"Taxi Driver" shouldn't be taken as a New York film; it's not about a city but about the weathers of a man's soul, and out of all New York he selects just those elements that feed and reinforce his obsessions. The man is Travis Bickle, ex-Marine, veteran of Vietnam, composer of dutiful anniversary notes to his parents, taxi driver, killer. The movie rarely strays very far from the personal ...
Taxi Driver movie review & film summary (1976)
It is a widely known item of cinematic lore that Paul Schrader's screenplay for "Taxi Driver" was inspired by " The Searchers ," John Ford's 1956 film. In both films, the heroes grow obsessed with "rescuing" women who may not, in fact, want to be rescued. They are like the proverbial Boy Scout who helps the little old lady across the street ...
Taxi Driver: 20th Anniversary Edition movie review (1996)
It is a widely known item of cinematic lore that Paul Schrader's screenplay for "Taxi Driver" was inspired by " The Searchers ," John Ford's 1956 film. In both films, the heroes grow obsessed with "rescuing" women who may not, in fact, want to be rescued. They are like the proverbial Boy Scout who helps the little old lady across the street ...
Taxi Driver
Taxi Driver is a 1976 American neo-noir psychological drama film [6] [7] ... according to Roger Ebert. Both films focus on a solitary war veteran who tries to save a young girl who is resistant to his efforts. ... Time Out magazine conducted a poll of the 100 greatest movies set in New York City. Taxi Driver topped the list, placing at No. 1. [65]
Taxi Driver
Oct 6, 2023. Page 1 of 4, 7 total items. *Taxi Driver* is an iconic cinematic journey that dives into the gritty underbelly of 1970s New York City. Directed by Martin Scorsese, this film paints a ...
How Taxi Driver Forever Changed The Way I View Movies
It's like what Roger Ebert said in his review of the film: "Scorsese wanted to look away from Travis's rejection; we almost want to look away from his life. But he's there, all right, and he's suffering." With "Taxi Driver," I came to see how you need these kinds of movies just as much as you need the average escapist entertainment.
Taxi Driver (1976)
Furthermore, Taxi Driver topped the list of the "100 greatest movies set in New York City" a poll conducted by Timeout Magazine earlier this year. Flashback 1976: Taxi Driver. "Cabbin ...
God's Lonely Man: Taxi Driver and the Onslaught of Modernity
The late film critic Roger Ebert wrote that Taxi Driver could be viewed as a series of failed attempts to connect with others, but the problem reaches far deeper than this. Without an understanding of who we are and what we are doing on this planet, connecting with others becomes a near impossibility.
r/movies on Reddit: I just watch "Taxi Driver" for the first time
Many of my favorite films (favorite for subjectivie enjoyment) Ebert gave a "meh" rating to, and some he loved I didn't particularly enjoy. But his reviews were, objectively, spot-on, and I checked his reviews habitually before seeing a movie. Point is, I don't care for Taxi Driver either, but appreciate what makes it "a great film."
The Untold Truth Of Taxi Driver
The script is gritty, raw, and uncompromising and surprisingly comes from the mind of a strict Calvinist who didn't see a movie until he turned 18 (via Roger Ebert). Born and bred in Grand Rapids ...
From the nostalgia file: "Taxi Driver"
The film is a slow Sunday drive into the maw of hell. It is largely a hell of Travis' own perceptions, though. A few critics at the time questioned the credibility of the film's portrait of New York as one big open sore; National Review critic John Simon even mocked Travis' voice-over assertion that every night when he brings the cab back to the cabstand, he has to clean ejaculate and blood ...
Taxi Driver (1976)
Metacritic reviews. Taxi Driver. 94. ... Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert. Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert. A brilliant nightmare and like all nightmares it doesn't tell us half of what we want to know. 100. ... Its deeply anarchic sensibility has kept Taxi Driver fresh all these years. [20th Anniversary Release] 100.
Taxi Driver' review by Roger Ebert Jr. • Letterboxd
Taxi Driver. 1976. ★★★★★. Watched Nov 22 , 2019. Roger Ebert Jr.'s review published on Letterboxd: This is a masterpiece. I could talk about how great the use of the score is, but it's already been talked about before. I could go on about the brilliant cinematography and the great central performance, but somebody has already ...
