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Nathan Weinbender
Mean Streets (1973)
Scorsese’s breakout feature, a perceptive story of two lifelong friends, played by Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel, who take very different trajectories in New York’s criminal underworld. Its handheld cinematography, fractured editing and rock ’n’ roll soundtrack perfectly capture the grit of 1970s Little Italy.
Scorsese’s breakout feature, a perceptive story of two lifelong friends, played by Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel, who take very different trajectories in New York’s criminal underworld. Its handheld cinematography, fractured editing and rock ’n’ roll soundtrack perfectly capture the grit of 1970s Little Italy.
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