"Mean Streets" (1973) Forty-six years before "The Irishman," director Martin Scorsese put himself on the cinematic map with this penetrating docudrama of Lower Manhattan's Little Italy neighborhood. The cast is brilliant, with Harvey Keitel as the conscience-stricken Scorsese alter ego, and Robert De Niro as the loose cannon Johnny Boy, whose ability to tease and bait the hood's "made men" is the film's brutal engine. With a screenplay co-written by Mardik Martin. Bonus features: Commentary by Martin Scorsese, vintage featurette "Mean Streets Back on the Block."
Tough neighborhood
- by David Lamble
- Tuesday January 7, 2020
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