Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver


Starring:Diahnne Abbott, Frank Adu, Gino Ardito, Victor Argo, Robert De Niro, Leonard Harris, Richard Higgs, Harvey Keitel, Bob Maroff, Norman Matlock, Bill Minkin, Murray Moston, Harry Northrup, Steven Prince, Cybill Shepherd
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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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 realized 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
Taxi Driver (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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ASIN: B000R8YC18
Release Date: 2007-08-14

Product Description

At 26, Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) is slipping slowly into isolation and violence on the streets of New York City. Trying to solve his insomnia by driving a yellow cab on the night shift, he grows increasingly disgusted by the people who hang out at night: "Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets." His touching attempts to woo Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), a Senator's campaign worker, turn sour when he takes her to a porn movie on their first date. He even fails in his attempt to persuade child prostitute Iris (Jodie Foster) to desert her pimp Sport (Harvey Keitel) and return to her parents and school. Driven to the edge by powerlessness, he buys four handguns and sets out to assassinate the Senator, heading for the infamy of a `lone crazed gunman'.

DVD BONUS FEATURES INCLUDE:

"Martin Scorsese on Taxi Driver" Featurette

"Producing Taxi Driver" Featurette

"Influence and Appreciation" Documentary

Robert De Niro, Oliver Stone, Roger Corman and others pay tribute to Scorsese and the film

"God's Lonely Man" Documentary

"Travis' New York Locations" Featurette

Storyboard to Film Comparisons with Martin Scorsese Introduction

New Feature-length Commentary by Writer Paul Schrader

New Feature-length Commentary by Professor Robert Kolker

"Taxi Driver Stories" Featurette

"Making Taxi Driver" Documentary

Animated Photo Galleries

"Including Scorsese at Work" Photo Montage

Original Screenplay Read Along

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Taxi Driver.......2007-07-04

Scorsese's dark vision of human alienation in an urban wasteland captures the seaminess of pre-Giuliani Manhattan, and DeNiro's career-making performance as Bickle is haunting, recalling those real-life outcasts who have used violent crime to tell an oblivious world: "I was here!". Stunningly directed and acted, this picture is every bit as disturbing now as when released. Brilliant, but not for the faint of heart.
Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • perfect
  • One Of The Great Ones
  • Questioning the nature of good and evil
  • Never gets old.
  • You Talking To Me?!
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Starring: Diahnne Abbott , Frank Adu , Gino Ardito , Victor Argo , and Garth Avery
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ASIN: 0767830555
Release Date: 1999-06-15

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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 realized 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

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars perfect.......2007-06-19

Every aspect of this movie is exceptional.

5 out of 5 stars One Of The Great Ones.......2007-06-05

I have enjoyed a 30 year affair with this film. I watched it again last night and it just keeps getting better. The screenplay is exceptional, the cast flawless, the direction is perfect and it has a world class original score. I have seen it over 100 times by now and it never gets old. It may be the best film depiction of what it must feel like to deteriorate into a paranoid, psychotic state. If you have never seen it and can manage its dark content, it should be on your must see list. Hard to believe that it lost "Best Picture" to Rocky in 1976!

4 out of 5 stars Questioning the nature of good and evil.......2007-04-27

Viewing "Taxi Driver" for the first time recently I'm struck by the feeling that I'm seeing it out of context, and that it suffers by my comparison of it to more recent films rather than films that were its contemporaries. While "Taxi Driver" is a societal-cultural touchstone I never felt compelled to see it and having seen it now doubt I would rush back to see it again. That's not to say it's a bad film, but it is difficult viewing. Director Martin Scorsese certainly captures the nihilism, ambivalence, angst, dislocation, and malaise of the 1970s to a tee. Having grown up in that era, I remember that all too well, and in that respect "Taxi Driver" is a depressing drive down a memory lane I'd rather avoid. The characters also lack nuance or much depth: DeNiro's Travis Bickle is a stereotypical "damaged goods" Vietnam veteran (which I found profoundly insulting), Peter Boyle's Wizard is a hard-boiled, heat-packing NYC cabbie, Jodie Foster is an equally stereotyped drugged out/addled prostitute, and Harvey Kietel's pimp/hustler borders on an ugly ethnic stereotype you'd only find in a movie of this vintage. All border on two-dimensional caricatures and are almost over-the-top.

