Cosa Nostra
 

So, a lot of us like Mafia books & movies.


What are your favorite books & movies about the Mafia? Do a top ten list or whatever you feel like, if you feel like doing it; after all, no one has a gun to your head.

ha ha ha!

hm yeah i'd be a good mafioso if i was good at following any kind of order.

but if i could get started as the capo di tutti capi i'd take the job.

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ps not to quote le tigre (hah!!) but i gotta get off the internet at this point in the day.

godfather trilogy
omerta
goodfellas
casino
all the elmore leonard stuff (not strictly mafia, more organised crime in general)
scarface (original)
donnie brasco
angels with dirty faces
white heat



SY gossip should be renamed SY movies

1. the sopranos
2. whatever else

Ha ha ha.
I'm from Italy(home of 'our thing' you tiny things).
The mafia,apparently,started out as a mean to fight all things percieved as state run and the blah blah blah.It went on to spread its ever erratic tentacles(hence the 'La piovra 'tag) to well(hmmm...) adjusted countries making sure that a distorted image of Italy was spread all over the continents.Then came Porkmarras,The Sopranos and things got worse and worse.Literature?Phweee!

insightful, that

Godfather Trilogy, Casino, Scarface, Donnie Brasco, Heat (we'll call it that). I've had The Last Mafioso for years, but I haven't read it yet.

favorite non-fiction: Lucky Luciano: The Man that Organized Crime in America by Hickman Powell.

favorite fiction: The Godfather by Mario Puzo (of course)

Bang!

Oh atari, we could go on for a while but it's bedtime now and i'm on snailband at the moment.I know you are an all american boy and you want your answers but this side of the world it is nearly 2:00 am and i gotta go to work tomorrow morning.I'll kep you posted as usual if you like.

YOU THINK YOU'RE BIG TIME?! YOU'RE GONNA DIE... BIG TIME! HERE COMES THE PAIN!

i forgot about heat, great movie

i like the french ice cream guy

Also in "The Simpsons" Joe Mantanga does the voice of Fat Tony, the head mafia guy, and they are always making fun of "The Godfather 3" on that show, and "Godfather 3" was the only movie in the series he was actually in.

"Bart the Murderer" used to be my hands-down favorite episode of The Simpsons.

It was the episode that introduced William "Fat Tony" Williams (Yeah, Joe Mantegna).

i love the one with the pretzels and the japanese guy in the white suit, "but mom, that guy in the white suit hasn't moved yet, i know he's gonna do something awesome"

Fat Tony : I'm afraid I must insist. You see, my wife, she has been most vocal on the subject of the pretzel monies. "Where's the money? "When are you going to get the money?" "Why aren't you getting the money now?" And so on

joey tight lips is the best mafia character in the simpsons

"joey tight lips did you see which way he went?"

"I ain't sayin nothin'"

The robot mafia in Futurama are even better
Robot: "Donbot, I beg you. I can't make this week's loan payment. Look into your hard drive and open your mercy file!"
Donbot: "File not found!"

Donbot: "Joey, Clamps, hurry up and blindfold 'em before they see us some more."

fuckin' a that was the best. I think I have to go watch that episode now. when Homer tells Fat Tony, "you mean the mob did a favor for me just for me to do a favor for them in return?...for shame...good day...I said good day, sir"

...oh lord.

& johnny tight lips...i ain't sayin' nothin'
(in another) whoa! who said i had a mudda?

priceless!

I hope The Simpsons movie is good. I wonder if I'll cry when it goes off the air even though there are so many great episodes anyway & it isn't what it used to be. I still love the show, though.

I enjoyed WiseGirls (2002).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284655/

At the moment I'm reading The Westies.
Inside New York's irish mob (60's - 80's). By T. J. English
The story of Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone.
The Irish mob were not as organised as the Cosa Nostra but just as
ruthless.

As for films:
Gangs of New York
Good Fellas
Godfather trilogy
Casino
La Piovra (TV serie)
Scarface
Donnie Brasco... etc

haha la piovra.
I remember I watched it with my parents when I was a child...
now there are the re-runs at night on RAIDUE

Rai 3

It's called Octopus in english and you can buy the 3x DVD box set.

I use to watch it with my grandparents in the mid 80's.
They were Italian and got the whole serie sent over on VHS from relatives back home in the "old country".

Do you remember the scene where they do the Sicilian necktie job on one of the capos.
Explicitly brutal torture sequence.

thanks for the posts, Tokolosh !

You're Welcome.

Yeah Mafia shit is hot. I like the deleted scenes from The Godfather as well.
I also like British Gangster films as well Snatch, Lock Stocked & 2 Smoking Barrels, Gangster Number 1 & Layer Cake. I'd like to see films on Japanese mafia (the Yakuza).

Richie's films are great!
The Kray brothers were 2 of the most notorious gangsters in London in the 60's.
The film was pretty bad. The Kray's were played by the Kemp brothers from Spandau Ballet?!... remember?
The book is great though.

mob comedies worth seeing


Midnight Run (not just a comedy, but Dennis Farina is so great in it as is of course De Niro & it's the best role Charles Grodin ever played...it's one of my favorite movies & the only drawback is some of the music)
Broadway Danny Rose
Mad Dog and Glory (Murray/De Niro/Thurman)
The Freshman (Brando parodying his role as Don Vito=priceless cinema)
Some Like It Hot (the AFI ranks this as the #1 comedy of all-time...now that's a laugh)
Johnny Dangerously
Bullets Over Broadway
Prizzi's Honor
Family Business
Crimewave
Analyze This (skip Analyze That)
Suicide Kings
8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
Wise Guys
Married to the Mob
The Whole Nine Yards (skip The Whole Ten Yards)

note that Miller's Crossing is officially deemed a crime thriller & is a very black comedy at best; also noteworthy is that Crimes & Misdemeanors, which isn't wholly a comedy, is based around a mafia/gangland hit; if either one of these movies were included they would top the list. Am I leaving some out? Please add any contributions.

Nice list Atari!
Speeking of mob comedies, what about Bugsy Malone (1976) by Alan Parker.
Great roles by Jodie Foster and Scott Baio.
I love the cake splatters and pedal transport.

Millers crossing is a pretty good film. Forgot that one.

like Prego...it's in there...

Prego sucks by the way.

Thanks again, Tokolosh aka The Lone Bumper.

one of the best

working in the federal court i get the real nonfiction. i've done bail hearings for capos in the gambino family and i did a three-month trial of the rudaj organization, the albanians who actually kicked one of the italian families out of queens. i just did a pretrial conference last week of john gotti jr. never gotten an italian family trial yet though.

Pulled from a website...we all know this scene...

These scenes are interspersed with scenes of Michael's men preparing to murder the heads of the New York crime families. As the music reaches a climax , the priest turns and asks:

Casino
Godfather II
Goodfellas
Soprano's
Scarface
and some more

But seriously, it doesn't get much better than DeNiro and Pacino:D

Word.

I don't think it's wise to advertise that. For your sake.