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“THE PROPHETIC MASTERPIECE OF THE 1970s. Brilliantly acted and rhapsodically beautiful. De Niro’s finest performance. TAXI DRIVER will last forever!” – Janet Maslin, NY Times “A double-chambered story of immense power. This is what American films should always be like.” – Time Out “Scorsese’s masterpiece. The most memorable, the most significant, and certainly the most disturbing film of 1976--and years to follow. One mesmerizing shot after another. It amazes to see so much genius in one vehicle.” – New York Post "Some day a real rain will come and wipe the scum off the streets."

(1976) Few movies have depicted the low life stench of Manhattan with the power of Taxi Driver. Shot during a sweltering New York summer, Scorsese’s contribution to the Bicentennial is the final word on Big Apple paranoia and short circuit energy. De Niro's Travis Bickle is the insomniac hack who yearns for a rain that’ll “wash all the scum off the streets.” Blowing his big date at a 42nd Street pornhouse with Cybill Shepherd, he transforms himself into a mohawked, armed-to-the-teeth avenging angel, and meets his own judgment day in the form of child hooker Jodie Foster and her pimp Harvey Keitel. Twenty-eight years later, Taxi Driver has lost none of its hallucinatory power, and in the bargain evokes a New York gone by: a world of dial telephones and Kris Kristofferson LPs, Checker cabs, and vanished landmarks like the Belmore Cafeteria - all stunningly shot in color by Michael Chapman. Featuring the last great score by Bernard Herrmann, who died the day after finishing it. With Scorsese himself in a memorable cameo as a hopped-up cuckold and Steven Prince, subject of Scorsese’s 1978 doc American Boy (playing at Film Forum Jan. 21-27), as hyperactive one-stop gun/drugs/Cadillac salesman “Easy Andy.” Dolby SR

A Sony Pictures Repertory Release

• Top 100 Movie Lists - Taxi Driver
• Movie-a-day.com
• A Great TAXI DRIVER Site, with Sound Clips too
• Tribute Page
• Directory site with information and multimedia content.
• www.zelluloid.de
• Jeff's Taxi Page.
• Taxi Driver sounds in mp3, RealPlayer, & wav format

Scorsese on Scorsese by Martin Scorsese, David Thompson (Editor), Ian Christie (Editor), Michael Powell

Taxi Driver (Bfi Film Classics) by Amy Taubin

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