The thing that bothered me most (and perhaps that was Scorsese's intent) is the amoral ambivalence Scorsese presents here. Politicians are bland and interchangeable, uttering empty platitudes, government is the problem and the solution, Travis is a psycho and a hero. The movie is fairly drenched in shades of gray rather than the moral certainties of black and white - and perhaps that's Scorsese's intention. "Taxi Driver" was a departure from the Hollywood oeuvre that came before it with obvious heroes and villains. The end result is a movie that unsettles and causes us to question the nature of good and evil.

While "taxi Driver" is not a movie I'd care to see again anytime soon please don't misconstrue that to mean I didn't think it is not worth seeing, because everyone should see it. Out of context "Taxi Driver" is hard to sort out and feels more like camp or a send up of the whole 1970s genre of gratuitously violent films. "Taxi Driver" is far deeper than that as Scorsese forces us to move beyond our Manichean obsessions over the concepts of good and evil.

5 out of 5 stars Never gets old........2007-04-12

One of my favorite films. Movie awesome; Scorsese awesome; DeNiro awesome. Everything about the movie...awesome. Other than the movie itself, the DVD extras are pretty interesting. I'm a movie buff, or a dork, so I like to watch the extras. The interviews were fun and learning about DeNiro's dedication to this movie and other movies was pretty cool.

5 out of 5 stars You Talking To Me?!.......2007-03-19

This is my favorite movie of all time. Favorite Actor. Favorite Director. Great Score. New York City when it was N.Y.C. This film historically speaking is an archival documentary of a bygone era when neighborhoods like Clinton were known as Hell's Kitchen and the East Village was Alphabet City.
The main character, Travis Bickle is a lonely out of place Marine Vietnam Vet suffering from post-tramatic stress. He is the hero in the form of an isolated individual, running, running, always running. It is Robert DeNiro's finest performance.
The film also co-stars Harvey Keital as "Sport", a low level street pimp, the type you would like to punch but yet the best character in this film is not the late Peter Boyle as "The Wizard" or the sneak cameo appearance by Martin Scorsese himself but of "Handy Andy" the Traveling Salesman who pitches his salesman routine exquisively.
If there is ever to be made a Part II of Taxi Driver I would like to see it done soon. Perhaps the Broadway lights of the New Times Square will bring back the ghosts of 42nd Street.
Taxi Driver / Easy Rider
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Two For The Road...Stand The Test Of Time
 Taxi Driver / Easy Rider
Starring: Luana Anders , Luke Askew , Robert Ball , Tita Colorado , and Warren Finnerty
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Release Date: 2004-09-28

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Two For The Road...Stand The Test Of Time.......2006-05-06

Why these two films are packaged together, I'm not really sure. I do know that these are two of the great films that define fine filmmaking, and that will forever stand the test of time.But why look a gift horse in the mouth, right? A package of classics that should be scooped up while the price is still right.

Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jody Foster and Harvey Keitel show us early on their special gifts to cinema, along with screenwriter Paul Schrader.Taxi Driver is the tale of Travis Bickle(De Niro), a lonely man,who drives a cab through the nighttime streets of New York. Although he is all but invisible to those around him, he witnesses all the disturbing events going on in the city.

Travis is not just lonely. He is obsessive and psychotic, and we slowly sees these traits arise in him through the film.
First he becomes obsessed with the beautiful Betsy(Cybill Shepherd) a campaign worker for a presidential hopeful, only to be rejected by her, and Travis goes after the candidate. He then turns his attentions to the 12 year old Iris(Foster), a prostitute working for a pimp named Sport (Keitel). He tries desperately to save her from the streets and herself and when she doesn't respond he becomes extremely violent.

Throughout the story we see Travis' descent into his psychotic behavior. De Niro really is superb at this. We first see it in his eyes,at one point he even talks to another cab driver(Peter Boyle) about the feelings he has. He then purchases weapons, and prepares for battle like a warrior.
"You talkin to me?"...

"Easy Rider" is more than just a great film. It's an experience! Dennis Hopper who directed and co-wrote(with Peter Fonda and Terry Southern)preserved for us on film this time in history that has had a lasting cultural effect. His unique style of directing lets the viewer not just watch but experience the story from the free wheeling beginning, to the drug trips(don't worry, you won't have any flashbacks), to the devastating end.

