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Mean Streets

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Directed by Martin Scorsese

A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob. From TMDB

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Mean Streets is a 1973 drama crime film, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and David Proval.

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  • Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 8, 2025

    OUR HERO, BALTHAZAR: I loved this movie, felt it was a real bolt of indie lightning. Stars Jaeden Martell. It made me think of MEAN STREETS.

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  • jamelle @jamellebouie.netBluesky · Dec 2, 2024

    the only one where you can sense real sympathy is MEAN STREETS, but that's because MEAN STREETS is as much a scorsese religious picture as it is a mob film

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 16, 2025

    Zaslav: removes all the WB cartoons the same weekend the new Looney Tunes movie is released. His pet project "The Alto Knights" opens next weekend so maybe he should remove Goodfellas and Mean Streets from Max while he's on a roll

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  • Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 3, 2023

    For The Guardian, I wrote about MEAN STREETS at 50 and how it set a course for a career of dynamic, personal and often hilarious films. www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oc...

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  • 𝓦𝓲𝓵𝓵 @wor-will.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 20, 2026

    Mean Streets (1973) Very personal Movie by Scorsese about the local characters he knew and his Catholic upbringing ‘Dangerous people but there’s love involved’, he later stated It made both him and De Niro respected figures within the Film Community and launched their careers #FilmSky #MovieSky

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  • Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.socialBluesky · May 31, 2026

    I remember when I saw Babylon thinking “when I saw Boogie Nights, Mean Streets was 25 years old. Now Boogie Nights is 25 years old and young filmmakers are emulating this movie”

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  • MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 6, 2026

    NEW from That 70s Movie Podcast: Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets, w/Keitel, De Niro Pauline Kael: "A true original of our period, a triumph of personal filmmaking" open.spotify.com/episode/3fSl... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

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  • Cinema Sleuths @cinemasleuths.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 9, 2024

    Hello bluesky! We are MEAN STREETS, the Film Noir podcast. We investigate the best worst and forgotten movies of film noir each and every week! It’s good to meet you! Follow us wherever you get your podcasts! podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/luk...

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  • MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.socialBluesky · May 13, 2026

    HBD Harvey Keitel!!! MCCT5: 5)Who's That Knocking 4)Death Watch 3)Ulysses Gaze 2)Bad Timing 1)Mean Streets More: Mowe/ @eyeforfilm.bsky.social: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2015... Langmann: www.esquire.com/entertainmen... @broganjmorris.bsky.social / @thequietus.com: thequietus.com/culture/film...

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  • Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 17, 2024

    PERSON OF THE DAY. 17 November 1942. Martin Scorsese was born in New York City, USA. He’s one of the most significant directors in film history. He made a number of classic films with Robert De Niro, including, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Cape Fear, Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Casino, and The Irishman.

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  • MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 17, 2025

    HBD Robert DeNiro!!! MCCT5: 5)Midnight Run (Brest) 4)GF2 (Coppola) 3)Mean Streets 2)Raging Bull 1)Taxi Driver (Scorsese x3) More: @xanbrooks.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma... Vishal Wagh: nofilmschool.com/best-robert-... @jenelleriley.bsky.social: variety.com/2020/film/aw...

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  • Bryan Thomas @munkiman.bsky.socialBluesky · May 13, 2025

    Happy Birthday to actor & producer Harvey Keitel, born on May 13, 1939, in Brooklyn, NYC! Memorable film roles include Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), The Piano (1993), Cop Land (1997), and a personal fave: Bertrand Tavernier's Death Watch (1980).

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  • Reem @rommana.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 8, 2026

    Post a 70s movie that starts with the letter M 🎥 Mean Streets ♥️

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  • BobsterKeaton @superdrogidge.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 23, 2025

    #readandplay (448) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky #FilmSky #Scorcese #MeanStreets The Chips Rubber Biscuit youtu.be/qkGDaroLl_M?...

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  • Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2026

    “It was exotic and dangerous. Martin’s world vibrates with life. Johnny Boy is one of the great creations in contemporary film." — Daniel Day Lewis MEAN STREETS (1973)

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  • MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2026

    10/2/73: Scorsese's Mean Streets w/Keitel, De Niro, Amy Robinson Kael: A triumph of personal film-making From us on That '70s Movie Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/3fSl... More @scotttobias.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oc... Lucy Sante: www.criterion.com/current/post...