Film Forum · TAXI DRIVER
TAXI DRIVER Friday, December 13 9:30 Directed by Martin Scorsese Starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster and Harvey Keitel (1976) "You talkin' to me?" Robert De Niro's insomniac cabbie Travis Bickle, amid his nocturnal 12-hour shifts, yearns in moody voice-over for a rain that'll "wash all the scum off the streets", while he ferries presidential candidate Leonard Harris (then ...
Taxi Driver (1976) Starring: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert
Movie Review Taxi Driver On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody. US Release Date: 02-08-1976. Directed by: Martin Scorsese. Starring ▸ ▾ ... I agree with Roger Ebert. The ending is a complete and utter fantasy of Bickle's, even if Martin Scorsese may suggest otherwise to open the possibility ...
10 of Roger Ebert's Favorite Movies of All Time
Roger Ebert's review of Taxi Driver written in 2004 suggests that the film's overall focus on loneliness is what draws so many to it time and time again. The central message portrayed by the main ...
A Taxi Driver movie review & film summary (2017)
Song's performance makes me wish the rest of "A Taxi Driver" was as thoughtful. Advertisement. Song plays Sa-bok Kim, a penny-pinching widower and the oblivious father of pre-teen Eun-sung (Eun-mi Yoo). Sa-bok's story is, as realized in the film, fairly trite. He learns to become a better, more politically conscious man after he chauffeurs ...
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A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action. ... (Roger Ebert) REVIEW [20th Anniversary Edition] RogerEbert.com (Roger Ebert) REVIEW ... rec.arts.movies.reviews (Dragan Antulov) RETROSPECTIVE [9/10] Apollo Guide (Dan Jardine) ...
Help me understand 1976's Taxi Driver : r/movies
Don't know if this has been mentioned, but Roger Ebert in his review, speculated that the ending is taking place in Travis' head as he lies dying. I'd agree that in that context the ending makes more sense, than to interpret it as a literal event. ... Taxi Driver (1976) Movie Review; A Taxi Driver Review; Odd Taxi Plot Discussion; Top Posts ...
Taxi movie review & film summary (2004)
Directed by. Tim Story. As the movie opens, Latifah plays a bicycle messenger who races through Macy's, rattles down the steps of the subway, zips through a train to the opposite platform, goes up a ramp, bounces off the back of a moving truck, lands on the sidewalk, jumps off a bridge onto the top of another truck, and so on.
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'Taxi Driver' Movie Review by Roger Ebert : r/MartinScorsese
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Daddio movie review & film summary (2024)
Daddio. Dialogue can lie, but faces tell the truth. Stories are told through faces. It takes enormous trust on the part of a director to allow this to happen, to let the faces do most of the heavy lifting. "Daddio", written and directed by Christy Hall, is a film about faces, and this is pretty extraordinary considering it's a two-character ...
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"Taxi Driver" shouldn't be taken as a New York film; it's not about a city but about the weathers of a man's soul, and out of all New York he selects just those elements that feed and reinforce his obsessions. The man is Travis Bickle, ex-Marine, veteran of Vietnam, composer of dutiful anniversary notes to his parents, taxi driver, killer. The movie rarely strays very far from the personal ...
It is a widely known item of cinematic lore that Paul Schrader's screenplay for "Taxi Driver" was inspired by " The Searchers ," John Ford's 1956 film. In both films, the heroes grow obsessed with "rescuing" women who may not, in fact, want to be rescued. They are like the proverbial Boy Scout who helps the little old lady across the street ...
It is a widely known item of cinematic lore that Paul Schrader's screenplay for "Taxi Driver" was inspired by " The Searchers ," John Ford's 1956 film. In both films, the heroes grow obsessed with "rescuing" women who may not, in fact, want to be rescued. They are like the proverbial Boy Scout who helps the little old lady across the street ...
Taxi Driver is a 1976 American neo-noir psychological drama film [6] [7] ... according to Roger Ebert. Both films focus on a solitary war veteran who tries to save a young girl who is resistant to his efforts. ... Time Out magazine conducted a poll of the 100 greatest movies set in New York City. Taxi Driver topped the list, placing at No. 1. [65]
Oct 6, 2023. Page 1 of 4, 7 total items. *Taxi Driver* is an iconic cinematic journey that dives into the gritty underbelly of 1970s New York City. Directed by Martin Scorsese, this film paints a ...
It's like what Roger Ebert said in his review of the film: "Scorsese wanted to look away from Travis's rejection; we almost want to look away from his life. But he's there, all right, and he's suffering." With "Taxi Driver," I came to see how you need these kinds of movies just as much as you need the average escapist entertainment.
