WHAT: GoodFellas (1990, 4K DCP) 30th anniversary screening
WHEN: January 15, 2020 1 PM & 7:30 PM
WHERE: Pickwick Theatre, Park Ridge, IL
WHAT ELSE: Organist Jay Warren performs pre-show music at 7 PM!
HOW MUCH: $12/$10 advance or $8 for the 1 PM matinee. For advance tickets (to the 7:30 PM screening), Click Here!
NOTE: This film is Rated R for violence and language.
Based on Nicholas Pileggi’s best-selling book Wiseguy, GoodFellas (1990) recounts the story of true-life gangster Henry Hill, his associates, and his career as a member of New York’s Lucchese mob. Subjectively-told, the film shows Hill’s rise and fall in the Italian underworld. Co-written and directed by Martin Scorsese and featuring electrifying performances from a standout cast, GoodFellas is widely considered one of the all-time great gangster films and one of Scorsese’s best films.
Following in the wake of Scorsese’s The Irishman (2019), we thought this was the ideal time to present a 30th anniversary screening of this iconic classic of American pop cinema. Unlike Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather films, which were more romantic, operatic (and fictional), GoodFellas is in-you-face, street-level realism based on actual events. It is told with an obsessive intensity– and a penchant for detail– by one of the true masters of cinema. This is virtuosic filmmaking that pushed the boundaries of how stories could be presented. Particularly striking is Scorsese’s use of montage, the marriage between image and music, and the camerawork by Michael Ballhaus. One of the most famous sequences is the steady cam shot where Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) and Karen (Lorraine Bracco) enter the Copacabana nightclub– nearly three minutes without an edit.
Thirty years ago GoodFellas did not play in the main theatre at the Pickwick; we’ll be correcting that on January 15 with a special presentation in the Megatheatre! It’ll be a wild ride, culminating with paranoia, cocaine, and pasta sauce. We suggest you leave the kids at home.
Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Paul Sorvino, director Martin Scorsese, and Joe Pesci (Academy Award Winner for Best Supporting Actor)
