Mean Streets (1973) was one of Martin Scorsese’s first great financial and critical successes after the underwhelming Boxcar Bertha (1972), made on the cheap for producer Roger Corman. A more personal ...

For me, the indelible scene comes earlier, in Mean Streets (1973) and is so embedded in my film memory that I can’t recall when it first inserted itself; it’s always been there. De Niro again, how ...