Martin Scorsese & Robert De Niro, Great Friends, Brilliant Collaborators, On Where It All Started As ‘Mean Streets’ Plays Tribeca Festival

Martin Scorsese & Robert De Niro, Great Friends, Brilliant Collaborators, On Where It All Started As ‘Mean Streets’ Plays Tribeca Festival

Robert De Niro feels he’s been extremely “fortunate to wind up with Marty” for all these years, and Martin Scorsese returned the compliment as the actor and director sat down after a screening of Mean Streets, the 1973 film that marked their first collaboration, and Scorsese’s breakout. They went on to make nine more features together. The two grew up together in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, an Italian enclave populated with low level mafiosi.…