Casavetes, (semi-)wrong again!
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 15 August 2008 18:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Fuck you.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 15 August 2008 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Pay me.
Goodfellas, easy.
-- nate woolls, Friday, August 15, 2008 7:07 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link
-- rent, Friday, August 15, 2008 2:21 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link
-- Jordan, Friday, August 15, 2008 12:45 PM (Friday, August 15, 2008 12:45 PM) Bookmark Link
somehow still haven't seen Casino. Of the ones I've seen (which i guess is about 3/4 of them) my favorites are King of Comedy, Raging Bull, and After Hours.
I think the Age of Innocence is a really underrated film.
― akm, Friday, 15 August 2008 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Most overrated: Goodfellas -- Eric H., Friday, August 15, 2008 2:32 PM (2 hours ago)
silly. wouldn't most overrated go to say, taxi driver? or raging bull? -- s1ocki, Friday, August 15, 2008 4:54 PM (1 hour ago)
Goodfellas, easy. -- nate woolls, Friday, August 15, 2008 7:07 AM (2 hours ago) -- rent, Friday, August 15, 2008 2:21 PM (3 hours ago) -- Jordan, Friday, August 15, 2008 12:45 PM (Friday, August 15, 2008 12:45 PM) -- Pleasant Plains, Friday, August 15, 2008 6:32 PM (6 minutes ago)
― Eric H., Friday, 15 August 2008 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Taxi Driver is too great to be overrated.
otm
― Edward III, Friday, 15 August 2008 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link
All I'm saying is that no president has ever been shot because the assassin had been watching too much GoodFellas.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 15 August 2008 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
that's some prime sub custos bait
― omar little, Friday, 15 August 2008 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
(xpost) That's right. Which makes me feel even better for voting Taxi Driver.
― Eric H., Friday, 15 August 2008 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I also enjoyed The Aviator which I guess makes me crazy. Voting KoC.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 15 August 2008 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
"one day, a great rain will come and wash the scum BLAH BLAH BLAH FUCK YOU PAY ME.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 15 August 2008 18:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Cassavetes, after seeing this film, hugged Scorsese and said, "Martin, you just spent a year of your life making shit!"
As if there weren't enough reasons already to worship JC.
Boxcar Bertha is certainly better than Cape Fear
Cape Fear is definitely towards the bottom of his oeuvre. But even there, Scorsese shows some remarkable subtlety. For the first thirty, forty minutes or so, his camera never meets a tripod, gliding all over the place as if it were resting on melted butter....until the scene where the killer and the daughter first talk (on a deserted stage, IIRC). And finally the camera calms down and we get a classic, even rote shot-reverse shot editing pattern during the conversation. Only now, after all that swirling, the rigid back-and-forth becomes unbearably intense.
There's nothing remotely like that in Boxcar Bertha.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 15 August 2008 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
No, but there is Barbara Hershey's tits.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 15 August 2008 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah but there is no De Niro's tits.
― Eric H., Friday, 15 August 2008 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
to be fair scorsese didn't have much involvement in producing those
― Edward III, Friday, 15 August 2008 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
at least he didn't spend a year of his life making A Woman under the Influence...
Hinckley's lousy aim is not Schrader & Scorsese's fault.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 15 August 2008 19:14 (fifteen years ago) link
CONTROPS
― Edward III, Friday, 15 August 2008 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link
"Marty! Kundun! I liked it!"
― goole, Friday, 15 August 2008 19:20 (fifteen years ago) link
definetely After Hours, no contest at all.
― Ludo, Friday, 15 August 2008 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link
(btw just watched the original Cape Fear and it beats the .. out of his remake, which, I guess was supposed to be funny)
― Ludo, Friday, 15 August 2008 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Oooh looks like a JC poll is up next if it hasn't been done already. That should bring out all the lovers.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 15 August 2008 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
wait til the box set comes out, KJ. (Chinese Bookie for me)
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 15 August 2008 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link
also, if King of Comedy wins this poll, Eric might watch it.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 15 August 2008 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Looking at this list makes me realise that I only really like Taxi Driver, The King Of Comedy and After Hours. And The Big ShaveCape Fear.
fixed
― DavidM, Friday, 15 August 2008 19:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Voted After Hours, anyway.
