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- Mean Streets was filmed from April 1973 to June 1973
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Aug 3, 2022 · However, ‘Mean Streets’ wasn’t just filmed in New York. In fact, most of the interior filming for the movie was undertaken in sound stages in California. The scene wherein Johnny blows up the mailbox was actually filmed in San Pedro. Charlie’s apartment scenes were filmed in an apartment in Hollywood Boulevard.
It comes as something of a surprise to realise that this archetypal picture of Italian-Americans in Little Italy, New York, had only eight days filming in the Big Apple (and that was stretched from a budgeted four days). And much of that was filmed in Belmont, the Italian community in the Bronx, standing in for the much-changed Manhattan locale.
Mean Streets is a 1973 American crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, co-written by Scorsese and Mardik Martin, and starring Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel. It was produced by Warner Bros. The film premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 2, 1973, and was released on October 14. [3]
- $500,000
- Jonathan T. Taplin
- October 14, 1973
Aug 17, 2023 · New York City soon became an increasingly popular location for New Hollywood directors. Films like Midnight Cowboy (Schlesinger, 1969) and Klute (Pakula, 1971) used the real city streets to represent the disillusionment of New York’s population in a decade that saw widespread rioting and social upheaval.
Mean Streets. Martin Scorsese emerged as a generation-defining filmmaker with this gritty portrait of 1970s New York City, one of the most influential works of American independent cinema. Set in the insular Little Italy neighborhood of Scorsese’s youth, Mean Streets follows guilt-ridden small-time ringleader Charlie (Harvey Keitel) as he ...
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Oct 30, 2023 · Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets, released in October 1973, is regarded as a classic crime drama, depicting a New York City neighborhood teeming with dead-end types and some wiseguys. The movie was the first collaboration between Scorsese and actor Robert De Niro.
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. Its characters (like Scorsese himself) have grown up in New York’s Little Italy, and they understand everything about that small slice of human society except how to survive in it.