The story takes place in the late 60's, during a time of radical cultural changes. Fonda and Hopper are motorcyclists, "long hairs", who having just scored big in the sale of drugs,are searching to be free from the everyday hang-ups of life. They are headed from Los Angeles to New Orleans, trying to make it to Mardi-Gras.Along the way they are met with the varied attitudes and life styles of those they encounter. Some just accept them for who they are, others openly show their hostility at what is different and unknown.

They are also joined by (in his breakthrough performance) the inimitable Jack Nicholson, who made me smile from the first frame he was in, all the way through. Jack plays an alcoholic lawyer who's looking for a little change in his life and joins the boys on their road trip.

So "trip" down memory lane, or experience this important film for the first time, to one of the greatest soundtracks put to film. The music includes Steppenwolf, The Birds, The Band, and The Jimmi Hendrix Experience.

The film was nominated for Best Screenplay(1969), Fonda, Hopper and Nicholson show us way back then why they were all destined to become the stars they are today. Also look for Karen Black as a New Orleans prostitute. It was brilliantly filmed and this widescreen edition brings every inch of scenery to you. It's a film well worth viewing and owning.

"They only wanted to be free..."

De Niro, Nicholson,Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper take to the road...enjoy the ride...Laurie

Taxi (Widescreen Edition)
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Taxi
  • WORST MOVIE EVER... ok maybe not, but still god-awful
  • "The Queen Is Back In This *SPEED CHASER*"
  • Taxi - Queen Latifah
  • Could've been better.
 Taxi (Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Queen Latifah , Jimmy Fallon , Henry Simmons , Jennifer Esposito , and Gisele Bündchen
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ASIN: B00005JN4H
Release Date: 2005-02-15

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Bumbling cop Washburn (Jimmy Fallon) is a terrible driver who loses his license and so recruits reluctant Belle (Queen Latifah) and her souped-up mega-cab after he stumbles onto a team of supermodel bank robbers. Several klutzy encounters and high-speed car chases ensue. If this sounds to you like the obvious result of a Hollywood pitch session ("Hey, let's pair some guy from Saturday Night Live with a tough-talking African-American and set them after babes on wheels!"), you're right; it doesn't mean, however, that you won't get in a few decent laughs before director Tim (Barbershop) Story's amiable time-killer falls into a steaming pile of would-be blockbuster buddy film cliches. The ever-ingratiating Latifah has long since proved her star charisma, and Fallon does an amusingly offhand parody of failed machismo. They're clearly having a good time together, and you could do worse than their company. There isn't a frame here that isn't cheaply recycled from some other lame action comedy, but if you grit your teeth for the very bumpy ride, you'll come out without too many scratches.--Steve Wiecking

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Sassy hip-hop star Queen Latifah brings hilarious attitude to this hard-driving, high-octane comedy action blast! Latifah plays Belle, New York's fastest cabbie, whose taxi-driving expertise - not to mention her loaded-to-the-max vehicle - comes in handy when a fumbling young undercover cop (Jimmy Fallon) must crack a bank robbery plot hatched by a gang of supermodels! Don't miss this tire-squealing, stop-on-a-dime comedy with a topflight cast of stars, including NYPD Blue's Henry Simmons, Ann-Margaret and supermodel Gisele Bundchen!

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Taxi.......2007-05-13

Great order and delivery service. Recieved the DVD in new and excellent condition. Thanks

1 out of 5 stars WORST MOVIE EVER... ok maybe not, but still god-awful.......2007-04-01

Wow, histerical. Another black-meets-white comedy, full of ridiculously cliched jokes and plotlines. This movie is so lame, the writer should've punched himself in the face the moment he even considered it. Bang your head against a wall for 2 hours rather than subject yourself to this crapfest.

3 out of 5 stars "The Queen Is Back In This *SPEED CHASER*".......2007-03-30

The Movie was okay it had it's moments. Could have been better though.

5 out of 5 stars Taxi - Queen Latifah.......2006-11-10

This movie is such a hoot! The plot has several levels of insanity and all of them are delightful, with the solution to the "crime" a subtle, "only in NYC" surprise. The obligatory "chase" scene is hysterical. Queen Latifa and crew at their joyous best.

3 out of 5 stars Could've been better........2006-06-16

Queen Latifa was great but Jimmy Fallon is an idot. His character was too hard to watch and was insulting to the audience and to police officers even though it's supposed to be a comedy.