― DavidM, Friday, 15 August 2008 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Another Cassavetes box set is coming out? Links? (Love Streams forever and always)
― Kevin John Bozelka, Friday, 15 August 2008 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Voting Casino in the absence of Gangs.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 15 August 2008 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
absence of gags
― goole, Friday, 15 August 2008 19:40 (fifteen years ago) link
oh I'm sorry; they're releasing Cassavetes titles from an old Criterion box as singles. My mistake.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 15 August 2008 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
lololololol
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 15 August 2008 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I like New York New York (first one I saw in a theater)
Italianamerican is a hoot
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 15 August 2008 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Ever see the Freaky Friday remake with Lindsey Lohan? Her waking up out of bed with her mom inside her body was straight up "Rubber Biscuit" Harvey Keitel.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 15 August 2008 20:01 (fifteen years ago) link
wish this would come out on dvd already
― Edward III, Friday, 15 August 2008 20:05 (fifteen years ago) link
but for now unfortunately and appropriately Italianamerican is a boot
― omar little, Friday, 15 August 2008 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
i think these ones are great (to varying degrees): taxi driver, king of comedy, goodfellas
honorable mentions: mean streets, last waltz, after hours
ho-hummest: the departed
overratededest: raging bull
best film since goodfellas (challop): gangs of n.y.
other ones that i would watch again: new york, new york; last temptation; age of innocence
still need to see: casino
― tipsy mothra, Friday, 15 August 2008 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
(voted taxi driver because i saw it at an impressionable age and it pretty well blew me away)
goodfellas.
― latebloomer, Friday, 15 August 2008 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
King of Comedy. I was tempted by Last Temptation - I recently re-watched it and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I don't enjoy much of the rest of his work, even though I admire some of it.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 15 August 2008 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Just a quick bit of love for "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," which is devastating.
― Savannah Smiles, Friday, 15 August 2008 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link
(and which I just fucked up and failed to vote for)
With apologies to Jerry Lewis, that's the Scorsese movie I'm most looking forward to seeing.
― Eric H., Friday, 15 August 2008 22:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Casino just felt like GF2. Watching it that way, it fell way short.
I saw Casino in the theater, before ever having seen Goodfellas. That being the case, I've always perceived Goodfellas as sort of a rough draft and incomplete tale that was later retold and perfected with Casino. It's all about context I guess, but I think I'd even prefer Casino if I'd seen Goodfellas first. Casino has the meatier story.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 15 August 2008 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Eric H., Friday, August 15, 2008 6:41 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link
o man, 4 ilx posters like this movie. i can see why you needed to get out there and shake up the establishment, that shit is stifling.
― s1ocki, Friday, 15 August 2008 23:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Ugh, Cassavetes. You people need to realize that 3/4ths of his catalogue is shit.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 16 August 2008 00:54 (fifteen years ago) link
i'd post that in the RONG thread but someone already did that to me today so i'll end the vicious circle of violence
― velko, Saturday, 16 August 2008 01:13 (fifteen years ago) link
never been a fan of jc
― s1ocki, Saturday, 16 August 2008 01:14 (fifteen years ago) link
haha -- I made my comment fully aware that it might go in the RONG thread.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 16 August 2008 01:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Just ask yourself, Soto: WWJCD?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 16 August 2008 01:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I appreciate that Marty is this level of nerd. With staff helping of course.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/25/martin-scorsese-vhs-video-collection-archive
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 March 2024 20:33 (three weeks ago) link
Looks like he was cool using SLP
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:19 (three weeks ago) link