Martin Scorsese has described the 80s as the worst decade for him personally. With his highly-acclaimed Goodfellas arriving at the start of the 90s there’s part of it that feels like he may have been looking back at the previous decade, and beyond. From the tumultuous production of New York, New York to the long journey to his passion project The Last Temptation Of Christ. I look at Scorsese’s cool, confident, fast-paced possible reflection on this in my introduction for Goodfellas.
The audio in the video below was recorded specially and read from the rough introduction that I had written before the screening, held on Monday 22nd June 2026 at The Little Theatre in Bath, shown as part of Picturehouse’s year-long Scorsese season.
If you don’t own a physical copy of the film, you can find where you can watch Goodfellas here.
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