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The Convenience of Wives: On Goodfellas and Marriage
The first time Karen and Henry meet in Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese’s pivotal 1990 decades-spanning Italian gangster film, it is on a forced double date that precedes a back room meeting, with the sole purpose being so Tommy can “bang this Jewish broad”. Henry is beyond rude and Karen is timid, although timidly pissed as she has every right to be. Notably, she is dressed to the nines (complete with styled hair and a set of pearls) as she will stay for the duration of the film no matter the situation. When Henry stands her up on the second date she immediately requests, nay demands, to be taken to find him in order to ream him out in front of his cohorts. More
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New on Video: ‘Once Upon a Time in America’
Once Upon a Time in America is a gangster film of the highest order, and, at the same time, it recalls so many of its predecessors More
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Video of the Day: ‘Taxi Driver’ Vs. ‘Boogie Nights’
When most people talk about Martin Scorsese’s influence on Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights, the first scene that comes to mind is the opening tracking shot by steadicam operator Andy Shuttleworth – which begins on a crane, moving through a couple dutch rolls and tilts down to the ground, entering a nightclub, tracking the action […] More
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‘American Hustle’ an enjoyable, sprawling mess boosted by an over-the-top ensemble cast
American Hustle Written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell Directed by David O. Russell USA, 2013 Watching American Hustle puts one in mind of the old anecdote relayed by the late Roger Ebert. He wrote of a child prodigy, invited to play an impossibly difficult piece of music on piano for one of […] More
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‘The Art of Steadicam’ is a love letter to tracking shots in cinema and television
Effective shot composition is a key component of filmmaking, sometimes resulting in the only interesting aspect of a bad film, and elevating a good film into a great one. Good cinematography, however, unfortunately goes unnoticed a lot of times, no matter how well it enhances a movie. Larry Wright of Refocused Media, however, has turned […] More
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This past week: Popular articles posted on Sound On Sight
There is so much great content published every week here at Sound On Sight, that even we have trouble keeping up. So, every Sunday, we will drop a list of the best articles delivered by our hard working, and extremely talented staff. **** Sound on Sight 400th Anniversary Recording: ‘Goodfellas’, Video Games Vs. Film and […] More
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400th Anniversary Recording: ‘Goodfellas’, Video Games and Movieland
After a month or so of teasing it, our 400th recording – that’s 350 Sound on Sight episodes and 50 Sordid Cinemas – is finally upon us. We brought in as many of our previous co-hosts as possible for individual talk spots on a miscellany of subjects, from videogame culture to tales from the video […] More
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Video of the day: Top 20 Cinematic Techniques Part 2
Not to long ago we posted a pretty cool video titled Top 20 Cinematic Techniques, made by film student Oscar Feiven. Oscar has followed that montage up with a second video, editing together specific scenes from popular movies to showcase a variety of film techniques set in practice. Enjoy! Films featured: Boogie Nights The […] More
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‘Gangster Squad’ an empty and ultraviolent stab at making ‘L.A. Confidential’ for a new generation
Gangster Squad Directed by Ruben Fleischer Written by Will Beall USA, 2013 At some point, an excess of style only serves to emphasize the hollowness of a story. A director like Martin Scorsese knows how to weave a sprawling tale of vice and amorality while juicing up the proceedings with verve and panache. On the […] More
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Eight Counts of Grand Theft Cinema
We love crime movies. We may go on and on about Scorsese’s ability to incorporate Italian neo-realism techniques into Mean Streets (1973), the place of John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle (1950) in the canon of postwar noir, The Godfather (1972) as a socio-cultural commentary on the distortion of the ideals of the American dream blah […] More
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Sound On Sight’s Best Films Ever Made
With the notion of film canonization once again at issue, we thought it might be an appropriate occasion to check in on our staff’s collective opinion of the greatest films of all time. We had no idea what to expect; our contributors come from all over the world and come from vastly different backgrounds and […] More
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