Taxi Driver [Blu-ray]

Director: Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese

Overview

Travis Bickel is a loner who takes a job as a late-shift taxi driver. Consumed by self-loathing, he becomes more and more withdrawn from reality. Unable to carry on a normal relationship with a woman, Bickel becomes obsessed with saving a 12-year-old prostitute who shows no signs of wanting salvation.

Product Details

Release Date:	04/05/2011
UPC:	0043396342101
Original Release:	1976
Rating:	R
Source:	SONY PICTURES
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:54:00
Sales rank:	12,480

Special Features

BD exclusive: interactive script to screen ; Original 1986 commentary with director Martin Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader recorded by the criterion collection ; Commentaries by writer Paul Schrader and by professor Robert Kolker ; Martin Scorsese on Taxi Driver ; Producing Taxi Driver ; God's Lonely Man; Influence and appreciation ; Taxi Driver stories ; Making of documentary ; Travis' New York - the changes of New York from 1975 to today ; Travis' New York locations - we visit the famous locations in New York city 2006 and compare them to the same locations in 1975; Storyboard to film comparisons with Martin Scorsese introduction ; Animated photo galleries

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Robert De Niro	Travis Bickle
Jodie Foster	Iris
Cybill Shepherd	Betsy
Peter Boyle	Wizard
Leonard Harris	Palantine
Harvey Keitel	Sport
Steven Prince	Andy
Albert Brooks	Tom
Martin Scorsese	Passenger
Frank Adu	Angry Black Man
Victor Argo	Melio
Diahnne Abbott	Concession Girl
Gino Ardito	Policeman at Rally
Garth Avery	Iris' Friend
Harry Cohn	Cabby in Bellmore
Copper Cunningham	Hooker in Cab
Brenda Dickson	Soap Opera Woman
Beau Kayser	Soap Opera Man
Harry Fischler	Dispatcher
Nat Grant	Stick-up Man
Richard Higgs	Tall Secret Service Man
Vic Magnotta	Secret Service Photographer,le photographe des services secrets
Bob Maroff	Mafioso
Norman Matlock	Charlie T
Bill Minkin	Tom's Assistant
Murray Moston	Iris' Time Keeper
Harry Northrup	Doughboy
Gene Palma	Street Drummer
Carey Poe	Campaign Worker,Actor
Robin Utt	Campaign Worker
Peter Savage	The John
Robert Shields	Palantine Aide
Ralph Singleton	TV Interviewer
Joe Spinell	Personnel Officer
Maria Turner	Angry Hooker on Street
Debbie Morgan	Girl at Columbus Circle
Harry Northup	Actor
Jason Holt	Actor
Jack Hayes	Conductor
Bernard Herrmann	Composer

Technical Credits

Paul Schrader

Martin Scorsese	Director
Paul Schrader	Screenwriter
Tony Parmelee	Special Effects
Michael Phillips	Producer,Producer
Juliet Taylor	Casting
Rick Alexander	Sound Effects,Sound/Sound Designer
James Fritch	Sound Effects
Sam Gemette	Sound Effects
Phillip M. Goldfarb	Producer,Producer
Tony Parmalee	Special Effects
Sylvia Fay	Casting
Les Lazarowitz	Sound/Sound Designer
Vern Poore	Sound/Sound Designer
Dick Smith	Special Effects

Editorial Reviews

"I'm God's lonely man," says Travis Bickle, played by Robert De Niro in one of his finest and most memorable performances. Travis, the protagonist and focal point of Taxi Driver, is severely out of his element in New York City, though it's hard to imagine where else he would fit in; he goes through life as if the world speaks a dialect unknown to him. He seems incapable of relating to anyone beyond superficial pleasantries or casual violence, and when he does attempt to reach out to others -- to beautiful campaign manager Betsy (Cybil Shepherd), to philosophical cabbie Wizard (Peter Boyle), or to teenage runaway-turned-prostitute Iris (Jodie Foster) -- he runs into a brick wall despite his best intentions, as he can't fully comprehend others and they can't fathom him. Screenwriter Paul Schrader and director Martin Scorsese place this isolated, potentially volatile man in New York City, depicted as a grimly stylized hell on Earth, where noise, filth, directionless rage, and dirty sex (both morally and literally) surround him at all turns. When Travis attempts to transform himself into an avenging angel who will "wash some of the real scum off the street," his murder spree follows a terrible and inevitable logic: he is a bomb built to explode, like the proverbial gun which, when produced in the first act, must go off in the third. While De Niro's masterful performance brings Travis to vivid life, it's Scorsese's dynamic, idiosyncratic visual storytelling (given an invaluable assist by cinematographer Michael Chapman) that provides the perfect narrative context. Capturing New York's underbelly with a palate of reds and yellows that burn with an evil glow, Scorsese fills the story with tiny details and offhand moments that form the fully rounded reality of Travis' fallen world. If De Niro produced one of film's most troubling portraits of a lost soul, Scorsese created a painfully vivid purgatory for him to live in, and, alongside Raging Bull, Taxi Driver marks the finest work of this actor/director team.