See it but don't expect Jimmy Fallon to win any awards, except for maybe the stupid award.
Taxi (Full Screen Edition)
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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  • WORST MOVIE EVER... ok maybe not, but still god-awful
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  • Could've been better.
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Starring: Queen Latifah , Jimmy Fallon , Henry Simmons , Jennifer Esposito , and Gisele Bündchen
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ASIN: B00074CBIS
Release Date: 2005-02-15

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Bumbling cop Washburn (Jimmy Fallon) is a terrible driver who loses his license and so recruits reluctant Belle (Queen Latifah) and her souped-up mega-cab after he stumbles onto a team of supermodel bank robbers. Several klutzy encounters and high-speed car chases ensue. If this sounds to you like the obvious result of a Hollywood pitch session ("Hey, let's pair some guy from Saturday Night Live with a tough-talking African-American and set them after babes on wheels!"), you're right; it doesn't mean, however, that you won't get in a few decent laughs before director Tim (Barbershop) Story's amiable time-killer falls into a steaming pile of would-be blockbuster buddy film cliches. The ever-ingratiating Latifah has long since proved her star charisma, and Fallon does an amusingly offhand parody of failed machismo. They're clearly having a good time together, and you could do worse than their company. There isn't a frame here that isn't cheaply recycled from some other lame action comedy, but if you grit your teeth for the very bumpy ride, you'll come out without too many scratches.--Steve Wiecking

Description

Sassy hip-hop star Queen Latifah brings hilarious attitude to this hard-driving, high-octane comedy action blast! Latifah plays Belle, New York?s fastest cabbie, whose taxi-driving expertise ? not to mention her loaded-to-the-max vehicle ? comes in handy when a fumbling young undercover cop (Jimmy Fallon) must crack a bank robbery plot hatched by a gang of supermodels! Don?t miss this tire-squealing, stop-on-a-dime comedy with a topflight cast of stars, including NYPD Blue's Henry Simmons, Ann-Margaret and supermodel Gisele Bundchen!

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Taxi.......2007-05-13

Great order and delivery service. Recieved the DVD in new and excellent condition. Thanks

1 out of 5 stars WORST MOVIE EVER... ok maybe not, but still god-awful.......2007-04-01

Wow, histerical. Another black-meets-white comedy, full of ridiculously cliched jokes and plotlines. This movie is so lame, the writer should've punched himself in the face the moment he even considered it. Bang your head against a wall for 2 hours rather than subject yourself to this crapfest.

3 out of 5 stars "The Queen Is Back In This *SPEED CHASER*".......2007-03-30

The Movie was okay it had it's moments. Could have been better though.

5 out of 5 stars Taxi - Queen Latifah.......2006-11-10

This movie is such a hoot! The plot has several levels of insanity and all of them are delightful, with the solution to the "crime" a subtle, "only in NYC" surprise. The obligatory "chase" scene is hysterical. Queen Latifa and crew at their joyous best.

3 out of 5 stars Could've been better........2006-06-16

Queen Latifa was great but Jimmy Fallon is an idot. His character was too hard to watch and was insulting to the audience and to police officers even though it's supposed to be a comedy.

See it but don't expect Jimmy Fallon to win any awards, except for maybe the stupid award.
Sorry, Haters
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Seth J. Frantzman Got It Right- Good Actors, Horrible Director
  • Rediculous cliche film
  • "Are we really there, yet...?" ( Unfortunately, some probably are.)
  • Great film, unpredictable and alarming
  • Not to be missed!
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Release Date: 2006-08-08

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2 out of 5 stars Seth J. Frantzman Got It Right- Good Actors, Horrible Director.......2007-06-25

It's funny because this film does pull you in and intrigue you at first but it completely falls apart a little over halfway through. The 2 lead actors and the French sister-in-law are great. But even they can't save this mess from a director who obviously thinks that any stupid idea that he comes up with is flowing with artisitic brilliance. By the time the viewer is hit with his surprises toward the end, you just don't care that much because this film has already had more twists than a Chubby Checker concert and the characters are not that well developed. As someone who was at Ground Zero and traumatized by that experience I came away feeling cheated and offended by yet another retarded attempt to cash in on the tragedy. I thought this was going somewhere interesting when the female lead starts talking about her experience that day but unfortunately this ends up being as shameless and pointless as Nicolas Cage in World Trade Center. It's nothing more than a typical film school homework project minus the lesbians and black and white film.

