Like his fellow filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, Scorsese traffics in filmic intolerance.
The real Frank Sheeran was quite tall and fat. A quibble, but I wish they could have fit Chazz Palminteri into the cast.
This film, opening this week, seeks to put Rhode Island on the map, at least when ti comes to gangsters and bank heists. If you’re a fan of heist films, I’ve got a trailer here for you to watch for an upcoming movie called Vault, which is set in the 1970s. Alas, there isn’t much fresh air to be had in “ For Scorsese has achieved great fame — and a tidy fortune — perpetuating vile ethnic caricatures. The de-aging worked pretty well. Alas, the execution here, while fine, never makes an effective case for its own existence. The film is a crime tale, based on a true story. Chazz Palminteri on IMDb: Movies, Tv, Celebrities, and more... Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events And 20 years ago, Clyde Haberman underscored this sad reality: "Among major ethnic groups that have formed the country’s social bedrock for at least a century, Americans of Italian origin may be the last to see themselves reflected in mass culture, time and again, as nothing but a collection of losers and thugs.” From Galileo Galilei’s scientific method to Filippo Mazzei’s dictum that “all men are created equal” to Brunelleschi’s reinvention of architecture to Enrico Fermi’s atomic energy, Italians have been at the forefront of human progress. And as Beatrice Loayza noted in The Guardian, Scorsese’s films are hardly “gender progressive.” Indeed, the women in his movies “are too often caught in the crosshairs of the world of men, whether as victims or cunning culprits, as jezebels or slaves to love.” Chances are, Scorsese isn’t likely to exalt Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi; or Dr. Mariana Mazzucato, the cutting-edge economist who has authored: “The Entrepreneurial State” and “The Value of Everything;” or Dr. Carolyn Porco, the planetary scientist who was named one of the 25 most influential people in space by Time magazine in 2012.
Looked and sounded great.Looks like only 18% of Irishman viewers finish it in the first sitting:I really enjoyed this film. One real-life mobster Palminteri played was Gotti victim Paul Castellano, who, like Chazz, was tall and (relatively) thin. Taking place in 1975, it’s a depiction of what would become one of the biggest heists in American history. Domenick Lombardozzi. r/Mafia: /r/Mafia features stories, interviews, documentary and news articles about organized crime around the world. One problem with that is that it seems pretty much every wiseguy in the Hoffa/ Bufalino orbit was short or fat (or both). - The Irishman NY Tastemaker The tiny state isn’t a hallmark for cinematic settings, but Vault is the exception to that rule. It’s official: Bumpy Johnson will return to the streets of Harlem once again. It wasn’t wise to borrow money from local mobster Tony Davolio ( There’s not much new ground covered in Jon Abrahams’ amiable “ Contrary to the gushing encomiums of star-struck film critics, "The Irishman" is offal the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences must refuse. “It’s the American Dream by any means necessary,” proclaims Academy Award winner
Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. Scorsese and his ilk have equated the real-world saga of Italian immigration with the mafia mythos — ignoring the mass lynchings, internments and widespread discrimination endured by the scions of Italy in their trek to America. Writing some three decades ago, Alexander Cockburn decried "the childish mumbo jumbo about blood oaths, Sicilian brotherhoods and the like" that permeated the media, the courts and law enforcement officials steeped in cinematic mafia lore. Photo by Arturo Holmes/Getty Images. Calogero Lorenzo "Chazz" Palminteri (born May 15, 1952) is an American actor, screenwriter, producer and playwright. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Depicting Italian Americans as a congenitally violent underclass has morphed into a billion-dollar industry.