The Film Society of Lincoln Center
70 Lincoln Center Plz
212.875.5600
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Mean Streets
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Dec 26, 2008 – Dec 31, 2008
Daily (schedule)
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- Price
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$11
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Fortunately for our Netflix-aided age, Martin Scorsese's entire unholy oeuvre is ready for our queue-and-view pleasure. But watching Goodfellas on your television is still like looking at the postcard version of a Jeff Wall blow-up: the necessary scale is somewhere else. Only an outsize screen and sound system do justice to the sonic menace in Bernard Herrmann's thrumming Taxi Driver score or the eureka-packed portrayal of '70s Little Italy in Mean Streets, for which Scorsese alchemized Nouvelle Vague's style with his pull-no-punches storytelling. Lincoln Center condenses the director's famed 40-year career into six days of larger-than-LCD-screen personalities, from relentless Jake LaMotta and mobsters in limbo to the elder, immigrant Scorseses.