2 out of 5 stars Rediculous cliche film.......2007-05-20

This film is so full of cliches and rediculous scenes that it makes one want to cry. The 'religious' Syrian Muslim man grabbing dogs and allowing alcohol in his house, his uncovered sister in law who looks and speaks french, the screaming white women who is really 'crazy' and allows herself to be molested and beaten and that takes part in self mutilation. This is just a rediculous film that in its weak attempts to 'explode prejudice' and 'deal with 9/11' fails miserably.

The director evidently felt that by making the film complicated and giving it 'twists and turns' and trying to be unpredictable that this would solve the problem of the characters, neither of which are realistic or honest. The only thing slightly honest is that the 'religious' Muslim wants to marry the western businesswoman and that she in turn is inticed by her own racist orientalism.

Seth J. Frantzman






4 out of 5 stars "Are we really there, yet...?" ( Unfortunately, some probably are.).......2007-04-10

An indelible, psychological drama -- that pulls you in, and never lets go.
Twists and turns like a mountain highway, and right on the edge, with no guard rails. Unfortunately, the title of this film is a tragedy; it is as enticing to want to watch as a cup of stale tea. It really needed a better one. And I really would never have watched it, had I not gotten two copies for resale... and being disappointed that the going prices were so low, I was considering giving it away instead. Then, having a bit of insomnia, I thought it wouldn't hurt to give it a try. Whoa... what a surprise. It pulled me in. And I can easily see this becoming a sort of slow, steady "cult" favorite over time. The word needs to get around.

5 out of 5 stars Great film, unpredictable and alarming.......2007-03-15

Great film, unpredictable and alarming
I love and own this movie but you may feel repulsed by Robin Wright Penn's character, Phoebe. This film is psychological drama. Miss Penn plays a highly disturbed single, jealous, manipulative individual living in New York City.

Penn's character hides these traits with a mousey, shy and indifferent demeanor. But wait, her personality is ever changing. From the beginning of the film you're trying to figure her character out along with an innocent taxi driver, played by Abdel Kechiche.

Some feel Robin's character became ill because of 911, I think she was already sick prior to the event and uses it to feed her psychosis. However you may interpret this movie you won't forget the alarming brutality of this film.

Robin Write Penn gives a riveting performance that sends you spinning with her changing personality.
Abdel Kechiche character, Ashade's life is victimized to the point of no return.
Unbelievable.........

5 out of 5 stars Not to be missed!.......2007-02-20

This rollercoaster ride of a film was my #1 film when I saw it at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, and if nothing else, it is certainly a film that made the biggest impact. When businesswoman Phoebe (Penn) hops into a cab driven by the Arabic Ashade (Kechiche) neither he nor the audience could possibly predict where this cab drive will lead. Along the way we meet Eloise (Bouchez), Ashade's sister-in-law, who is struggling to provide assistance to her husband, who was deported from the country after running afoul of the heightened post 9/11 security procedures at the airport. There is also Phyllis (Sandra Oh) Phoebe's co-worker, who is unaware of the drama unfolding around her.

Stanzler wrote SORRY, HATERS (the title comes from an MTV-like network's reality show) in response to the emotional impact of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 on ordinary residents of New York City. His screenplay is complex and surprising, but with much more depth than some of the twists and turns might suggest. The acting by Kechiche, Bouchez, and Oh is top-notch, but it's Robin Wright Penn who truly shines in SORRY, HATERS and her fearless, powerful performance will leave you breathless.
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Starring: Sarita Choudhury , Michelle Rodriguez , Arjun G. Awtramani , Sergej Trifunovic , and Danny Glover
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Release Date: 2002-03-26

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5 out of 5 stars i want to see this bad i cant wait cant wait.......2003-08-26

this looks good i want to see it any thing with vin diesel( hhhooottttttiiieee) and michelle rodriegiez( awesome) ill watch it im ur tipicalyy stalker.

4 out of 5 stars The Killers are Out There.......2003-05-26

A struggling taxi company has struggling taxi drivers with heavy emotional issues, add to this a serial killer who is after the taxi drivers and apparently enjoys killing them at night for sport, and what do you have? An instant movie classic? Perhaps not. But with good acting by Glover, Grier, and Rodriguez, you end up with a fine movie. This movie shows a colorful but desperate world of the working class in a big city. There is everything here: love, childhood trauma, fear of commitment, prostitution, and, of course, murder. There are even stories of Bosnian genocide!

We are introduced to a cab driver from Bosnia who is not only one of the worst natural drivers in the world, but also incredibly distracted. This means that every day he has an accident. He is so accident prone that he ends up having to leave the country and his love (who prostitutes herself at a bathhouse) and go back to Bosnia.

