Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10137 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-07-10
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English, French
• Subtitled in: English, German, French, Hindi, Turkish, Danish, Icelandic, Swedish, Hungarian, Polish, Dutch, Finnish, Czech, Greek
• Dubbed in: German
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 109 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Taxi Driver is the definitive cinematic portrait of loneliness and alienation manifested as violence. It is as if director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader had tapped into precisely the same source of psychological inspiration ("I just knew I had to make this film", Scorsese would later say), combined with a perfectly timed post-Watergate expression of personal, political and societal anxiety. Robert De Niro, as the tortured, ex-Marine cab driver Travis Bickle, made movie history with his chilling performance as one of the most memorably intense and vividly realised characters ever committed to film. Bickle is a self-appointed vigilante who views his urban beat as an intolerable cesspool of blighted humanity. He plays guardian angel for a young prostitute (Jodie Foster), but not without violently devastating consequences. This masterpiece, which is not for all tastes, is sure to horrify some viewers, but few could deny the film's lasting power and importance. --Jeff Shannon

Special Features
1.85 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 9
French\German
English
Region 2
Dolby 2.0 English\Mono French German
Dolby 2.0
Mono
Behind The Scenes Documentary
Video Photo Gallery
Original Screenplay
Storyboard Sequence
Advertising Materials
US Theatrical
Filmographies
Czech\Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\French\German\Greek\Hebrew\Hindi\Hungarian\Icelandic\Norwegian\Polish\Swedish\Turkish

Synopsis
Martin Scorsese's intense film, a hallmark of 1970s filmmaking, graphically depicts the tragic consequences of urban alienation when a New York City taxi driver goes on a murderous rampage against the pitiable denizens inhabiting the city's underbelly. For psychotic, pistol-packing Vietnam vet Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), New York City seems like a circle of hell. Driving his cab each night through the bleak Manhattan streets, Bickle observes with fanatical loathing the sleazy lowlifes who comprise most of his fares. By day he haunts the porno theaters of 42nd Street, taking his cues from the violent vision of life portrayed in these movies. As badly as Travis wants to connect with the people around him including Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), a lovely blonde campaign worker, and Iris (Jodie Foster), a prepubescent prostitute he tries to save his attempts are thwarted and his pent-up rage grows, turning him into a Mohawk-wearing walking time bomb. Paul Schrader's screenplay is filmed with a tragic realism by Scorsese, which brilliantly captures the muck and grime of New York City. De Niro, playing the fragile hero, steps inside his role so far that the results are deeply frightening. Bernard Herrmann's haunting score which turned out to be his last completes the urban nightmare.

Customer Reviews

A Very Overated Film
This film is very overated, I dont understand why it gets the praise it does. I found it very boring and no way near as good as other scorcese films such as Goodfellas. The scene thats most memorable of Robert De Niro the famous "Are You Looking At Me", I thought was going to be said to somebody else but its just him in the mirror talking to himself very disapointing, I expected a lot from this film but it gave very little. I recommend you to watch the film but please dont regard it as a classic film.

appearences as a bad haircut are important
I like Travis, this Taxi Driver. I understand people which wants to maintain so pure as him is a little suspicious (and when not, he invites Cibyll Shepherd to a pornographic movie!) This man isn't centred, as that woman is herself a pure temptation he doesn't know how to profit.
Travis is a very good worker, a busy taxi driver and a fundamentalist criminal but at end, candid and innocent, this is, very dangerous in actual society. He shots and kills several times, but we are speaking of the exploitation as a prostitute of a girl only 13 years old. If police don't act, it's legitimate for me to do something. Choice of firearms he does is bad: the Magnum 44 is too much gun, the automatic 25 is too little gun, the 38 revolver with mother-of- pearl butt-end seems little fiable. Only the Walther 380 and the combat knife I find trustworthy.
But it's the consumer society: you have to buy the articles that are offered, and these are not ever the best material. Summing up, to clean New York from delinquents you need much more than these.

Taxi Driver
'Taxi Driver' is a dark film looking at one mans alienation from society and life around him. It looks at how he gradually descends into his own form of madness and you really get a sense for how he feels through De Niros chilling portrayal. The lack of sleep and night shifts Travis (the main protagonist) works only serve to isolate him further from reality and life. When he meets a young political campaigner and a prostitute, both of these relationships spur him into dark action against the scum of new york. I have to say the direction and acting was excellent, you really get a feel for the malevolence Travis feels around him and his sense of disjointed exhaustion. The soundtrack is very dated now and the same jazzy refrain used throughout the film started to get on my nerves. It is a good film and definitely one to watch, but I have to say I was expecting so much more after all the hype on these pages and from things i've heard before that I was left a touch disappointed. The ending is powerful and then kind of fizzles out afterwards, you'll know what I mean when you watch it. Overall a good film and worth a viewing.