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  • David Kuhne @davidkuhne.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 17, 2025

    Watched Cooley High (1975) last night. Great movie. Right there with Mean Streets and American Graffiti. Struck by what a charismatic young actor Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs was.

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  • Rob Tyers @thexclaim6.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 14, 2026

    Watched MEAN STREETS (1973) for the umpteenth time and couldn’t help marvelling at how much it stylistically shaped the next few decades of film and TV, acknowledged or not. And it’s a reminder of just how central Scorsese should be in any modern history of the medium 🤷‍♂️… #filmsky

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  • The Kavernacle @thekavernacle.bsky.socialBluesky · May 29, 2025

    watched Saturday Night Fever for the first time last night. Wasn't expecting it to be a nice companion film to Mean Streets and actually wasn't expecting the tone to be so bleak. But I think that's what makes the dancing work so well. Like John (Tony) Travolta really isn't a great guy

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  • MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 5, 2026

    New From Us on That '70s Movie Podcast: Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets, w/Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro We diverged a bit on this one. I went with "the thrilling introduction of a major new talent - The Scorsese Urtext": open.spotify.com/episode/3fSl... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

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  • Rock @ricosblues.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2026

    Favorite film for each year of the ‘70s, 1970 - LE CERCLE ROUGE 1971 - THE FRENCH CONNECTION 1972 - THE GODFATHER 1973 - MEAN STREETS 1974 - BLACK CHRISTMAS 1975 - JAWS 1976 - TAXI DRIVER 1977 - SUSPIRIA 1978 - DAWN OF THE DEAD 1979 - APOCALYPSE NOW

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  • Sherwin @adynamicmosaic.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 16, 2025

    Potentially hot take?: Mean Streets is a Christian film, and Charlie's character portrays what it means to live as a "monk in this world" as Dostoevsky would say

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  • MidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2025

    10/2/73: Scorsese's Mean Streets w/Keitel, De Niro, Amy Robinson Kael: A triumph of personal film-making More @scotttobias.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/film/2023/oc... @unclecrizzle.bsky.social: www.pastemagazine.com/movies/marti... @cevangelista413.bsky.social: www.slashfilm.com/1572783/dire...

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  • Val 🏳️‍⚧️ @valondar.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2023

    I saw a repetoire screening of a fifty year old Martin Scorsese film yesterday (Mean Streets) and there were people who had never seen it before talking about how much they liked it as they left. Scorsese having a continuing cultural legacy after he's gone feels like a moderately safe bet by now.

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  • tonkord @tonkord.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 9, 2026

    365 films in danger of being forgotten 1. Over 50 years old 2. Not on Sight & Sound's list of 250 best films 3. Not on "my 60 beloved films" 4. Not on my "1 film 100 best directors" 260/365 Martin Scorsese - Mean Streets (1973) #Filmsky #MovieSky #MovieChallenge #FilmChalleng

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  • Schlockluster Video @schlocklustervideo.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 3, 2026

    On October 2, 1973, Mean Streets premiered at the New York Film Festival.

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  • Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2026

    Favorite film for each year of the ‘70s: 1970: Five Easy Pieces 1971: La Région Centrale 1972: Pakeezah 1973: Mean Streets 1974: A Woman Under the Influence 1975: Barry Lyndon 1976: Duelle 1977: Stroszek 1978: Rendezvous d’Anna 1979: The Marriage of Maria Braun

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  • Bryan Thomas @munkiman.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2025

    Happy Birthday to Robert De Niro, born in Manhattan, NYC on August 17, 1943! In addition to acting in over seventy films since Mean Streets (1973) & Taxi Driver (1976), he's been a film director & producer, and co-founded the Tribeca Film Festival, and owns several restaurants. More: alt text

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  • LB Hunktears @hunktears.onlineBluesky · Oct 21, 2023

    I have to say the needle drop of the greatest pop song of all time over the opening credits of MEAN STREETS is such a flex. like ok I guess you're feeling confident that your movie is really great. it's fantastic. what a good movie what good choices

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  • 𝓦𝓲𝓵𝓵 @wor-will.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 27, 2025

    Mean Streets (1973) Very personal Movie by Scorsese which launched both his and De Niro’s Career. #FilmSky #Movies

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  • Eric Stephen @ericstephen.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 15, 2026

    David Proval is in both Mean Streets and UHF, one of history's finest actors

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  • The Kavernacle @thekavernacle.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 17, 2025

    When you watch Mean Streets for example - you're just watching New York. It's really great as a piece of history not just as a movie. That's why I like Mr Robot so much because it was actually filmed all over New York so in 20 years time it's going to also work on the level of showing history

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  • QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2026

    Rewatched Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) & still dig it. Hits different when yer older. Still shocking the violence that the women face. Kinda wild this was Scorsese's movie between Mean Streets & Taxi Driver. Wonder if the 3hr cut had more Burstyn in that piano bar, really loved that part.

