In 1995, Las Vegas was no longer about Frankie and his cronies, but about people who wanted too high and died. The cinema year was shaped by “Leaving Las Vegas”, “Showgirls” and Scorsese’s “Casino”, which, because of its recurring partners in crime, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, was wrongly overshadowed by the five-year-older mafia epic “GoodFellas ” stands. Sam “Ace” Rothstein (De Niro) becomes casino king in 1970s Las Vegas and clashes with the FBI. Pesci’s mobster suffers the most horrific execution in a Scorsese film (baseball bat, cornfield), the dreamlike title sequence with an ace floating above the explosion was the final work of the great Saul Bass. (Blu-ray, Universal)
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