Not to be outdone, Glover's and Rodriguez's characters resort to extreme violence when they feel physically or emotionally pushed. The movie is original, and its host of ethnic characters makes it fun and colorful. The ending is also not your typical happy ending. It is not that unhappy. It is just not typical. I recommend the movie.

3 out of 5 stars it's just not good...........2003-04-16

After seeing Girlfight I was excited about the new young actress Michelle Rodriguez. If anyone needs to see a phenomenal debut film, that would be the one. Girlfight marked Rodriguez as a new talent to watch. Her subsequent films (Fast and the Furious, Resident Evil, and even Blue Crush) have all played on the tough girl theme that was introduced in Girlfight. I was trying to find all of the movies in which she had acted in the hopes that a performance would measure up to her first. While nothing has measured up to her first movie, in my search for her movies, I found something called 3 AM. I had never heard of this movie before, and since it co-starred Danny Glover and Pam Grier, I figured this was some independent movie that slipped under the radar. I gave it a rent and sat down to watch it. When the opening credits rolled, I found out that this was a Showtime movie. It probably never had a theatrical release and until it came out on DVD was likely only shown on Showtime. While there is excellent programming on cable (Band of Brothers, The Sopranos, etc), finding out that it is a made for Showtime movie does not inspire confidence, regardless of the actors involved.

The story follows several cabdrivers in New York City. There is a serial killer out there who is targeting cabbies, and there is a lot of fear amongst the cabbies wondering who is going to be next. As the killings continue, it hits closer to home as a cabdriver friend is killed. Danny Glover plays a cabdriver who is in love with Pam Grier (a waitress). Michelle Rodriguez plays a young cabbie trying to pay her rent, but is haunted by visions of her past. Yes, Rodriguez is still playing to type as her character is the tough girl, somewhat angry. She plays it well, but at some point Michelle is going to have to stop playing variations on the same character.

This is a fairly disappointing movie. Despite being acted by some top line talents and being produced (with a cameo appearance) by Spike Lee, this movie is just not very good. I wanted very much to like this movie, but I just couldn't. Unless you are trying to complete a collection of movies starring your favorite actor, give this one a pass and spend your money on something good,

5 out of 5 stars 3 A.M.......2002-04-23

being a die hard michelle rodriguz fan i highly recommed this. i have all three of her movies. she is street tough, sexy. like her other movies girl fight and fast and the ferious this movie is awesome. love live michelle
Taxi Driver
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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ASIN: 0800130928
Release Date: 1997-09-10

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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 realized 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

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5 out of 5 stars perfect.......2007-06-19

Every aspect of this movie is exceptional.

5 out of 5 stars One Of The Great Ones.......2007-06-05

I have enjoyed a 30 year affair with this film. I watched it again last night and it just keeps getting better. The screenplay is exceptional, the cast flawless, the direction is perfect and it has a world class original score. I have seen it over 100 times by now and it never gets old. It may be the best film depiction of what it must feel like to deteriorate into a paranoid, psychotic state. If you have never seen it and can manage its dark content, it should be on your must see list. Hard to believe that it lost "Best Picture" to Rocky in 1976!

4 out of 5 stars Questioning the nature of good and evil.......2007-04-27

Viewing "Taxi Driver" for the first time recently I'm struck by the feeling that I'm seeing it out of context, and that it suffers by my comparison of it to more recent films rather than films that were its contemporaries. While "Taxi Driver" is a societal-cultural touchstone I never felt compelled to see it and having seen it now doubt I would rush back to see it again. That's not to say it's a bad film, but it is difficult viewing. Director Martin Scorsese certainly captures the nihilism, ambivalence, angst, dislocation, and malaise of the 1970s to a tee. Having grown up in that era, I remember that all too well, and in that respect "Taxi Driver" is a depressing drive down a memory lane I'd rather avoid. The characters also lack nuance or much depth: DeNiro's Travis Bickle is a stereotypical "damaged goods" Vietnam veteran (which I found profoundly insulting), Peter Boyle's Wizard is a hard-boiled, heat-packing NYC cabbie, Jodie Foster is an equally stereotyped drugged out/addled prostitute, and Harvey Kietel's pimp/hustler borders on an ugly ethnic stereotype you'd only find in a movie of this vintage. All border on two-dimensional caricatures and are almost over-the-top.

