#Mardik Martin

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THE FILM THAT PUT SCORSESE ON THE PROVERBIAL MAP -- ARRIVED IN NIPPON NEARLY A DECADE LATER.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a rare 1980 movie poster design for 1973's "Mean Streets," the Martin Scorsese crime drama classic w/ Robert De Niro & Harvey Keitel (this was the film's first Japanese theatrical release).

MINI-OVERVIEW: "Celebrated as one of the most original American films of all time, Martin Scorsese’s "Mean Streets" holds a firm place among the best crime films we ever had the pleasure of seeing. It’s not easy to pinpoint what exactly makes it so damn good — whether it’s the memorable Keitel-De Niro on-screen collaboration, master Scorsese’s direction or the screenplay Scorsese wrote with his fellow student and frequent writing partner Mardik Martin — but it hardly matters anyway. It’s definitely one of the cinematic high points of the 70s and, as Ebert put it, "one of the source points of modern movies.""

-- CINEPHILIA & BEYOND, "The Impact of Martin Scorsese's "Mean Streets""

Sources: https://posteritati.com/poster/18521/mean-streets-original-1980-japanese-b2-movie-poster & Cinephilia & Beyond (blog).

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Receiving permission to use the songs in the film cleared up approximately half of the overall movie budget.

This was the first collaboration between Scorsese and De Niro.

A lot of the movie is actually shot in Los Angeles, because the budget was low and they couldn’t afford to shoot all of it in New York.

Scorsese based the character Johhny Boy (De Niro) on his Uncle, who was often in trouble with the law.

Scorsese and Mardik Martin wrote the script as they drove around in Little Italy neighbourhoods.

The scene in which Amy Robinson has a fit took 22 takes to get right.

When it was released (1973) it held the then-record for the most amount of times the word ‘fuck’ was used.

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Raging Bull (1980)

Directed by Martin Scorsese

Cinematography by Michael Chapman

Written by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin

~ might be Scorsese's finest and to think he had to be persuaded by De Niro to make it.

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Robert De Niro in Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese, 1980)

Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto, Theresa Saldano, Mario Gallo, Frank Adonis. Screenplay: Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin, based on a book by Jake LaMotta, Joseph Carter and Peter Savage. Cinematography: Michael Chapman. Film editing: Thelma Schoonmaker.

Lots of people think Raging Bull is a great film. The American Film Institute in 2007 ranked it No. 4 in its list of 100 best American movies, behind Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941), The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972), and Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942). The 2022 Sight and Sound directors' poll of the greatest films of all time placed it at No. 22, in a tie with Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001), Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955), and The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966). It is certainly an accomplished film: Michael Chapman's cinematography uses black and white in ways that hadn't been seen since color came to dominate filmmaking in the 1950s; Scorsese and his editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, accomplish wonders, especially with the fight sequences and the occasional eruptions of violence; the set decoration by Phil Abramson, Frederic C. Weiler, and Carl Biddiscombe evokes the shabby milieu and its changes over the decades convincingly; and the performances of then-unknowns Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarty made them into overnight sensations. And then there's probably Robert De Niro's greatest performance, which won him a best actor Oscar. The film critic Mick LaSalle likes to categorize Oscar acting nominations as either "transformations" or "apotheoses." In the former, actors create new images for themselves, while in the latter, they simply take their existing images and raise them to newly vivid heights. But in Raging Bull De Niro does both: He transforms himself into both the self-destructive young boxer Jake LaMotta and the bloated older LaMotta, living on his long-ago laurels, but he also brings something new and more intense to the existing image of De Niro as a fiercely inward actor. For these reasons, I think, the film makes many lists of the greatest films of all time. So why does it leave me cold? Why, among the Scorsese and De Niro collaborations, do I prefer Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), and Goodfellas (1990)? Is it that Mean Streets is more varied and colorful, Taxi Driver more probing in its exploration of psychosis, and Goodfellas smarter and wittier? Could it be that Raging Bull lacks texture, depth, and humor? Is it that Jake LaMotta is one of the most unsympathetic figures to receive a biopic treatment, or that Scorsese was never able to find a multi-sided personality in the screenplays credited to Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin that were worked over by both Scorsese and De Niro? In another American Film Institute ranking, Raging Bull was proclaimed the best sports movie of all time. But Scorsese has said that he doesn't care for sports in general and boxing in particular, and I think it shows. His movie is about the brutality of boxing, not about the sport that involves both offense and defense, and requires not only a well-honed skill but also intelligence -- or if not that, at least a greatly developed cunning. There is nothing of that in his portrayal of LaMotta. The movie's reputation, therefore, remains something of an enigma to me.

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On November 21th, the @criterioncollection is releasing Mean Street on 4K UHD blu-ray!

DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New 4K digital restoration, approved by director Martin Scorsese and editor Thelma Schoonmaker, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features

Excerpted conversation between Scorsese and filmmaker Richard Linklater from a 2011 Directors Guild of America event

Selected-scene audio commentary featuring Scorsese and actor Amy Robinson

New video essay by author Imogen Sara Smith about the film’s physicality and portrayal of brotherhood

Interview with director of photography Kent Wakeford

Excerpt from the documentary Mardik: Baghdad to Hollywood (2008) featuring Mean Streets cowriter Mardik Martin as well as Scorsese, journalist Peter Biskind, and filmmaker Amy Heckerling

Martin Scorsese: Back on the Block (1973), a promotional video featuring Scorsese on the streets of New York City’s Little Italy neighborhood

Trailer

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

PLUS: An essay by critic Lucy Sante

New cover by Drusilla Adeline/Sister Hyde Design

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“Fighter (Raging Bull) script by Mardik Martin, ca. 1976 Robert De Niro Papers 125.1”

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Mean Streets is a 1973 American crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, co-written by Scorsese and Mardik Martin, and starring Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel. It was produced by Warner Bros.

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Raging Bull - Martin Scorsese (1980)

Poster Design by P A P E R  8.

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SLYTHERIN: "You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it." --Martin Scorsese + Mardik Martin (Mean Streets)

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Mardik Martin, September 16, 1936 – September 11, 2019.

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Valentino (Ken Russell, 1977).

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Movie #39 of 2019: Mean Streets

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RAGING BULL Review - ****

RAGING BULL Review – ****

And though I’m no Olivier,

if he fought Sugar Ray,

he would say that the ring

ain’t the thing,

it’s the play.

So give me a stage

where this bull here can rage,

and though I can fight,

I’d much rather recite;

that’s entertainment.

After 40 years of continuous praise, it’s fair to ask what one can say about Raging Bullthat hasn’t been said already. Rewatching it this time, I found myself appreciating it…

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Mean Streets - Arka Sokaklar

Mean Streets – Arka Sokaklar

Mean Streets – Arka Sokaklar

Gangster filmlerinden kült film olmaz. İsteyen yönetmen, oyuncu hatta sinema yazarı kendisini istediği kadar yırtsın bu eşyanın tabiatına aykırı bir kavramdır. Zira gangsterler yaratmak, umut olmak, yol göstermek, aydınlatmak, yaraları sarmak için yokturlar. Aksine hastalıklı toplumun daha da hastalıklı bireyleri olarak kısa yoldan beleşe konmak için vardırlar. Bunun…

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RIP Mardik Martin 1936-2019

Screenwriter Mardik Martin, who frequently collaborated with Martin Scorsese has died at 82. He wrote several films that Scorsese directed notably Mean Streets and Raging Bull, as well as the treatment for the documentary  The Last Waltz. Tremendous talent!

The link above is the obit from Deadline.