Taxi Driver (1976)
A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for…
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Taxi Driver
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Taxi Driver (1976) – Review by Charles Michener [Film Comment]
By far his most ambitious film to date technically and in the scope of its references, Taxi Driver shows Scorsese's urgency working at full…
Guilty Pleasures: The Films of Paul Schrader – By Neil Sinyard [Cinema Papers]
Paul Schrader is one of the seminal figures of the contemporary American cinema. His success is attributable to the creative use of his critical…
Taxi Driver (1976) – Review by Michael Dempsey [Film Quarterly]
In Taxi Driver, New York City is a steaming, polluted cesspool and Travis Bickle’s cab a drifting bathysphere from which he can peer at…
Paul Schrader on ‘Taxi Driver’ – Interview by Richard Thompson
TAXI DRIVER’S SCREENWRITER Paul Schrader interviewed by Richard Thompson Richard Thompson is grateful to Jack Shafer for his help with this interview, which took…
Taxi Driver (1976) | Review by Pauline Kael
No other film has ever dramatized urban indifference so powerfully; at first, here, it’s horrifyingly funny, and then just horrifying.
Paul Schrader on Taxi Driver
In this extract from Schrader on Schrader, a collection of interviews and essays, screenwriter Paul Schrader tells Kevin Jackson about the genesis of Travis…