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Film · 1973 · Crime drama
Mean Streets
Directed by Martin Scorsese
1973
★ 7.3 editorial score
Scorsese found his whole method here at thirty: Little Italy, Catholic guilt, a handheld camera and a jukebox that never stops, most of it shot in Los Angeles.
“Mean Streets, which was shot entirely on its New York locations, unfolds as a series of seemingly casual incidents — barroom encounters, pickups, fights, lovers' quarrels, and small moments of introspection — that only at the end are seen to have been a narrative of furious drive.”
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