THE IRISHMAN, A Martin Scorsese Picture with de Niro, Pacino, Pesci, Keitel

I think there's about a 60% chance this could be very good and a 20% chance it could be great and a 5% chance it could be better than Goodfellas

#pesci

it's their last hurrah isn't it

de Niro said a couple years ago he was gonna make another w/ Marty "before we die"

the Joe Gallo role seems suited to Cannavale though i get Luca Brasi vibes from the real Gallo.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Joseph_„Joey“_Gallo.jpg

on location in Paterson

http://gothamist.com/2017/09/17/jim_jarmusch_is_why_martin_scorsese.php

Nice.

Behind the scenes Al Pacino, Bobby DeNiro & Martin Scorsese. First time these 3 heavy hitters are workin together. The Irishman drops in ‘19 pic.twitter.com/rMy7FFW2lA

— 🇸🇻MojadoULove2Hate (@GoldenSt8OfMind) October 12, 2017

Can't wait! Anyone read the book?

Has Scorsese directed Pacino before at all?

no

I thought that was Alec Baldwin in the picture at first.

Al may be wearing more prosthetics than he did in Dick Tracy

Just that now it's his hips

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/500/0*O1cRw-28sMl60aQd.jpg

“Jimmy and Russell were very much alike. They were solid muscle from head to toe. They were both short, even for those days. Russ was about 5'8". Jimmy was down around 5'5". In those days I used to be 6'4", and I had to bend down to them for private talks. They were very smart from head to toe. They had mental toughness and physical toughness. But in one important way they were different. Russ was very low-key and quiet, soft-spoken even when he got mad. Jimmy exploded every day just to keep his temper in shape, and he loved publicity.”

Having Pacino play the loud one and Pesci the quiet one just don't make no sense

Pesci should have played the loud one and Pacino should have also played the loud one

Pacino has been not-loud maybe 3x in 25 years

Pesci may have lost his volume w/ age

His preferred mode of elocution now is a soft croon

a wrap

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bf9LhVKhTPJ/?hl=en&taken-by=martinscorsese_

opens the NYFF on Sept 27

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/07/martin-scorsese-the-irishman-first-look-new-york-film-festival-1202161441/

NYFF festival director Kent Jones, who previously worked for Scorsese’s World Cinema Foundation, heaped praise on the new film in a glowing statement: “‘The Irishman’ is so many things: rich, funny, troubling, entertaining and, like all great movies, absolutely singular,” he said. “It’s the work of masters, made with a command of the art of cinema that I’ve seen very rarely in my lifetime, and it plays out at a level of subtlety and human intimacy that truly stunned me. All I can say is that the minute it was over my immediate reaction was that I wanted to watch it all over again.”

hmmmmmmmm

good thing Jones is there to prop up this upstart

Noticed this in the cast list on wiki: Jim Norton as Don Rickles

I hear Don spinning

My first thought was, why would Don Rickles be spinning over Bishop Brennan? Then I googled to discover there's another Jim Norton I've never heard of and who's as well known in the UK as Don Rickles was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Expe7hf6MU

looks rich, funny, troubling, entertaining and, like all great movies, absolutely singular tbh

when I was reading Ellroy's fictional version of Hoffa in American Tabloid. I pictured him much more like Pesci than Pacino tbh!

When did "teaser trailer" become a thing? What makes that a "teaser" and not a "trailer?"

Another trailer trend I've seen (not this one) is where the trailer includes sort of a rapid fire sequence of scenes before the trailer begins, like a micro-trailer for the trailer.

There's generally another longer trailer more focused on narrative, which distinguishes it from a teaser I guess

The micro-trailer thing is annoying, yeah. It's a social media thing. Six seconds to grab people's attention, etc.

"You might be demonstrating the failure to show appreciation."

always suspected Scorcese had one more gangster film in him, one about the top-level guys that *really* run shit from the back of a grocery store in Casino - it would complete the tetralogy, going up the ladder from small-time hoods in Mean Streets to the "soldiers" in Goodfellas up through the higher-ranking mafioso in "Casino".

I hope this is that movie, it kinda looks like it is

You could--depends how you feel about Mean Streets--argue that that line moves in the wrong direction, and that he should instead reverse course and go make a film about the two teenagers who try to buy fireworks from the small-time hoods in Mean Streets.

The CG in THE IRISHMAN trailer (and any trailer, for that matter) is not finished and will probably be worked on until right before the release date. The trailer was probably cut with very early renders and have improved by several generations in the current edit.

— Jason Overbeck (@bentclouds) July 31, 2019

People should not watch trailers and they should definitely not talk about them in the depressing, exhausting way that they like to do, on the internet

As if watching Robert De Niro playing 6ft 4 Irishman needed such hard sell tactics.

Jimmy Hoffa was alive until at least 1975, which is a relief as I'd been worried Scorsese wouldn't be able to get "Gimme Shelter" into THE IRISHMAN.

— Scott Von Doviak (@vondoviak) July 31, 2019

prob no Dropkick Murphys at least

I so badly want to dunk on this movie where Joe Pesci's rotting corpse plays a CGI mobster, but Silence was so good that I'm actually inclined to give it the benfit of the doubt.

Also the CGI doesnt look that bad in the trailer tbh

I’m not kidding myself, it’s going to be awful and distracting. But I’ll still watch the f out of this

I found out there's an interview with Hoffa on YouTube from my very own hometown's ABC station, WEWS-TV5. It appeared on Cleveland's Morning Exchange, and guessing by the age of host Fred Griffith, I'm guessing it's around 1972 or 1973.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCyZ9-AVNWE&t=129s

that was... not the topic I was expecting

A hero of labor!

Wild to me that Hoffa's son,also James,is current Teamsters president.

I will see this dumb movie in the theatre and I will enjoy it

Wild to me that Hoffa's son,also James,is current Teamsters president.

My union boss. (Really, I am a Teamster: https://teamsters2010.org/ )

hey guys it’s our friend Ned! boy i was just saying to the fellas what a real stand up guy you are.
*sweats*
😬

I heard he paints houses.

I'm glad we had this talk.

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Thought you were a librarian