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By Lee Pfeiffer
We recently reported on the trials and tribulations everyone associated with “Gotti” experienced over the seven years expended in attempting to bring the biopic to the big screen (the film has more producers credited than the entire population of Lichtenstein.) . When the film did open, it earned the rare distinction of being unanimously panned by the critics surveyed on Rotten Tomatoes. So, I guess I’m out there on my own when I say I found the film to be quite satisfying on any number of levels. Mind you, I’m also a defender of Michael Cimino’s “Heaven’s Gate”, so you should take that into consideration. To read the reviews of this troubled production, one would think it was genuinely awful. It isn’t. In fact, there is much to recommend here, not the least of which is...
By Lee Pfeiffer
We recently reported on the trials and tribulations everyone associated with “Gotti” experienced over the seven years expended in attempting to bring the biopic to the big screen (the film has more producers credited than the entire population of Lichtenstein.) . When the film did open, it earned the rare distinction of being unanimously panned by the critics surveyed on Rotten Tomatoes. So, I guess I’m out there on my own when I say I found the film to be quite satisfying on any number of levels. Mind you, I’m also a defender of Michael Cimino’s “Heaven’s Gate”, so you should take that into consideration. To read the reviews of this troubled production, one would think it was genuinely awful. It isn’t. In fact, there is much to recommend here, not the least of which is...
- 6/25/2018
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Six years and two title changes after the project was announced, John Travolta will finally star as the titular Gambino family Mafioso in “Gotti.” Good Morning America debuted the film’s first trailer on Sept. 26, depicting the allegedly Gotti-ordered hit on his predecessor, Paul Castellano (Donald John Volpenhein), followed by his own demise from “The Teflon Don”—gleaming pompadour, designer suits—to a bald, craggy-faced inmate. Gotti died serving a murder sentence in 2002 at age 61; the cause was throat cancer. One of his sons, John Gotti Jr., helped advise director Kevin Connolly, and even provided Travolta with his father’s jewelry and ties to get into character.
Making “Gotti” was an unusual family bonding exercise for Travolta, who was last an Oscar nominee as “Pulp Fiction” hitman Vincent Vega: his real life wife (Kelly Preston) and daughter (Ella Bleu Travolta) play his relatives onscreen. On the steps of a courthouse,...
Making “Gotti” was an unusual family bonding exercise for Travolta, who was last an Oscar nominee as “Pulp Fiction” hitman Vincent Vega: his real life wife (Kelly Preston) and daughter (Ella Bleu Travolta) play his relatives onscreen. On the steps of a courthouse,...
- 9/26/2017
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
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