Taxi Driver (Blu-ray) R
On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody.
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- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 54 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 5, 2011
- Originally Released: 1976
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd & Jodie Foster | |
Performer: | Peter Boyle, Diahnne Abbott, Victor Argo, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Peter Savage, Ralph S. Singleton & Charles Scorsese | |
Directed by | Martin Scorsese | |
Edited by | Tom Rolf & Melvin Shapiro | |
Screenwriting by | Paul Schrader | |
Composition by | Bernard Herrmann | |
Produced by | Julia Phillips & Michael Phillips | |
Director of Photography: | Michael Chapman |
Memorable Quotes and Dialog:
"You talking to me?"
Major Awards:
Cannes 1976 -
Palme d'Or: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
De Niro ... manages to be as sad as he is frightening. From his general discomfort with others and his feeble attempts at communication, it's possible to recognize the root cause of Travis' inner distress as a terrible longing for approval.
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New York Daily News
Rating: 5/5 --
Martin Scorsese's unflinching plunge into the darkest recesses of the human soul feels painfully relevant.
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Time Out
Rating: 5/5 --
An absolutely nailed-on portrait of solipsism in its purest form, and how, in Travis' case, it takes hold as a lethal cocktail of narcissism, paranoia and gross sociopathy.
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Patrick Nabarro
No other film has ever dramatized urban indifference so powerfully; at first, here, it's horrifyingly funny, and then just horrifying.
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New Yorker
It's a powerful film and a terrific showcase for the versatility of star Robert De Niro.
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Variety
TAXI DRIVER may be very much of its time, but if you're listening, it's still talking to you. -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly
A film of rare power and unique forcefulness.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Product Description:
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.
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