Chuck Arnold at the New York Post offers a look back at the classic crime film Goodfellas.
While
filming “GoodFellas” — one of the all-time-great New York movies, in the
gangster genre or otherwise — Ray Liotta had no clue he was making a classic as
he was being directed by a legendary fella: Martin Scorsese.
“During the middle of it, I didn’t know how it was gonna turn out,” said Liotta, 65, who stars as mobster Henry Hill in the real-life story based on Nicholas Pileggi’s 1985 book “Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family.” “It was just a lot of fun playing make-believe with all these other people who loved to play make-believe.”
But 30 years after “GoodFellas” opened on Sept. 19, 1990, it remains an unforgettable experience for the actor. “I don’t know where my keys are right now, but I can remember just about every scene and what happened that day, because a movie like that just had such a big imprint on you,” said the Union, NJ, native.
Indeed, “GoodFellas,” which also stars Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino, was nominated for six Academy Awards. Although it lost to “Dances with Wolves” for Best Picture and Best Director (Scorsese lost to Kevin Costner), Pesci took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, and the movie was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2000, cementing its place in cinema history.
“Martin Scorsese made a masterpiece,” said
Bracco, 65, who was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her
performance as Henry Hill’s wife, Karen. “He made a great film.”
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