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Mean Streets
Sat, May 14 | 5pm | TMT
Martin Scorsese’s gritty and stylish look at two friends in New York’s Little Italy, inspired by his own experiences, put him on the map as a distinctive new voice in American cinema. Harvey Keitel is Charlie, a devout Catholic who half-heartedly takes part in his family’s life of crime, while Robert De Niro is Johnny Boy, a charismatic live wire who willfully screws up everything he touches.
DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese.
WRITTEN BY: Martin Scorsese, Mardik Martin. CAST: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval, Amy Robinson.
1973. 112 min. USA. Color. English. 35mm.
Do the Right Thing
Sat, May 14 | 7:30pm | TMT
Propelled by Public Enemy’s immortal “Fight the Power,” Spike Lee’s searing panorama of a summer day-in-the-life of a Brooklyn neigh- borhood remains one of his most enduring films, and garnered the filmmaker his first Academy Award nomination for the film’s Original Screenplay. As the temperature rises and tensions build along racial fault lines, a Bed-Stuy neighborhood, graced with striking murals commissioned by production design- er Wynn Thomas, starts coming apart at the seams. More than three decades later the film is as relevant as ever. Boasting an ensemble cast including acting legends Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Samuel L. Jackson, John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Martin Lawrence, Bill Nunn, Supporting Actor Oscar nominee Danny Aiello, Rosie Perez in her film debut, and Lee himself, Do the Right Thing remains a landmark of American cinema.
DIRECTOR: Spike Lee.
WRITTEN BY: Spike Lee.
CAST: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Spike Lee. 1989. 120 min. USA. Color. English. 35mm. New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
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