Word: niro
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...Bernardo Bertolucci assembled an all-star cast (Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, Burt Lancaster, Stefania Sandrelli) for a history of 20th century Italy that played like a Marxist Gone With the Wind. Now the full version -- all 5 hr. 11 min. -- is premiering in the U.S. Don't miss the grandest folly of a great director...
AWAKENINGS. Actors love to play disadvantaged characters; it brings them big challenges and Oscar nominations. Robert De Niro is fine as a victim of sleeping sickness awakened by neurologist Robin Williams. But Penny Marshall's direction is TV-movie ham-fisted, and the film ends up as a case history of good intentions run to ground...
Visions of Academy Awards may dance in the heads of three ambitious films: The Godfather, Part III; The Bonfire of the Vanities and the Robert De Niro Awakenings...
...Steve Zaillian, to mop up at Oscar- $ nominations time. Any movie about mental disturbance (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rain Man) is likely to touch Academy members, not so much because it treats a serious issue as because it parades the performer's craft. To watch De Niro shrink into the shadow of catatonia is to be made aware of his great gifts of body control, of withdrawing into character, of seeming to be. It's an awesome show that reveals more about De Niro than about the man he is playing. Like the Master Thespian on Saturday...
GOODFELLAS. The fellas -- Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci -- are anything but good in Martin Scorsese's homicidally funny portrait of a Mafia family. They kill, maim and rob; they rat on their friends or slit their throats. This vast fresco of criminal amorality is also a how-to book for making it big and gaudy in New York City...