Film Forum

U.S., 1973
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Written by Martin Scorsese, Mardik Martin
Starring Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval, Amy Robinson
Approx. 112 min. 

Guilt-ridden hood Harvey Keitel keeps a low profile, but out-of-his friggin’-mind cousin Robert De Niro doesn’t give a flyin’ pasta fazool about those gambling debts.

Shown with Les Rues de Mean Streets (2010, Bruce Goldstein), a tour of Marty’s old nabe (made for French distributor Carlotta Films). Approx. 6 min.

Reviews

“Scorsese directs with a breathless, head-on energy which infuses the performances, the sharp fast talk, the noise, neon and violence with a charge of adrenalin. One of the best American films of the decade.”
– Time Out

“No matter how bleak the milieu, no matter how heartbreaking the narrative, some films are so thoroughly, beautifully realized they have a kind of tonic effect that has no relation to the subject matter.”
– Vincent Canby, The New York Times

“A true original, and a triumph of personal filmmaking. This picture about the experience of growing up in New York’s Little Italy has an unsettling, episodic rhythm and it’s dizzyingly sensual. Scorsese, shows us a thicker-textured rot than we have ever had in an American movie, and a riper sense of evil.”
– Pauline Kael