Robert De Niro Martin Scorsese Mean Streets

Wakeford a cinematographer who served as martin scorsese s director of photography on the groundbreaking 1973 film mean streets and the following year s alice doesn t live here anymore died oct.

Robert de niro martin scorsese mean streets. In 1973 de niro had been praised for his role in bang the drum slowly while scorsese had been working as an editor on the movie woodstock the same year scorsese and de niro collaborated for the first time on the gangster film mean streets scorsese had been taught that entertaining films can be shot with little money by roger corman who had helped prepare scorsese for the difficulties of. Mean streets 1973 this little italy set ode to federico fellini s i vitelloni 1953 was the first collaboration between de niro and scorsese and what a way to kick things off. His collaboration with scorsese began with the 1973 classic mean streets which starred harvey keitel and robert de niro and had wakefield serving as the cinematographer. Mean streets is a 1973 american crime film directed by martin scorsese and co written by scorsese and mardik martin the film stars harvey keitel and robert de niro it was released by warner bros.

With robert de niro harvey keitel david proval amy robinson. In 1997 mean streets was selected for preservation in the. On october 2 1973. Mean streets 1973 directed by martin scorsese.

So then they see king of comedy maybe it was the wrong audience. In mean streets the third feature directed by martin scorsese that s newly available to stream on netflix one of the central locations is a bar in what used to be manhattan s little italy. A small time hood tries to keep the peace between his friend johnny and johnny s creditors. 10 at the motion picture film television fund s wasserman campus in woodland hills.

At the same time that mean streets was helping to establish his name as well as martin scorsese s de niro was also in this male weepie about a baseball catcher and a star pitcher michael moriarty who form a friendship after the catcher comes down with a terminal illness. De niro won the national society of film critics award for best supporting actor for his role as johnny boy civello.