Release Date: 8/14/2007 Original Release: 1976 Format: DVD Length: 114 minutes Rating:R (MPAA) Rating Reason: (Reason unavailable) UPC: 043396174047 Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Dramas, Classic, Psychos, Psychodrama, Suspense, Thriller, Assassination, Recommended, Disturbing, Lowlife, Nightlife, Theatrical Release, New York City, Violence, Essential Cinema
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.
DVD Features
2-Disc Set Collectors Edition Full Frame - 1.33 Widescreen - 1.85 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French Subtitles - English - Closed Captioned Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional Additional Release Material: Behind the Scenes: Making Of Interviews: Martin Scorsese - Director Featurette: 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" Audio Commentary: 1. Paul Schrader - Writer 2. Robert Kolker
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New York City cab driver Travis Bickle constantly, almost obsessively, reflects on the ugly corruption of life around him, and becomes increasingly disturbed over his own loneliness and alienation.... Read the whole review at MatchFlick
Posted on April 27, 2007
Reviewed by: Movie Addict
Comparing the two, I cannot see how this lost to Rocky at the Academy Awards. Scorsese fans will also agree that he deserved a directing award for this film. While De Niro and Foster were fantastic,... Read the whole review at MatchFlick
Taxi Driver Limited Collector's Edition; 2-Disc Set DVD
Posted on April 27, 2007
