With Killers of the Flower Moon arriving this month, we look back at the film that put Martin Scorsese on the map
It’s easy to misremember Mean Streets, released 50 years ago this month, as Martin Scorsese’s first film. In fact, it’s his third. There’s no doubting though that it’s the film when he truly arrived. One scene in particular, just 12 minutes in, is the perfect expression of this arrival – a sensory assault that displays many of the Scorsese hallmarks we would come to venerate over the following five decades.
Mick Jagger’s vocals tell us everything we need to know about who this guy is. The blood red filter, and distorted dialogue, leave no further doubt that trouble is on its way.When films like Trainspotting and Pulp Fiction used music in this way in the Nineties it felt completely fresh. In fact, Scorsese had beaten them to it by two decades. Many Scorsese favourites from slow-mos to jump cuts are on show for the first time here.
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