigo
    Jasujiru Ozu
    Josef Von Sternberg
    Akira Kurosawa
    Kaneto Shindo
    F.W. Murnau
    Ingmar Bergman
    Sajiit Ray
    David Lean
    Luis Bunuel
    Bertrand Tavernier
    Michael Powell
    Carol Reed
    Jean Luc Godard
    Francois Truffaut
    Jean Pierre Melville
    Alain Resnais
    Nic Roeg
    Michelangelo Antonioni
    Pier Pasolo Pasolini
    Vittorio De Sica
    Roberto Rosellini
    Robert Bresson
    Kon Ichikawa
    Kenji Mizoguchi
    Abbas Kiarostami
    Andrei Tarkovsky
    Lindsay Anderson
    Yimou Zhang
    Susanne Bier
    Bent Hamer
    Atom Egoyen
    Wong Kar Wei
    Krzysztof Kieślowski
    Michael Winterbottom
    Peter Weir
    Peter Greenaway
    Jane Campion
    Michael Haneke
    Danis Tanovic
    Andrei Zvyagintsev
    Alfonso Cuaron
    Stephen Frears
    Edward Yang
    Pedro Almovodar
    Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
    (to name but a few)
    
    So...who ya wanna discuss? I love at least one film from each of the above. Pick one.
    
    Or, how about an obscure but important (and highly influential) avante garde American, Stan Brakhage, and his new Criterion release? Wanna take that on?
    
    As far as I'm concerned, no one here has to appease the culture police to discuss movies he/she liked, loved or hated, including genre films. Many of us here are Americans, so why shouldn't we discuss Scorsese and one of his best works? Or any American film/filmmaker for that matter? There are plenty of mediocre blockbusters and popular misses that I don't care for but that inmates want to discuss - they can go right ahead but I don't need to pee all over the thread on why I don't like The Dark Knight.
    
    And we'll have fun with SF and comic movies too, if we want.
    
    Meanwhile, the subject in this thread is Goodfellas.
    
    Pffft!
    
    
    

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    • My god... - powermatic 19:42:10 10/05/10 (0)
      In Reply to: RE: Piffle...as many times as we want.. posted by Harmonia on October 05, 2010 at 18:50:43

      impressive comeback. Seriously.
      
      Perhaps I now won't be so shy, and will open up that long-planned thread comparing Michael Bay's oeuvre to the complete works of Kurosawa!
      
      
      
      "dammit"
      
      

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    • "the subject in this thread is Goodfellas." Seems to be weekly event. nt - Victor Khomenko 19:02:45 10/05/10 (0)
      In Reply to: RE: Piffle...as many times as we want.. posted by Harmonia on October 05, 2010 at 18:50:43

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• Great link. Thanks. (Hoping they still make shirts with those collars somewhere.) (nt) - semuta 17:05:17 10/05/10 (1)
  In Reply to: RE: Getting Made The Scorsese Way: Goodfellas behind the scenes posted by Harmonia on October 05, 2010 at 11:21:46

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  • Those collars... - Harmonia 18:55:54 10/05/10 (0)
    In Reply to: RE: Great link. Thanks. (Hoping they still make shirts with those collars somewhere.) (nt) posted by semuta on October 05, 2010 at 17:05:17

    Astonishing looking, aren't they? Although I confess they look uncomfortable as hell.
    

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• RE: Getting Made The Scorsese Way: Goodfellas behind the scenes - Dave Mester 13:32:16 10/05/10 (3)
  In Reply to: RE: Getting Made The Scorsese Way: Goodfellas behind the scenes posted by Harmonia on October 05, 2010 at 11:21:46

  Yeah, one of my favorite movies, and Joe Pesci absolutely deserved the Oscar.
  

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  • Pesci deserved his Oscar...but... - Harmonia 13:45:40 10/05/10 (2)
    In Reply to: RE: Getting Made The Scorsese Way: Goodfellas behind the scenes posted by Dave Mester on October 05, 2010 at 13:32:16

    ...the movie and Scorsese should have statues that year too - IMO Liotta's performance is way underrated as well. He's the glue that holds the whole thing together.
    
    I remember when I first heard the studio wanted Madonna for the role of Karen Hill - unbelievable. I saw her on Broadway in Speed The Plough...inept is the kindest thing I can say about her thespian abilities. shw wasn't even good high school level. Thank God Marty got his way and cast Lorraine Bracco and Ray Liotta...Can you imagine Tom Cruise and Madonna in those pivotal roles? RETCH.
    

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    • Or now, LEO! * - mr grits 17:28:49 10/05/10 (0)
      In Reply to: RE: Pesci deserved his Oscar...but... posted by Harmonia on October 05, 2010 at 13:45:40

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      Share a bowl of grits with someone you love tonight.
      
      

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    • You have - Craiger56 14:50:56 10/05/10 (0)
      In Reply to: RE: Pesci deserved his Oscar...but... posted by Harmonia on October 05, 2010 at 13:45:40

      ..vision, focus and wisdom.
      
      Cheers
      

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• Yeah, an ex-coworker sent me this last week - Jazz Inmate 11:32:34 10/05/10 (0)
  In Reply to: RE: Getting Made The Scorsese Way: Goodfellas behind the scenes posted by Harmonia on October 05, 2010 at 11:21:46

  I especially like the comments by Michael Imperioli about how the Spider scene was largely improvised, and questioning whether Sopranos would have existed if not for Goodfellas. But all the comments gave great insight.
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