Goodfellas
To introduce the cycle, a lecture by a Mafia historian sets the tone. How does cinema relate to a certain Mafia mythology ? To what degree does it detach itself from it, or portray it in its most complex and troubled aspects ? The answer in fourteen films.
Goodfellas is a loose adaptation of journalist Nicholas Pileggi's Wiseguy, a book that tells the true story of New York gangster Henry Hill. Scorsese presents the rise and fall of this daring gangster, who committed his first crimes at the age of 16.
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese is an American filmmaker, actor, screenwriter, and producer. His body of work explores themes such as Italian-American identity, Catholic concepts of good and evil, guilt, redemption, faith, machismo, nihilism, crime, perdition, and violence. A major figure of the New Hollywood era, Scorsese is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential American filmmakers of his generation, thanks to classics such as Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, Gangs of New York, The Wolf of Wall Street, and many more. He is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and the president of the Film Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving film heritage and preventing the deterioration of film stock.
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