Goodfellas was his La Dolce Vida, he basically poured his entire life up to that point into his previous film, and now was essentially out of ideas. Everything under his watchful eye and careful control. Bright lights, fast money, beautiful women. And directing a Casino seems in many ways linked to directing a movie. The Uber elite.Īnd we follow not just a hustler, or a bookie, or a traditional gangster like any of his other movies.

Starting with Mean Streets, a film about young, lower level mobsters, to Goodfellas, comfortable middle men, and finally Casino, the 1% of the 1%. It was his final 'pure' mob movie, in a trilogy lasting over two decades. Something he already mastered.Īnd that was Casino. And it's still over a year away from before being released.īut a small part of me is worried, especially after learning about its reliance on CGI 'de-aging', that Scorsese is himself trying to capture something he once was.

That is, of course, before the announcement of his new film, which will include both actors as well as Al Pacino and Harvey Keitel.Īnd this is probably the last movie these actors will ever do together, so on that effort alone, much like the new Twin Peaks, it is already quite incredible. It was also his final film with Joe Pesci. In 1995, Scorsese released his last film with Robert De Niro.