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  • 🎃HunkyKarras🎃/♑🇮🇪🇬🇧 @hunkykubrick.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 17, 2025

    #NowWatching #BOTD 🎂🎞️ 83 today! 'Mean Streets'. 1973 (Scorsese) #4K It was Cassavetes who gave Scorsese a creative kick up the ass to make a worthy film ("Marty, you just spent an entire year making a piece of shit." *in reference to 'Boxcar Bertha' "Make something you're passionate about.")

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  • Schlockluster Video @schlocklustervideo.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2025

    On October 2, 1973, the 25th anniversary edition of Mean Streets premiered at the New York Film Festival. Here’s some Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel art!

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  • Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.netBluesky · Sep 4, 2025

    And if you've never seen the film, I'm being deadly serious when I say that it's exactly what you would get if you spliced Mean Streets into Rodan. There's a Scream Factory Blu-ray. Find it. Watch it. It's wonderful.

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  • Colin J Donnelly @cjdonnelly72.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 20, 2025

    Check out this film on MUBI: Mean Streets. The first of the Scorsese/De Niro collaborations. Powerful & gritty. De Niro’s manic Johnny Boy is in stark contrast to Keitel’s much more considered Charlie, whose loyalty to his friend threatens his relationships with everyone else #FilmSky

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  • On This Day - Scala Cinema @otdscalacinema.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 11, 2025

    On this night (11th February) in 1984, the Scala Cinema was showing Straw Dogs, Fingers, The Exterminator and Mean Streets as an all-nighter.

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  • Linda Marric Evans @lindamarric.co.ukBluesky · Nov 17, 2024

    Introduce yourself with One book 📚 - Therese Raquin, Emile Zola One movie 🎥 - Mean Streets, Scorsese One album 💿 - Initials BB, Serge Gainsbourg One TV show 📺 - Six Feet Under One Song 🎶 - Ray of Light, Madonna

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  • JJ @jjdotbiz.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 19, 2026

    In this week's issue of Check Book, I fought off a nasty lingering cold to write about Martin Scorsese's first screenplay credit post-Mean Streets and how Ray Liotta made the perfect introduction to his GoodFellas director at the 1988 Venice Film Festival.

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  • Darrell Clem @darrellclem.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 31, 2026

    Rewatch: MEAN STREETS (1973), a harrowing, gripping crime film that depicts the reckless lives of characters in NYC’s Little Italy. Robert De Niro *is* Johnny Boy, a gambling, flirtatious, unstable danger to himself as he ignores debts he owes to local Mafia. #FilmSky #MovieSky 1/3

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  • Gwynne Ghoulfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 22, 2026

    Decades before I first saw this movie, I saw a clip from it in Mean Streets (De Niro and Keitel hiding out in a movie theater toward the end of that movie). #horrorwatch

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  • metacritic @metacritic.comBluesky · Sep 19, 2025

    The Best-Reviewed Movies of All Time: www.metacritic.com/browse/movie/ #82 - One Battle After Another [*96*]... with the same Metascore as Mean Streets, Gravity, Fantasia, Rosemary's Baby, and Nashville among others.

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  • Dr Luke Deckard | Crime Writer 🕵🏻‍♂️ @lukedeckard.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 26, 2025

    F@cking thrilled to hit a new milestone! If you haven’t yet, and love film noir, go sub to Mean Streets on YouTube and tell your pals about us! 🫡 #filmnoir

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  • Lane Law @lanelaw.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 23, 2024

    Favorite Movie(s) Right This Second. Mean Streets (1973) Your boy came out swingin’. What’s yours? #filmsky #scriptsky #cinema

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  • Jared @bj-slive.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2023

    Lots of great stuff playing at the Hollywood in the coming weeks; Oldboy, Memories, Thelma & Louise, My Winnipeg, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, American Movie, Psycho II, Batman, Tokyo Pop, Showgirls, bunch of Godzilla, Bound, House, Mean Streets

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  • Jon Kenna @jonkenna.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 19, 2026

    After watching Messiah of Evil, I searched out a student film by the same director William Hutch. Down These Mean Streets (1966) creaks loudly and is sometimes unintentionally funny. It's very much put together with spit and sellotape but has flashes of visual flare and a strong atmosphere.

