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Taxi Driver
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"Martin Scorsese's brilliant 1976 film about Travis Bickle has the best music score I've ever heard. Bernard Herrmann died the day he finished his recording sessions for the movie. Herrmann did the music for the radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds," "Citizen Kane" and "Psycho," among many other films. The score for "Taxi Driver" has no memorable songs, no hit singles. It's tied inseparably to the visuals, searing and complete. The opening of the movie is riveting, with steam coming from the manholes and a cab appearing through the mists like some monster from a deep lagoon as Herrmann's menacing, sinister score fades in and out. When you've never seen the movie, you don't know what it's about, but you know immediately it's going to be bad. And it is. If you haven't seen the movie since it came out, it's time to see it again. It's been over thirty years, and Scorsese still has it nailed. It's riveted down and bolted. He welded it. It's still a scorching movie. DeNiro plays Travis ... "
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"For what it’s worth, it’s perfect casting, but there’s still something surprising about the news that Dakota Fanning is taking on the starring role in Floria Sigismondi’s film about ’70s girl group The Runaways. As 15-year-old rocker Cherie Currie, Fanning will continue to bait stories about how quickly she’s growing up, though really the part seems both ironic and appropriate for the former child actress. Currie, who fronted the band wearing a lot of low-cut tops and lingerie on the outside (before Madonna!), may have grown up too fast thanks to her sexualized image and early abuses of drugs and alcohol, but just because Fanning will play the part doesn’t mean she’ll be similarly thrust into adulthood. If anything, her masquerade as Currie will be more effective if audiences recognize that Fanning is still a little girl. Fanning remains on track to be her generation’s Jodie Foster (who, interestingly enough, costarred with Currie in the movie
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"What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here: http://www.spout.com/blogs/pip pin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.a spx Taxi Driver is on the following AFI lists: The Original Top 100 (#47)100 Most Heart-Pounding Movies (#22)100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains (Travis Bickle is the #30 villain)100 Movie Quotes (#10 - Travis Bickle: "You talking to me?")The Revised Top 100 (#52) Courtesy of the weekly red envelope, the next AFI entry marks Martin Scorsese's second entry on the original AFI list. I had never seen Taxi Driver, and aside from the famous (or infamous?) "you talking to me" aside, I knew very little about the film, but I was eager to see how Marty's visual prowess would highlight this particular story, since this (along with Raging Bull) are the most esteemed projects of his illustrious film catalog, at least according to people who seem to know more than me. Back when Robert DeNiro was Marty's muse in a string of f ... "
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"From the turn-of-the-century Northwest to seedy 70’s NYC, from an 80’s morgue to 90’s Japan to the modern-day midwest, the oldest profession in the world is onscreen to stay. Here are five timeless performances that are worth the peep show. Julie Christie as Constance Miller in Robert Altman’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller Julie Christie is exhilarating in her Oscar-nominated turn as the smart and sexy Constance Miller, a no-nonsense businesswoman in the wild and wicked Northwest who just happens to be in the business of selling sex. In fact, it’s Warren Beatty’s dream chaser John McCabe who is the bimbo to Miller’s sly fox. Like a whore himself, he needs the professional madam’s charms and chops to make a living more than she needs him as a partner in their bordello/tavern venture. Sex-positive feminism at its finest.
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"Director: Stig SvendsenNorwegian, 9 minutes, colorCinema 4 Rating: 6A scene that I did not mention the other day in my piece on My Name is Yu Ming was one in which the titular character, a Chinese man who has learned Gaelic in order to seek a new and hopefully more fulfilling existence in Ireland (a course which he has suggested to himself entirely at random), engages in an impersonation of an iconic movie scene. Yu Ming, his face covered by cream as he shaves in front of his bathroom mirror, begins to perform De Niro's "You talkin' to me?" scene from Taxi Driver, repeating the famous lines in his newly learned second language, though after he does four or five bits, he drops the tough guy act and snickers nerdishly at the mirror, handily amused with his lonely antics.I started to wonder then as to whether a character in Yu Ming's circumstances and location would have not only actually had the chance to see Taxi Driver, but whether that sequence has quite the same impact dubbed int ... "
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"***** out of 5 stars Directed By: Shane Meadows Starring: Paddy Considine, Toby Kebbell, and Gary Stretch Language: English Released: 2004 Synopsis: This film is about a soldier, Richard (Considine) who returns home to his small town in the Midlands of England to take revenge on the group of thugs, led by Sonny (Stretch) that, years ago brutalized his mentally challenged brother, Anthony (Kebbell). He starts out with a carefully calculated plot designed to terrorize the group. But soon enough, he ups the ante, picking them off one by one in a fashion that leaves the remaining few begging for mercy. As the story unfolds we learn piece by piece, the events that took place those many years ago that lead to Richard’s rage. Review: I can’t really say anything bad about this film as a whole; I fully enjoyed it and was very surprised at how well the scenes were put together on a "
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You talkin' to me?
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"A brilliantly disturbing work of art about human decadence and one night-shift taxi driver who just couldn't take it any longer. The message this film carries is one that every young man will have to hear at some point in his life. That Martin Scorsese created such a mature, raw, and powerful work so early in his career is truly remarkable. Watch for his cameo, by the way. It took me by surprise when I first noticed it. But yes, it was really quite something to see a few familiar faces when they were so, so young. Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, and Harvey Keitel really delivered in their respective roles, as some of the imagery, dialogue, and plot elements really challenged me as a human being. It ranged from disgusting to earie to unsettling and disturbing. De Niro shines as a man being consumed by his own loneliness and inner madness just waiting to explode. "
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De Niro at his best!
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"Robert De Niro makes an astonishing and haunting performance as Travis Bickle. The ending is brilliant! It's no suprise that it won the Cannes Film Festival of that year! "
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"It still shocks me today the amount of people who are yet to see this film. You can ask almost anybody if they know the lines from it and they will, but have they all seen it? Hell no. Someone asked me to reccommend a good film the other day, so I said how bout Taxi Driver....'What's that then?'. This film is awesome. I'm not saying that The Departed was bad, far from it, it was brilliant, but if any Scorsese film was going to win an Oscar, it SHOULD have been this one.I personally consider this film to be at the top of Robert De Niro's acting career as he plays Bickle so well. This film is a classic, but I think that goes without saying seeing as it produced some of the most iconic lines in cinema and has affected so many films and film makers throughout time. The score composed by Bernard Herrmann, was his last before he died and is a monument to his talent and may he never be forgotten. The diegetics of this film shaped it as much as the direction and ... "
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The Great Movies: Taxi Driver
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"A proverb once said that if you look into the abyss, the abyss will look into you. If there's anyone who can vouch for that, it would have to be Travis Bickle...and perhaps Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese. Taxi Driver still gives me goose bumps months after watching it. It haunts you in ways that few films do and is one of the first films to show antiheroes that shouldn't be applauded, but feared.Travis (Robert De Niro) takes a job as a taxi driver to make money and to move around. He works nights and finds himself isolated even with people that sit only a couple of feet behind him. He is isolated even from himself to a point that when he looks into a mirror, he can't even recognize his own reflection. His misunderstood because he wants to be misunderstood, antisocial because that would only fuel the rage that pounds underneath the surface. The film doesn't so much have a plot but observes the ultimate deconstruction of a time bomb. Travis finds love in two women ... "
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