Mean Streets

Mean Streets was Martin Scorsese''s third feature film, and the one that confirmed him as a major new talent. On its premiere at the New York Film Festival in 1973, the critic Pauline Kael hailed the film as ''a true original of our period, a triumph of personal film-making''. The tale of combative friends and small-time crooks is set amid the bars, pool halls, tenements and streets of Manhattan''...