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  • Eric Malcolm @ericmalcolm.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 8, 2026

    Post a 70s movie that starts with the letter M 🎥 Mean Streets (1973)

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  • teamrickandilsa.bsky.social @teamrickandilsa.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 19, 2025

    Checking in for #RagingBull. It’s tough picking Scorsese’s best movie. But this one gets my vote. Rounding out my top 5: Goodfellas, The Last Temptation of Christ, Mean Streets, and Taxi Driver. #TCMParty

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  • Ben Bruce @therealbenbruce.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2025

    Always nice when someone asks your opinion, even nicer when they record it for the world! I talk @rianjohnson.bsky.social's "Brick" with @lukedeckard.bsky.social & @matthewboothauthor.bsky.social for the Mean Streets Podcast. 🎧Spotify: tinyurl.com/MSPodSpotify 🎧Apple: tinyurl.com/MSPodApple

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  • Sean Howe @seanhowe.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 1, 2023

    Filming THE TURNING POINT (William Dieterle, 1952) in Bunker Hill, Los Angeles. #Noirvember Image from Los Angeles's Bunker Hill: Pulp Fiction's Mean Streets and Film Noir's Ground Zero by Jim Dawson

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  • StarlessRedLark @peppermintdiana.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 14, 2026

    If people are saying Jane Schoenbrun should've "waited" to make personal, autobiographical films "like Scorsese", I'd have to point out that the biggest reason Scorsese made Mean Streets was *because* it was a personal film after a cheap exploitation money job he wasn't proud of.

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  • Ian W. Hill @geminicollision.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2026

    Favorite film for each year of the '70s: 70: PERFORMANCE 71: THX-1138 72: CABARET 73: MEAN STREETS 74: THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE 75: TOMMY 76: ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 77: ERASERHEAD 78: DAWN OF THE DEAD 79: APOCALYPSE NOW

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  • Philip Beattie @pbeattie.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 10, 2026

    #MarchMovieChallenge #Moviesky #Filmsky 10. Favourite pop song used in a movie The Rolling Stones - Jumpin’ Jack Flash Mean Streets youtu.be/WZ7UwnfQ2nA?...

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  • The Patric @thepatricisreal.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 31, 2026

    #NowWatching Mean Streets in theaters @RegalMovies Headed back to 1973 to see Martin Scorsese x Harvey Keitel x Robert De Niro classic on the big screen! Part of Regal’s “Back To The Beginning” movie series. #filmsky #promosky

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  • Eric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com @inkskratch.comBluesky · Nov 7, 2025

    Talking about Mortal Kombat got me thinking again about Mean Streets (1989), that ole interactive detective movie made available in VGA

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  • Jack Kost @jackkost.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 14, 2025

    On this day in movie history: Mean Streets directed by Martin Scorsese released October 14, 1973. Cast: Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro, David Proval, Amy Robinson, Richard Romanus, Cesare Danova, George Memmoli, Harry Northup, Martin Scorsese, David Carradine, Jeannie Bell, Robert Carradine. #Noir

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  • The Kavernacle @thekavernacle.bsky.socialBluesky · May 29, 2025

    but he has a few redeeming qualities and dancing is his best. I think this era of NYC film is really good at highlighting the poverty and the aimlessness for the youth. That's why i compare it to Mean Streets. I'd even say it kinda reminds me of American Graffiti (George Lucas film) but like

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  • Rusty Shackleman @rustyshackleman.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 22, 2025

    Also really enjoyed that most of the actors didn't try to do accents. The opening where Keitel as Judas is berating Jesus in his normal accent is like the hardest I've ever been hit by "oh right it's a Martic Scorsese movie, this is Mean Streets of Nazareth"

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  • Samzilla Gaychild @samfloyd1987.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 28, 2025

    Today's afternoon movie is Mean Streets (1973) directed by Martin Scorsese.

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