Example sentences for: goodfellas

How can you use “goodfellas” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • For the entire school year, imagine: no campus Scorsese retrospectives ( Taxi Driver and Goodfellas were on the list); no Joan Crawford or Billy Wilder series ( Mildred Pierce , Some Like It Hot ); etc.

  • Using only the simplest cinematic means, Boorman achieves what Martin Scorsese needed whip-pans and zoom lenses and a cacophonous sound mix to do at the climax of GoodFellas (1990): He gives you the jittery and suffocating sense of the universe closing in.

  • Beautifully acted, beautifully scored, and most beautifully shot, it gives a self-conscious nod to mob-movie romanticism without gutting the myth a la Scorsese's 1990 gangster hit, Goodfellas . (It also provides the best role Gabriel Byrne is ever likely to get: half Richard Burton, half Al Pacino)

  • ( GoodFellas was a jaunty laugh-fest for its first two-thirds, but that was just Scorsese's setup for disaster.)

  • Some of them are named after mobsters: Gambino Family, Goodfellas, Li'l Gotti.


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