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starring: Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel, David Carradine, Robert Carradine, Cesare Danova directed by: Scorsese, Martin  List Price: $14.98 Amazon.com's Price: $9.99 You Save: $4.99 (33%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9780790758398 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0790758393 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: August 17, 2004 Running Time: 112 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: October 14, 1973 Sales Rank: 9879 MPN: WARD19127D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: Harvey Keitel plays Charlie, working his way up the ranks of a local mob. Amy Robinson is Teresa, the girlfriend his family deems unsuitable because of her epilepsy. And in the starmaking role that won Best Supporting Actor Awards from the New York and National Society of FIlm Critics, De Niro is Johnny Boy, a small-time gambler in big-time debt to loan sharks. This is a story Martin Scorsese lived, a semi-biographical tale of the first-generation sons and daughters of New York's Little Italy. DVD Features: Audio Commentary:by Martin Scorsese Featurette:"Back on the Block" Theatrical Trailer Amazon.com essential video: After Martin Scorsese went to Hollywood in 1972 to direct the low-budget Boxcar Bertha for B-movie mogul Roger Corman, the young director showed the film to maverick director John Cassavetes and got an instant earful of urgent advice. "It's crap," said Cassavetes in no uncertain terms, "now go out and make something that comes from your heart." Scorsese took the advice and focused his energy on Mean Streets, a riveting contemporary film about low-life gangsters in New York's Little Italy that critic Pauline Kael would later call "a true original, and a triumph of personal filmmaking." Starring Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel in roles that announced their talent to the world, it set the stage for Scorsese's emergence as one of the greatest American filmmakers. Introducing themes and character types that Scorsese would return to in Taxi Driver, GoodFellas, Casino, and other films, the loosely structured story is drawn directly from Scorsese's background in the Italian neighborhoods of New York, and it seethes with the raw vitality of a filmmaker who has found his creative groove. As the irresponsible and reckless Johnny Boy, De Niro offers striking contrast to Keitel's Charlie, who struggles to reconcile gang life with Catholic guilt. More of an episodic portrait than a plot-driven crime story, Mean Streets remains one of Scorsese's most direct and fascinating films--a masterful calling card for a director whose greatness was clearly apparent from that point forward. --Jeff Shannon Average Rating:
 Rating:  - City LifeI have seen this film over and over. It reminds me of my youth growing up in Brooklyn, NY and the characters one meets in his life time. Great film Rating: - "You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets."Orson Welles said that a director's first film was always his best because he would put more into it and hadn't got into bad habits like developing a style yet. Mean Streets may not be Scorsese's first film, but it otherwise bears out Welles' words. Set in New York's Little Italy, Harvey Keitel plays Michael, who exists on the fringes of crime and whose dreams of managing a restaurant his money-lending uncle is about to take over are threatened by his affair with his epileptic cousin (Amy Robinson) ... Read More Rating: - Scorsese's MasterpieceIf Melville's crime films defined cool, then Martin Scorsese's breakthrough Mean Streets became the trademark of his crime films which defined grit. Mean Streets remains Scorsese's most deeply personal and autobiographical film, as well as his masterpiece. The immigrant culture of Little Italy and the atmosphere of New York City, the Catholic themes of sin and redemption, and daily urban life all became recurrent themes throughout his entire oeuvre. Plus, the use of street language, radical and revolutionary ... Read More Rating: - In some ways, Scorsese's bestGoodfellas must be seen by all film students and half the rest of the population, though the violence and MTV-effect soundtrack can be off-putting and create a strange curiosity outside the framework for viewers. Is that curiosity an indicator that we all have that "dark side" - some of us contain it, some don't; some won't. This 1973 movie, with its' modest production values, has some scenes so penetrating, so memorable, that the viewer must rewind constantly to convince him or herself somethimg so "real" ... Read More Rating: - Epic Crime / Gangster Film from 1973This is an American Classic! One of the best films ever on the subject of organized crime. The thing that strikes me most about this film, the thing that really stands out to me is the way it was filmed. Scorsese does an awesome job of letting the audience make up their own judgments against each of the characters. He doesn't push you to either like or dislike any of the characters. The story follows a group of friends through the streets of New York and lets you observe how they come together and drift apart ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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