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Dec 31, 2003 · Martin Scorsese’s “Mean Streets” is not primarily about punk gangsters at all, but about living in a state of sin. For Catholics raised before Vatican II, it has a resonance that it may lack for other audiences.
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Oct 14, 2023 · ‘Mean Streets’ Review: Martin Scorsese Gives Everything You Could Want From a ‘70s Gangster Film. By Samuel Williamson. Published Oct 14, 2023. He might have made two movies before 'Mean...
Mean Streets is a powerful tale of urban sin and guilt that marks Scorsese's arrival as an important cinematic voice and features electrifying performances from Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro.
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- Robert De Niro
- Charlie and Johnny Boy’S Strained Friendship Is Still Relatable
- Scorsese’s Awesome Soundtrack Is Still Great
- The Deeply Personal Portrait of Life in Little Italy Is Engaging
- Sidney Levin’s Razor-Sharp Editing Still Stands Up
- The Pool Hall Fight Is Still Thrilling
- The Themes of Catholic Guilt Are Still Relevant
- The Final Scene Remains Haunting
The central dynamic in Mean Streets is the strained friendship of Charlie, a young gangster played by Harvey Keitel, and Johnny Boy, his reckless friend played by Robert De Niro. Johnny owes money all over town and picks fights with the loan sharks who try to collect his debts. He’s a total liability, and he just keeps making things worse for himse...
Like Quentin Tarantino and Edgar Wright, Martin Scorsese is renowned for his use of needle-drop moments on the soundtrack. A handpicked classic from Scorsese’s prized record collection will provide the perfect accompaniment for a given scene, often juxtaposing a whimsical melody against shockingly violent images. RELATED: 10 Best Uses Of Rolling St...
After having his vision compromised by meddling financiers in his previous movie Boxcar Bertha, Scorsese made his next movie a deeply personal portrait of the life he knows. Like many of Scorsese’s subsequent movies, Mean Streetsis an intimate snapshot of the Italian-American community in New York’s Little Italy neighborhood. A movie that follows t...
From beginning to end, Mean Streets is brilliantly edited. Sidney Levin, the editor of such ‘70s classics as Nashville and The Front, doesn’t waste a second of runtime in Mean Streets. His cuts move seamlessly from one vignette to the next, while structuring the scenes in such a way that the movie holds up as a complete piece. Levin spends just eno...
Midway through Mean Streets, a fight erupts in a pool hall between two gangs. This sequence is still just as thrilling today, thanks to the game efforts of a cast beating each other up and Scorsese’s unparalleled craft behind the camera. From the kinetic energy of the handheld cameras frantically following the action around the room to the juxtapos...
Scorsese’s Catholic upbringing has heavily influenced his work in cinema. He’s made a handful of overtly religious movies, like The Last Temptation of Christ and Silence, but even his non-religious movies tend to have strong religious overtones. Toward the end of The Irishman, Frank Sheeran starts regularly seeing a priest. In Goodfellas, Karen cov...
At the end of Mean Streets, Charlie, Johnny, and Teresa successfully escape from the neighborhood and seem to get a happy ending. And then, a gunman in a car that’s been tailing them (played by a cameo from Martin Scorsesehimself) opens fire, bringing the car to a halt. Charlie and Teresa are left in critical condition, while Johnny’s fate is ambig...
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Martin Scorsese’s “Mean Streets” isn’t so much a gangster movie as a perceptive, sympathetic, finally tragic story about how it is to grow up in a gangster environment.
Mean Streets Reviews. Freeze frames, casual violence and conversation are there in service of a story about two apprentice hoodlums... Full Review | Feb 1, 2024. The violence is frequent and...
Oct 12, 2023 · Mean Streets review – Scorsese’s miraculous early masterpiece is a blistering classic. Rereleased for its 50th anniversary, this ultraviolent urban pastoral remains thrilling, sensual,...
