Mean Streets (18)

★★★★★ "Rereleased for its 50th anniversary, Scorsese’s miraculous ultraviolent urban pastoral early masterpiece is a blistering classic which remains thrilling, sensual, dangerous and effortlessly fluent." ~ The Guardian. 

Presented in a new 4K digital restoration for it's 50th anniversary, Martin Scorsese’s electrifying vision of sin and redemption — one of the most influential works of American independent cinema — starring Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro.

Scorsese emerged as a generation-defining filmmaker with this gritty portrait of 1970s New York City.

Set in the insular Little Italy neighbourhood of Scorsese’s youth, Mean Streets follows guilt-ridden small-time ringleader Charlie as he deals with the debts owed by his dangerously volatile best pal, Johnny Boy, and pressure from his headstrong girlfriend, Teresa.

As their intertwined lives spiral out of control, Scorsese showcases his precocious mastery of film style—evident in everything from his propulsive editing rhythms to the lovingly curated soundtrack—to create an electrifying vision of sin and redemption.