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Taxi Driver (1976)

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Reviews Counted: 47 Fresh: 47  Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.8/10

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Rated: 18

Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins

Theatrical Release: 14-07-2006

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese's intense film, a hallmark of 1970s filmmaking, graphically depicts the tragic consequences of urban alienation when a New York City taxi driver goes on a murderous rampage against the pitiable denizens inhabiting the city's underbelly. For psychotic, pistol-packing... Martin Scorsese's intense film, a hallmark of 1970s filmmaking, graphically depicts the tragic consequences of urban alienation when a New York City taxi driver goes on a murderous rampage against the pitiable denizens inhabiting the city's underbelly. For psychotic, pistol-packing Vietnam vet Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), New York City seems like a circle of hell. Driving his cab each night through the bleak Manhattan streets, Bickle observes with fanatical loathing the sleazy lowlifes who comprise most of his fares. By day he haunts the porno theaters of 42nd Street, taking his cues from the violent vision of life portrayed in these movies. As badly as Travis wants to connect with the people around him--including Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), a lovely blonde campaign worker, and Iris (Jodie Foster), a prepubescent prostitute he tries to save--his attempts are thwarted and his pent-up rage grows, turning him into a Mohawk-wearing walking time bomb. Scorcese fills Paul Schrader's screenplay with a tragic realism, brilliantly capturing the muck and grime of New York City. De Niro, playing the fragile hero, steps so deep inside his role that the results are deeply frightening. Bernard Herrmann's haunting score--which turned out to be his last--completes the urban nightmare. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Robert DeNiro, Cybill Shepherd, Jodie Foster, Peter Boyle, Diahnne Abbott

Director: Martin Scorsese
Screenwriter: Paul Schrader
Producer: Julia Phillips, Michael Phillips
Composer: Bernard Herrmann

DVD Info

Release:

Feb 8, 2008

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • 2-Disc Set
  • Widescreen - 1.85

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French
  • Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional
  • Subtitles - English - Closed Captioned

Additional Release Materials:

  • Audio Commentary - 1. Paul Schrader - Writer
  • 2. Robert Kolker
  • Behind the Scenes - Making Of
  • Featurettes - 1. "God's Lonely Man"
  • 2. "Influence and Appreciation"
  • 3. "Taxi Driver Stories"
  • 4. "Travis' New York"
  • 5. "Travis' New York Locations"
  • 6. "Producing Taxi Driver"
  • Interviews - Martin Scorsese - Director

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Martin Scorsese's masterly Taxi Driver both encapsulates and transcends its times.

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02/12/08
Philip French
Observer [UK]
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5/5

If you haven't seen Taxi Driver, your education in film hasn't even begun.

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02/12/08
Richard Luck
Channel 4 Film
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5/5

The blend of Schrader's script, Scorsese's direction and De Niro's performance is both riveting and unnerving. A film that will stay with you forever.

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09/23/06
Empire Magazine
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Is Travis a hero or a monster? The question is never answered to any satisfying degree, and Herrmann's score makes sure of that by always playing up the counterpoint of a scene.

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07/22/06
Shay Casey
FilmFocus
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5/5

What a mad and brilliant film it is: 1,000-degree proof Seventies cinema.

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07/15/06
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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New York may have changed, but Taxi Driver is as powerful and painful as ever.

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02/09/06
Ben Walters
Time Out
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A movie to educate us about life on darker sides of the soul, or steer us away from living that life. It draws us in with a conviction that makes us feel like we're living it.

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07/06/03
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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Get in and take a nightmare ride on perhaps Scorsese's best picture, the story of Vietnam vet Travis Bickle's fight to win the woman of his dreams in the seedy Big Apple.

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03/15/07
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly
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Acclaimed for its gritty realism, but it has an equal amount of cinematic reverie.

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10/09/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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A grimy film that perfectly reflects its grimy subject matter. Travis Bickle [is] one of film's most complex characters. When you talk about super heroes, he truly is one minus the tights and powers.

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09/10/06
Ryan Cracknell
Movie Views
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An utter masterwork of shifting tones and flowering angst.

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06/17/05
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star
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02/07/05
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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Jarring urban psychological drama.

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01/24/05
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
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Martin Scorsese's history-making scald is truly a phenomenon from another day and age. Which is to say, imagine a like-minded film of this decade killing at the box office and getting nommed for Best Picture.

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01/04/05
Michael Atkinson
Village Voice
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05/29/04
Andy Klein
New Times
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A compelling and unsettling film exploring many of the fears, aches and dislocations of contemporary urban life

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01/18/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice
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08/16/03
Rebecca Murray
About.com
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Powerful drama and portrait of insanity.

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07/14/03
Fred Topel
About.com
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Scorcese's first masterpiece.

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06/08/03
Shannon J. Harvey
Sunday Times (Australia)
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You may want to argue with Taxi Driver at the end, and with good reason, but it won't be a waste of time.

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05/20/03
Vincent Canby
New York Times
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