Mean streets

Mean Street

To continue from last week's short list of all time great indie features, let's take a peak at Mean Streets. It's fitting that we discuss Mean Streets after Faces, as the story goes, John Cassavetes told Scorsese after he made Boxcar Bertha - "You've just spend a year of your life making a piece of shit." He then told Scorsese to make something personal, something you know. This inspired Scorsese to make a film about his own experiences growing up in Little Italy. The budget was around 300K…

Director: Martin Scorsese. Screenplay: Martin Scorsese, Mardik Martin. Starring: Harvey Keitel, Robert DeNiro, David Proval, Richard Romanus, Amy Robinson, Cesare Danova, David Carradine, John Carr…

GOD’S GOT A PIECE Hitting the pavement with Martin Scorsese in Mean Streets ANTHONY MORETTA Harvey Keitel plays Charlie, an Italian-American Catholic living in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. He…

Publicity photograph of Robert De Niro for Mean Streets (1973) from filmmaker Martin Scorsese.

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Mean Streets

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