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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 17, 2004
- Originally Released: 1968
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Zina Bethune | |
Performer: | Harvey Keitel, Anne Collette, Lennard Kuras, Michael Scala, Bill Minkin, Harry Northrup & Harry Northrup | |
Directed by | Martin Scorsese | |
Edited by | Thelma Schoonmaker | |
Written by | Martin Scorsese & Betzi Manoogian | |
Cinematography by | Michael Wadleigh & Richard A. Coll | |
Produced by | Haig Manoogian & Joseph Weill |
Entertainment Reviews:
Martin Scorsese's début feature has just the slightest bit of story line, but the movie is a fascinating portfolio piece: a black-and-white blueprint for "Mean Streets."
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New Yorker
Rating: 2/5 --
Early Scorsese film has rape, nudity, sexism.
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Common Sense Media
A rough yet hyper-sensitive film forever luxuriating in sensation
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CinePassion
...Martin Scorsese's first feature is a truly seminal work....With a very good performance by Zina Bethune...
USA Today
...Scorsese and Keitel have remained true to their first inspirations, maybe because right from the start they were working from what truly obsessed them...
Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 1/4 --
Who's That Knocking at My Door is simply (and finally) unable to wholeheartedly establish itself as more than just a run-of-the-mill, far-from-accomplished student film.
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Reel Film Reviews
In the aggressive self-confidence, the use of rock music, and the perceptive observation, Scorsese reveals an anthropological feel for street life and the attitudes of male adolescence.
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Time Out
Product Description:
Martin Scorsese's powerful drama tells the story of J.R. (Harvey Keitel), a typical Italian-American boy who has grown up in a comfortable middle-class urban environment. But in that same environment he encounters the decisive split between tradition and his Catholic faith, in addition to the realities of modern life. Out of work but not in need of cash, J.R. carouses with his buddies in the bars and social clubs of Little Italy. He draws a hard line between "the broads you bang" and the girls you go out with and marry--nice girls, such as his girlfriend (Zina Bethune). But after she is raped, J.R. finds that he cannot "forgive" her for the crime, nor stop thinking of her as a "whore."
Scorsese's debut feature film, shot in gritty black and white, introduces some of the techniques that he would later apply to his classics MEAN STREETS, TAXI DRIVER, and GOODFELLAS. These include freeze-frames, atypical editing, slow motion, and the use of music to give certain scenes a pulsating rhythm. In making his big-screen debut, Keitel gives a soul-baring performance that is at once passionate and sensitive. Part introspective drama, part docurealism, Scorsese's film is a striking introduction to one of cinema's most worshipped directors.
Scorsese's debut feature film, shot in gritty black and white, introduces some of the techniques that he would later apply to his classics MEAN STREETS, TAXI DRIVER, and GOODFELLAS. These include freeze-frames, atypical editing, slow motion, and the use of music to give certain scenes a pulsating rhythm. In making his big-screen debut, Keitel gives a soul-baring performance that is at once passionate and sensitive. Part introspective drama, part docurealism, Scorsese's film is a striking introduction to one of cinema's most worshipped directors.