Casino Martin Scorsese 1995 US (Nth time; DVD) The rise and fall of a high-earning gambler put in charge of a Las Vegas casino by the Mafia. Scorsese, throughout his career, has always had a knack of telling inevitably tragic, somewhat predictable narrative arcs and making them engrossing, mostly by having the right actors in all the right places; we know fine well these characters don't really have anywhere to go but a hole in the desert, but we keep watching anyway, seduced by the director's always-moving camera, a fine soundtrack, and Technicolor which would have Sirk smiling throughout. Nevertheless, it remains a rambling extension--though not expansion--of themes covered in his previous films, a kind of three-hour epic consisting only of surface exposition; the final third tries to inject some character into these anonymous faces, but it is, for the most part, like reading a novel without any dialogue, and thus lacking in life.
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