Mean Streets (1973)
A landmark of American cinema, this original 1973 US One Sheet for Mean Streets captures the raw energy and stylistic innovation of Martin Scorsese’s breakout film. Featuring striking graphic design in bold red and black tones, the poster blends urban iconography with a powerful silhouette of violence and confession—perfectly echoing the film’s gritty themes of loyalty, guilt, and redemption in New York’s Little Italy.
Mean Streets marked the true arrival of Martin Scorsese as a major force in American filmmaking. It introduced audiences to his kinetic style, Catholic guilt motifs, and street-level storytelling—all of which became signatures in later masterpieces like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and Goodfellas. It also launched the long-standing creative partnership between Scorsese and Robert De Niro.
Set against the backdrop of 1970s New York, Mean Streets captured the raw, unpolished realism of the urban experience in a way that few films had before. It reflected the disillusionment of a post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, and helped shape the New Hollywood era—where auteurs had creative control and stories got grittier, more personal, and more political.
This poster, with its bold, stylized silhouette and inner-city skyline, stands as a visual testament to that new wave—minimalist yet potent, just like the film itself.
- Year: 1973
- Nationality: United States
- Condition: Folded-As-Issued
- Type: Original US One Sheet
- Size: 27 X 41 Inches
- Product Code: T6032
