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Goodfellas
This is the other end of the Scorsese street, not as comedic as After Hours, but he moves the camera like nobody else, and the documentary-style editing in Goodfellas is incredible. Criminally, I didn’t see Goodfellas in the cinema when it came out, but my sister rented it on VHS and I bumped in her door, saw ten frames of it and thought this was the greatest film I’d ever seen, then immediately rushed to watch it myself.
This is the other end of the Scorsese street, not as comedic as After Hours, but he moves the camera like nobody else, and the documentary-style editing in Goodfellas is incredible. Criminally, I didn’t see Goodfellas in the cinema when it came out, but my sister rented it on VHS and I bumped in her door, saw ten frames of it and thought this was the greatest film I’d ever seen, then immediately rushed to watch it myself.