"For as long as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster. To me that was better than being president of the United States. To be a gangster was to own the world." - Henry Hill in GoodFellas

The 14th Tribeca Film Festival is getting a very New York closing night film: Martin Scorsese's 1990 mob masterpiece, Goodfellas, will be screened on Saturday, April 25, 2015 at the Beacon Theatre.

Based on Nicholas Pileggi's book, Wise Guy, GoodFellas looked at the rise and fall of half-Irish, half-Sicilian mobster Henry Hill—and his rebirth as a government informant. Pileggi adapted the book for the screen, and the film starred Ray Liotta as a handsome, charismatic Hill; an unforgettable Joe Pesci as volatile Tommy DeVito; Robert DeNiro as the wise Jimmy Conway ("Look at me, never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut."); and a fantastic Lorraine Bracco as Hill's beleaguered wife Karen.

The screening will also feature a discussion about the film, with creators and cast members moderated by Jon Stewart, who channels GoodFellas every time he does a wiseguy accent on The Daily Show.

Roger Ebert wrote in a review of the film:

Scorsese is the right director - the only director - for this material. He knows it inside out. The great formative experience of his life was growing up in New York's Little Italy as an outsider who observed everything - an asthmatic kid who couldn't play sports, whose health was too bad to allow him to lead a normal childhood, who was often overlooked, but never missed a thing.

There is a passage early in the film in which young Henry Hill looks out the window of his family's apartment and observes with awe and envy the swagger of the low-level wise guys in the social club across the street, impressed by the fact that they got girls, drove hot cars, had money, that the cops never gave them tickets, that even when their loud parties lasted all night, nobody ever called the police.

That was the life he wanted to lead, the narrator tells us. The memory may come from Hill and may be in Pileggi's book, but the memory also is Scorsese's, and in the 23 years I have known him, we have never had a conversation that did not touch at some point on that central image in his vision of himself - of the kid in the window, watching the neighborhood gangsters.

Scorsese said, "I was so excited to learn that this picture, now 25 years old, would be closing this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Excited and moved. It was an adventure to get it on screen—we wanted to make a movie that was true to Nick Pileggi’s book and to the life of Henry Hill and his friends, which means that we broke some rules and took some risks. So it’s heartening to know that GoodFellas has come to mean so much to so many people. It’s wonderful to see one of your pictures revived and re-seen, but to see it closing Tribeca, a festival of new movies, means the world to me." Also, it's the film that launched a million tracking shots:

DeNiro, who is cofounder of the Tribeca Film Festival, said, "I was most proud of this film 25 years ago, and equally proud of it now. I’m very happy that it is our closing night film."

Tickets go on sale to American Express Card Members on March 23 and then to the public on March 28 via tribecafilm.com. The opening night film is a documentary about Saturday Night Live.