Furthermore, Taxi Driver topped the list of the "100 greatest movies set in New York City" a poll conducted by Timeout Magazine earlier this year. Flashback 1976: Taxi Driver. "Cabbin ...
The late film critic Roger Ebert wrote that Taxi Driver could be viewed as a series of failed attempts to connect with others, but the problem reaches far deeper than this. Without an understanding of who we are and what we are doing on this planet, connecting with others becomes a near impossibility.
Many of my favorite films (favorite for subjectivie enjoyment) Ebert gave a "meh" rating to, and some he loved I didn't particularly enjoy. But his reviews were, objectively, spot-on, and I checked his reviews habitually before seeing a movie. Point is, I don't care for Taxi Driver either, but appreciate what makes it "a great film."
The script is gritty, raw, and uncompromising and surprisingly comes from the mind of a strict Calvinist who didn't see a movie until he turned 18 (via Roger Ebert). Born and bred in Grand Rapids ...
The film is a slow Sunday drive into the maw of hell. It is largely a hell of Travis' own perceptions, though. A few critics at the time questioned the credibility of the film's portrait of New York as one big open sore; National Review critic John Simon even mocked Travis' voice-over assertion that every night when he brings the cab back to the cabstand, he has to clean ejaculate and blood ...
Metacritic reviews. Taxi Driver. 94. ... Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert. Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert. A brilliant nightmare and like all nightmares it doesn't tell us half of what we want to know. 100. ... Its deeply anarchic sensibility has kept Taxi Driver fresh all these years. [20th Anniversary Release] 100.
Taxi Driver. 1976. ★★★★★. Watched Nov 22 , 2019. Roger Ebert Jr.'s review published on Letterboxd: This is a masterpiece. I could talk about how great the use of the score is, but it's already been talked about before. I could go on about the brilliant cinematography and the great central performance, but somebody has already ...
TAXI DRIVER Friday, December 13 9:30 Directed by Martin Scorsese Starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster and Harvey Keitel (1976) "You talkin' to me?" Robert De Niro's insomniac cabbie Travis Bickle, amid his nocturnal 12-hour shifts, yearns in moody voice-over for a rain that'll "wash all the scum off the streets", while he ferries presidential candidate Leonard Harris (then ...
Movie Review Taxi Driver On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody. US Release Date: 02-08-1976. Directed by: Martin Scorsese. Starring ▸ ▾ ... I agree with Roger Ebert. The ending is a complete and utter fantasy of Bickle's, even if Martin Scorsese may suggest otherwise to open the possibility ...
Roger Ebert's review of Taxi Driver written in 2004 suggests that the film's overall focus on loneliness is what draws so many to it time and time again. The central message portrayed by the main ...
Song's performance makes me wish the rest of "A Taxi Driver" was as thoughtful. Advertisement. Song plays Sa-bok Kim, a penny-pinching widower and the oblivious father of pre-teen Eun-sung (Eun-mi Yoo). Sa-bok's story is, as realized in the film, fairly trite. He learns to become a better, more politically conscious man after he chauffeurs ...
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action. ... (Roger Ebert) REVIEW [20th Anniversary Edition] RogerEbert.com (Roger Ebert) REVIEW ... rec.arts.movies.reviews (Dragan Antulov) RETROSPECTIVE [9/10] Apollo Guide (Dan Jardine) ...
Don't know if this has been mentioned, but Roger Ebert in his review, speculated that the ending is taking place in Travis' head as he lies dying. I'd agree that in that context the ending makes more sense, than to interpret it as a literal event. ... Taxi Driver (1976) Movie Review; A Taxi Driver Review; Odd Taxi Plot Discussion; Top Posts ...
Directed by. Tim Story. As the movie opens, Latifah plays a bicycle messenger who races through Macy's, rattles down the steps of the subway, zips through a train to the opposite platform, goes up a ramp, bounces off the back of a moving truck, lands on the sidewalk, jumps off a bridge onto the top of another truck, and so on.
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Daddio. Dialogue can lie, but faces tell the truth. Stories are told through faces. It takes enormous trust on the part of a director to allow this to happen, to let the faces do most of the heavy lifting. "Daddio", written and directed by Christy Hall, is a film about faces, and this is pretty extraordinary considering it's a two-character ...