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...“Ever since I was a kid I always wanted to be a criminal,” he says by way of introducing himself in a new film — a line that sounds like the opening monologue from Goodfellas put through a thesaurus....
...And if it is hard to witness the goonish cruelty without recalling Goodfellas, that feels like the point: American violence, recurring....
...It dismays auteurs from the golden (or imagined golden) days of film: Martin Scorsese, director of Taxi Driver and Goodfellas has called it “brutal and inhospitable to art.”...
...This is no Henry Hill to De Niro’s Jimmy Conway, even if Ernest ultimately fares no better than his Goodfellas counterpart....
...Last year you were scoffing pizza like an extra from Goodfellas, now suddenly you’re working out and eating kale....
...The “Tiffany brand” of American film, it has been called: home of Stanley Kubrick and Humphrey Bogart, the money behind Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, the Harry Potter films, The Matrix, Bonnie and Clyde,...
...In his Film International essay “2008 and After”, writer Carl Freedman described Wolf as a companion to 1990’s Goodfellas, another film that finance bros apparently fetishise....
...Once, in the wake of Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas, the film looked stately by comparison....
...The pizzazz of Goodfellas — released three months earlier in 1990 — simply put the cherry on top. What makes Coppola’s movie fascinating now is its Darwinian self-knowledge....
...That may put you in mind of Goodfellas, but a better Scorsese comparison might be the director’s recent The Irishman....
...Goodfellas, he says, was an inspiration. “The rage was easy to tap in to,” Bahrani says. “But I also wanted to capture how funny Aravind’s book is. The sarcasm and satire and how playful it can be.”...
...Jon Stewart, the US comedian and talk show host, compared the deal to a scene in Goodfellas in which mobsters burn down a restaurant to collect the insurance....
...From butcher to business empire During a decade-long acquisition spree — in which Mr Boparan bought Northern Foods, a ready meals maker and owner of Fox’s Biscuits and Goodfella’s pizza; the Giraffe and...
...In April, Boparan’s holding company reported a 17.4 per cent decline in annual turnover to £2.7bn due to its sales of subsidiaries such as the Goodfellas pizza brand and Manton Wood sandwich business....
...After Goodfellas and Casino we thought we had had it all, for voluptuous crime-athons involving De Niro, Pesci and Scorsese. Now here’s another tree with golden rotten apples, sumptuously shaken....
...Keitel plays a younger version of the role that his co-star came to make his own in Goodfellas, Casino and The Irishman....
...Mr Bookbinder said the exchange constituted a “pretty clear implicit quid pro quo”, adding: “Anybody who has seen The Godfather or Goodfellas understands what it means when someone says we have done a lot...
...“Anybody who has seen The Godfather or Goodfellas understands what it means when someone says we’ve done a lot for you, now I’m asking for a favour.”...
...A Ukrainian president, moreover, must negotiate with western partners and the IMF, while engaging in more Goodfellas-style diplomacy with Russia’s Vladimir Putin....
...The comedian compared it to the scene in Goodfellas when mobsters burn down a restaurant to collect the insurance....
...It’s the familiar disconnect we recognise from gangster films such as Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction, men hiding from what they’re doing through the style with which they portray it to themselves....
...Goodfellas’ opening line would suit this captivating Italian crime drama even if it didn’t credit Martin Scorsese as executive producer....
...I have no doubt if you came in later with an unexpectedly large mob of goodfellas, you’d be able to create a suitable blowout....
...Throughout the book, Scaramucci complains of being unfairly typecast as a Goodfellas-esque Italian....
...Meanwhile, Boparan Holdings lost £53m overall in its four financial quarters to January, although it made a £76m profit in the three months to this April after selling its Goodfellas pizza brand for £200m...
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