Goodfellas | | Cast : | Martin Scorsese | | Director : | | | Studio : | Warner Home Video | | Format : | Box set, Surround Sound, Widescreen, Collector's Edition, Color | | Released Date : | September 19, 1990 | | DVD Released Date : | August 17, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | July 21, 2005 | | Summary | The BEST Scorsese box set on DVD! | Content
 | This is a brilliant collection of Scorsese's films, an even better collection than MGM's Scorsese Box Set! It gives us a Special Edition of "Goodfellas", Scorsese's first film (finally on DVD) "Who's That Knocking At My Door?", "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore", a Special Edition of "Mean Streets" and (another finally on DVD) "After Hours".
The gems of this collection are Mean Streets, After Hours, and Goodfellas. These three films are considered to be among Scrosese's best! Pick this up today if you're a Scorsese fan, or a film buff, or if you're trying to get into Scorsese's work. Recommended. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 20, 2005 | | Summary | The Best | Content
| Think of a world with out Martin Scorsese....... I don't want to, he's the best, and the only! |
| Rating | | | Date | December 03, 2004 | | Summary | Marty is God, no, not good, God !! | Content
| This collection is the must have of any Marty fan and for that matter of any proper cinephile. Through 5 movies it traces the greatest part of Scorsese's stellar (until gangs of NY) carreer. It is extremely precious since it brings us "Who's that knocking at my door?", his first film shot when he was still studying in NYU, for the first time (to my poor French knowledge at least). The box really gives a wonderful overview of the themes that obsessed him in his young years (sex and religion, duty and punition) pictured in WTKAMD and Mean Streets, the film that made him big enough to introduce him to Hollywood, first in B-Movies ("Boxcar Bertha"), then to Oscar winning projects: "Alice doesn't live here anymore". This movie is extremely odd since it could seem to be a "feminist" film, and Scorsese as anyone will tell you is a guys' director (except for last temptation of Christ, the age of Innocence, Kundun... have I said enough to kill the cliché?). This woman "road movie" is nothing like "Thelma and Louise" but is still a very poignant portrait of a woman trying to put her life back together, but carefull, it's not a women's weepie, it's a strong, nuanced work. Which brings us to "After Hours" (one of the projects that ended MS's walk through the desert, along with Raging Bull), this Cannes festival prized movie reconciled MS with the critics and is one of the strangest movies in his carreer, you'll be surprised. And then, possibly his masterpiece, "Goodfellas", I don't think I need to say anything, the movie speaks for itself: WONDERFUL WONDERFUL and, oh, I forgot, WONDERFUL!!!
The DVD's all have commentaries and all of them have other featurettes on the making of the films, or trailers, and Goodfellas is actually the 2 DVD edition. In a word, u NEED to own this ! |
| Rating | | | Date | November 05, 2004 | | Summary | a REVIEW of DVD EXTRAS | Content
| To all buyers out there I implore you to refrain from purchasing this item. NO, not because of the films themselves, they are incredible masterworks of cinema.However, the EXTRAS ARE AWFUL!! If you are a Scorsese fan, let's face it, you already know a lot of the GENERAL INFO in the commentaries and docos. As reviewed by "Claire Quilty" & "Matthew Slaughter" (Keep it up!!), DO NOT EXPECT enlightening commentary, as per the Criterion Laserdisc audio on Taxi Driver, or the classic Laserdisc release of Raging Bull, with scene specific analysis by Scorsese. Ever since the advent of DVD, SCORSESE HAS BEEN TOO BUSY for specific running film analysis. All he does is general comments in response to an interviewer's questions. The answers are collated, and placed on the Dvds for "extra material". (Worthless to the true Scorsese addict, who yearns for more detail, as Scorsese has shown in past efforts). Further, non scene specific generalist commentaries include "Last Temptation on Criterion Dvd" and "Gangs of NY". |
| Rating | | | Date | October 01, 2004 | | Summary | Scorsese's Warner movies | Content
| A word of caution to any Scorsese fans out there. This compilation, although quite good on its own, only contains the five films that Scorsese made for Warner Brothers. You wouldn't find his other masterpieces such as Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Last Temptation of Christ etc. here.
Nonetheless, this is still a good set. The best movie of the five featured is of course, Goodfellas. The best movie ever made about blue collar mobsters. The first DVD print was a disgrace and the disc itself was a flipper. It was quite a disconcerting disc itself, with no extras and the menu background being the WB logo wallpaper. Extremely lacklustre. Luckily, the good old boys at WB wised up (perhaps after our money too) decided to give this movie the belated treatment it deserved. I must say that the picture looks great this time round. The surround is also magnificiant. With all the great rock classics playing, you could immerse yourself in the era.
As for the movie itself, Ray Liotta plays a real life mobster, Henry Hill, and the movie non-chalently moves and mows down three decades of life within the "organisation". De Niro as Jimmy the Gent, wisely remained as a supporting role, while Liotta's narration drives the story. Joe Pesci is a real gem here. As vulgar as he's psychotic, he embodied the type of loud mouthed, devil-may-care gangster whose actions proves to be his undoing. This movie is a classic on its own. It even outshone The Godfather as the best film of the genre according to some critics' hitlist.
The other four movies are Mean Streets, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Who's That Knocking on my Door and After Hours. Mean Streets had its moments with nostalgic rock music and gritty realism of Little Italy, the world is introduced to a young upstart of an actor in the form of Robert De Niro. Alice is a decent "chick flick". If soap opera and melodrama is your type, then this Scorsese film is just for you. Who's That Knocking on my Door, was an early effort from Scorsese when he was a film student. Mean Streets felt like an unofficial sequel or even an extension to this black and white movie. After Hours is the most quirky and kafkaesque of the lot. It's just Scorsese's exercise into indie filmmaking and experimenting within Cronenberg's terroritory.
All in all, the whole box set has a good price. For five movies, it's a bargain, especially when it has the remastered version of Goodfellas thrown in for effect. |
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