Casino
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PRESENTED BY CRUMPLER
Overview
A companion piece to Mean Streets and Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese's Casino relocates organised crime within the greater American corporate machine at its glittery heart. In the early 1970s, expert gambler Sam "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro) and his childhood friend Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) are sent by the Chicago mob to run their casino in Las Vegas. It seems like paradise on earth, but Ace's relationship with con-artist Ginger (Sharon Stone) and Nicky's reckless impulse to run side-rackets threatens retribution from the FBI and mob associates alike.
Why You Should See This Film
A sprawling based-on-a-true-story narrative that takes the forms of moral parable and a Western that has only grown in stature over time. Amping up (if that were possible) the paranoia of his previous films, Casino ratchets up tension with a prescient vision of how the casinos and crime of 1970s Las Vegas formed the basis of contemporary surveillance culture. Sprawling and studded with extraordinary performances of slippery characters, this is an underrated mature Scorsese.
Crumpler ‘95
This film plays as part of our Crumpler ‘95 series. Melbourne bag institution Crumpler was born in 1995, a great year for cinema (and bags). They've picked out a selection of films from that auspicious year, all about securing the bag. Heists, scores and the big steal, Wednesdays this Spring at Golden Age Cinema.
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