12/18/2023 0 Comments Manhattan grisbiA number of community groups in collaboration with the NYC Parks Department and frequently some measure of government funding, have put together a summer full of films and free summer movies in the parks. J/ Manhattan Neighborhoods / Foreign Films & Movies Manhattan / Manhattan Things To Do / Manhattan Buzz NYC. Some Notes on Pre-code Horror: the end approaches….Manhattan Free Summer Movies in NYC Parks 2023įree Things To Do In Manhattan - Free Films & Summer Movies On the Upper East Side UES, Upper West Side UWS, Midtown, West & East Village, SoHo & Tribeca.Cinema in the time of computer graphics: De Niro’s.The best Sixties musical you’ve never seen - and t.To the super-wired performer he was back in the Eighties and Nineties. He seems at points to not want to be in front of the camera, especially compared Pesci has opted to stay out ofįilm for many years now, and his return here is welcome on a general level, but The gent is a younger, influential gangster. He seems very tired - not only in his character’s old-guy moments but also when Head, to the point where Joe’s noggin looks like a walnut. Theĭe-aging in his case (as with De Niro in some scenes) changes the shape of his Of the two, I’m fascinated by the critical praise lavished on Pesci. One thing isĬertain throughout most of the film: the digital face of De Niro doesn’t lookĪnything like the younger Robert De Niro that we saw in all those films.Īnd yes, the de-aging was used on Pesci and Pacino as well. Made him the spitting image of the latter-day Robert Loggia. (read: older than his current age), his snowy white hair and old-guy demeanor At one point, I thought heįace is so round he looks like W.C. “age” (but not much!) was added to his face, his digital mug looks like his oldĬostar (and Belushi-visiting buddy) Robin Williams. In the “youngest” scenes, hisĭigital face has some of the young Alec Baldwin about it. Who De Niro looks like in any given scene. To deflect one from focusing on how inappropriate (andĮgomaniacal) it was for this digital “erasing” to have been used, one can playĪ little game while watching The Irishman: try to figure out Work in the most scenes with producer Robert De Niro under the direction of Mr. Seemingly been permanently supplanted by Joe Pesci as the “actor allowed to Keitel, the one I wanted to see most, gets the short end of the stick and has ( My in-depth tribute to Becker can be found here.)Ĭast, which is a short list of Scorsese’s most important actors - Harvey One of the nicest inclusions in that regard is the theme from Jacques Becker's Touchez pas au Grisbi (1954), the great masterpiece about aging gangsters, which clocks in at a lean, tough 83 minutes. Place (and then doesn’t move on chronologically - meaning that either theĬharacters are stuck in the Fifties/Sixties, or the filmmaker is). Vintage orchestral music that conjures up the times in which the film takes The soundtrack is aīeautifully arranged melange of unobtrusive music by Robbie Robertson and some Palpable human feeling ( Bringing Out the Dead, Theĭeparted), have been miracles of craftsmanship. All of Scorsese’s films, even those bereft of any There are lovely things to be found in the film.
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