TIME/LOCATION CHANGED: Mean Streets (1973) Martin Scorsese @ Regal HARBOUR VIEW
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UPDATE: We will be at Regal Harbour View in Suffolk for the 7:30pm show, not at the Macarthur Center, which is closing.
"like the beginning of Mean Streets / you could be my baby"
RUNTIME: 112 minutes
RATED: R for "strong language, sexual content, nudity, violent images, and drug use"
SYNOPSIS (via Criterion): 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 deals with the debts owed by his dangerously volatile best pal, Johnny Boy (Robert De Niro), and pressure from his headstrong girlfriend, Teresa (Amy Robinson). As their intertwined lives spiral out of control, Scorsese showcases his precocious mastery of film style—evident in everything from his propulsive editing rhythms to the lovingly curated soundtrack—to create an electrifying vision of sin and redemption.
BLURBS:
"Mean Streets is a true original of our period, a triumph of personal filmmaking." - Pauline Kael, The New Yorker
"The movie's blazing energy is still astounding; the vrit street-scenes are terrific and Scorsese's pioneering use of popular music is genuinely thrilling." - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
"No matter how bleak the milieu, no matter how heartbreaking the narrative, some films are so thoroughly, beautifully realized they have a kind of tonic effect that has no relation to the subject matter." - Vincent Canby, New York Times