Mean Streets (Blu-ray) R
You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets...
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 17, 2012
- Originally Released: 1973
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert De Niro & Harvey Keitel | |
Performer: | David Proval, Amy Robinson, Richard Romanus, Cesare Danova, Victor Argo & George Memmoli | |
Directed by | Martin Scorsese | |
Edited by | Sidney Levin | |
Screenplay by | Martin Scorsese & Mardik Martin | |
Story by | Martin Scorsese | |
Produced by | Jonathan Taplin | |
Director of Photography: | Kent Wakeford |
Entertainment Reviews:
[With] inventive camerawork...[and] inspired use of music....Essential.
Uncut
The acting and editing have such an original, tumultuous force that the picture is completely gripping.
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Chicago Reader
Scorsese is exceptionally good at guiding his largely unknown cast to near-flawless recreations of types. Outstanding in this regard is De Niro.
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Variety
Mean Streets is a movie so rich in content, so teaming with talent both in front of and behind the camera, that the temptation is to go on and on about it. A better idea would be to simply urge you to go see it. It speaks for itself.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Rating: 5/5 --
The Godfather made the mob glamorous. Mean Streets made it real. Martin Scorsese's ferocious, grimy 1973 classic is just as good as Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece, but it shows us criminal life lower down the food chain.
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BBC.com
Scorsese's breakthrough feature fizzes with energy....The director brilliantly unleashes a host of techniques and cinematic references...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The foundation of Scorsese's fascination with gangster cinema is solid, profound and unsettling. [Full review in Spanish].
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Product Description:
Martin Scorsese's electrifying drama tells the story of Charlie (Harvey Keitel), a charming 27-year-old who is supported by his devoutly Catholic mother. He spends his days wandering the streets of New York City and nights hanging out drinking with his good friend Johnny Boy (the terrifyingly brilliant Robert De Niro), a loose cannon that can't seem to escape trouble. Charlie's extreme affability makes him the middle man between his mob-tied uncle Giovanni (Cesare Danova) and various clients, as well as between Johnny Boy and Michael (Richard Romanus), a bookie who has become fed up with Johnny Boy's constant debt dodging. As the city's San Gennaro Festival takes over the streets of Little Italy, Michael seeks revenge on Johnny Boy once and for all.
MEAN STREETS is the film in which Scorsese blossomed into one of the world's most ferociously distinct visionaries, a vision which has, for better or worse, become one of the most mimicked in the history of modern cinema. While his usage of a nostalgic pop music soundtrack, long one-takes and handheld cameras, and brutally realistic performances, spawned a generation of imitators, MEAN STREETS proves that while others may try to imitate, there is only one original. MEAN STREETS is a work of sheer cinematic bravado.
MEAN STREETS is the film in which Scorsese blossomed into one of the world's most ferociously distinct visionaries, a vision which has, for better or worse, become one of the most mimicked in the history of modern cinema. While his usage of a nostalgic pop music soundtrack, long one-takes and handheld cameras, and brutally realistic performances, spawned a generation of imitators, MEAN STREETS proves that while others may try to imitate, there is only one original. MEAN STREETS is a work of sheer cinematic bravado.
Keywords:
Classic
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Organized Crime
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Suspense
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Thriller
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Vengeance
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Betrayal
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Recommended
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Lowlife
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Theatrical Release
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Crime
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Essential Cinema