I would recommend this title through Readers’ Advisory, book clubs, events, etc. to library patrons. My library purchased multiple copies of this book to be added to our collection: CD BOOK, print, eBook, and eAudiobook.

Phenomenal. Even if you've seen GOODFELLAS hundreds of times (as I have, I must confess), MADE MEN offers key insight into one of the best American movies of all time.

Goodfellas is one of the most rewatchable movies in existence. It never gets old. I can pick it up at any scene and immediately fall under its spell. But what Made Men does is give you context to those scenes. It adds another layer to a movie that most people know like the back of their hands. I can't wait to watch it again, now with a little more perspective.

Thanks, I assigned an interview with the author with a freelance writer and ran the story in 11 newspapers and websites in the Southern California News Group including the Orange County Register and Los Angeles Daily News. I include 1 of the 11 links below.

I would advise against diving into this expecting solely an oral history of GoodFellas. While Glenn Kenny provides a comprehensive (too comprehensive, at times--there's a long chapter on the music behind the film that I, admittedly, skimmed), he also delves into other aspects of Martin Scorsese's career and conducts some insightful and entertaining interviews with Scorsese, Thelma Schoonmaker, Barbara De Fina, and others along the way.

If you enjoy Scorsese's work and enjoy works about films, this is worth your time--just, you know, skim the parts that aren't of interest to you.

To me this book felt like a print companion to a film lecture. While it provided some interesting facts about the making of Goodfellas, it also seem padded with a lot of extraneous detail that didn't really add anything. In particular, the rather long chapter on the music used in each section of the film seemed extraneous and overly long. This book may prove interesting for cinephiles and Goodfellas completists, but for this fan of the movie it felt more like a scholarly paper than an interesting read.

As a fan of Goodfellas and many of Scorcese's movies, I enjoyed learning the stories behind some of the most iconic scenes in movie history. I particularly liked the narrative approach of taking the reader scene by scene and learning about some of the more colorful extras.

A fabulous example of critical film criticism that discusses the involved process of making the iconic Scorsese film. A must read for fans of the film and admirers of Scorsese’s filmmaking.