When Academy Award winners Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro reunited on GoodFellas, the result was one of the most powerful crime movies ever. From the true-life best seller by Nicholas Pileggi and backed by a dynamic pop/rock oldies soundtrack, GoodFellas was named 1990’s best film by the New York, Los Angeles and National Society of Film Critics. DeNiro’s Raging Bull co-star Joe Pesci walked off with the Best Supporting Actor Oscar as a too-volatile tough guy. Ray Liotta, Lorraine Bracco, and Paul Sorvino give electrifying performances within an indelible ensemble. Named among the  American Film Institute’s Top-100 American Films, GoodFellas explores the hoodlum underworld like no other movie. 

ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA 

Ten years in planning, Sergio Leone’s epic Once Upon a Time in America portrays 50 years of riveting underworld history and offers rich roles to a remarkable cast. Robert De Niro and James Woods play lifelong Lower East Side pals whose wary partnership unravels in death and mystery. Strong support comes from Tuesday Weld, Joe Pesci, Jennifer Connelly, Elizabeth McGovern and the young actors playing the central characters as ghetto kids. To see this film (offered for the first time in the full version 1984 Cannes Film Festival audiences cheered) is “to be swept away by the assurance and vitality of a great director making his final statement in a medium he adored” (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times). 

HEAT 

When Al Pacino and Robert De Niro Square off, Heat sizzles. Written and directed by Michael Mann, Heat includes dazzling set pieces and a bank heist that USA Today call “the greatest action scene of recent times.” It also offers “the most impressive collection of actors in one movie this year” (Newsweek). Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore and Ashley Judd are among the memorable supporting players in this tale of a brilliant L.A. cop (Pacino) following the trail from a deadly armed robbery to a crew headed by an equally brilliant master thief (De Niro). Heat goes way beyond the expectations of the cops-and-criminals genre - and into the realm of movie masterpiece.