Mean Streets
Made in 27 days on a very modest budget, Mean Streets is arguably Martin Scorsese's first significant film. A hit at the 1973 New York Film Festival, important popular critics like...
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Critical Essay by Richard Combs
If there is one central paradox to Martin Scorsese's movies, it must be their knack for harnessing a single-minded intensity of purpose to an instinct for charg...
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Critical Essay by Jon Landau
Mean Streets, the most original American movie of the year, doesn't just explode—it erupts with volcanic force. It is a shocking, jolting, even pulverizing ...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
Martin Scorsese grew up in New York's Little Italy and has made a film about his home neighborhood. This personal impulse, which would not exactly be hot ne...
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Critical Essay by David Denby
[Mean Streets is certainly] a 'little' New York film …, with no stars and not much variety or glamour in the settings—in some respects the mo...
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In the following excerpt, Pechter qualifies his praise for Mean Streets by stressing what he considers the limitations of improvisational acting and Scorsese's consequent failure to establish a...
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Question 1 of 10:As if in preparation for his crime-orientated acting career, the young
Harvey
had a stint as a what?Police officer
Court stenographer
FBI cadetPrison guardQuestion 2 of 10:
Harv...
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Question 1 of 10:
Foster
wowed critics in 1976 when she starred as a vulnerable street kid in which violent classic?
Raging Bull
Taxi Driver
Mean Streets
After Hours
Question 2 of 10:
Foste...
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Question 1 of 10:In the1950s, the penniless
Duvall
shared a flat with two other wannabe actors:
Gene
Hackman
and who else?
Jack
Nicholson
Dustin
Hoffman
Al
Pacino
Clint
Eastwood
Qu...
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10: Dragnet
The all-time classic cop show which first aired in 1951. Reflecting the conservatism of
Eisenhower
's
America
, it featured evil hippies, saintly detectives and the immortal line: "Ju...
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10: WexfordAh, dependable old Reg Wexford. You'd probably rather have this affable chap turn up on your doorstep than shouty Frost or stroppy Morse. Then again, his very reliability relegates him t...
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Paris Hilton once said: “All you have to do in life is go out with your friends, party hard and look twice as good [as the woman next to you.]” But according to an article in today̵...
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It took 26 years, six directing nominations and two screenplay nominations, but Martin Scorsese finally has his Oscar.Righting one of Hollywood's biggest oversights, the Academy Awards bestowed Mar...
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Mean Streets
Critical Essay by Richard Combs
Bit of Rough: A HarveyKeitel Quiz
