Dirty Old New York Taxi

This is one installment of a planned multi-part video project devoted to depictions of New York on film from the late '60s to early '80s--mostly '70s--"Fun City" years from the time of Lindsay to Koch.  Music is Bernard Herrmann's "Thank God for the Rain" from the Taxi Driver soundtrack.  For more of these types of images, check out Dirty Old 1970s New York City.

Hexenkessel

Here's a head-scratcher by way of Germany:

 

Aside from the dead body, which doesn't look like anything that actually appears in Mean Streets, we have the main imagery from the American one-sheet for Once Upon a Time in America essentially lifted wholesale for this German Blu-ray of Mean Streets aka Hexenkessel.  Does Mean Streets ever venture anywhere near Dumbo, or Brooklyn in general, for that matter?  Not that I recall.  The body at the bottom recalls the artwork from Goodfellas.  So, the German cover for Mean Streets evokes two other movies with De Niro, but not the one it is supposed to be representing.

 

US Blu-ray cover

French Blu-ray cover

Things That Only a Lifelong Movie Obsessive Would Document With a Cell Phone Camera

Forgive the lack of focus, if you can...haven't figured that out yet.

Rupert, Marty, Al & Liza

De Niro still hadn't given up the Rupert Pupkin look at this point. The August 1981 date of these photos would be about the time that The King of Comedy was in production. It would take almost 15 years for De Niro and Pacino to appear on screen together in 1995's Heat.