The thing that bothered me most (and perhaps that was Scorsese's intent) is the amoral ambivalence Scorsese presents here. Politicians are bland and interchangeable, uttering empty platitudes, government is the problem and the solution, Travis is a psycho and a hero. The movie is fairly drenched in shades of gray rather than the moral certainties of black and white - and perhaps that's Scorsese's intention. "Taxi Driver" was a departure from the Hollywood oeuvre that came before it with obvious heroes and villains. The end result is a movie that unsettles and causes us to question the nature of good and evil.

While "taxi Driver" is not a movie I'd care to see again anytime soon please don't misconstrue that to mean I didn't think it is not worth seeing, because everyone should see it. Out of context "Taxi Driver" is hard to sort out and feels more like camp or a send up of the whole 1970s genre of gratuitously violent films. "Taxi Driver" is far deeper than that as Scorsese forces us to move beyond our Manichean obsessions over the concepts of good and evil.

5 out of 5 stars Never gets old........2007-04-12

One of my favorite films. Movie awesome; Scorsese awesome; DeNiro awesome. Everything about the movie...awesome. Other than the movie itself, the DVD extras are pretty interesting. I'm a movie buff, or a dork, so I like to watch the extras. The interviews were fun and learning about DeNiro's dedication to this movie and other movies was pretty cool.

5 out of 5 stars You Talking To Me?!.......2007-03-19

This is my favorite movie of all time. Favorite Actor. Favorite Director. Great Score. New York City when it was N.Y.C. This film historically speaking is an archival documentary of a bygone era when neighborhoods like Clinton were known as Hell's Kitchen and the East Village was Alphabet City.
The main character, Travis Bickle is a lonely out of place Marine Vietnam Vet suffering from post-tramatic stress. He is the hero in the form of an isolated individual, running, running, always running. It is Robert DeNiro's finest performance.
The film also co-stars Harvey Keital as "Sport", a low level street pimp, the type you would like to punch but yet the best character in this film is not the late Peter Boyle as "The Wizard" or the sneak cameo appearance by Martin Scorsese himself but of "Handy Andy" the Traveling Salesman who pitches his salesman routine exquisively.
If there is ever to be made a Part II of Taxi Driver I would like to see it done soon. Perhaps the Broadway lights of the New Times Square will bring back the ghosts of 42nd Street.
Taxicab Confessions: New York, New York Part 1
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Truthful Truth, Realistic Reality
 Taxicab Confessions: New York, New York Part 1
Director: Harry Gantz , and Joe Gantz
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Release Date: 2005-02-15

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Taxicab Confessions returns to its roots in New York City, with the 2005 premiere of Taxicab Confessions: New York, New York. Outrageous stories of life, love and loss are highlighted in this 11th installment of the popular late-night HBO America Undercover franchise. The franchise premiered in 1995 and was moved from New York to Las Vegas in 1998.

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5 out of 5 stars Truthful Truth, Realistic Reality.......2006-01-14

I feel so alive when I listen to real people talking about real things. The lives of real people are more interesting than novels or movies.
Driven
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Starring: Brook Susan Parker , Spencer Garrett , Mike Jacobs Jr. , Fred Ornstein , and Eric Pierpoint
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Release Date: 2003-04-29

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4 out of 5 stars haunting indie film about cab drivers.......2005-05-18

I've seen DRIVEN several times. It's a "slice of life" about a group of cab drivers who work for one of Los Angeles's smaller cab companies.

Naturally, these cabbies are a disparate bunch, each with their own quirks and dreams and foibles. There's the Jewish sports nut (Daniel Roebuck) who takes bets on the side. The black divorcee (Tony Todd) whose ex-wife still loves him but considers him a loser. His dream is to own a small store. There's the new guy (Chad Lowe) who loves being a cabbie -- the others just "don't get" him. And there's the tight-lipped guy (Whip Hubley) who won't open up to anyone. Then one night he meets someone who may be the woman of his dreams (Diane Dilascio), but will she overlook his lowly job?

All the actors are above average in their roles. Great jobs all around.

DRIVEN is a dark, moody, memorable film, with many "messages," the most prominent being: Don't judge someone by his job.

Its milieu is similar to HELLCAB, but DRIVEN is much better. Both films are set around Christmas time, contrasting the city's joyous yuletide lights with the cabbies unhappy lives. DRIVEN is also superior to 3A.M., yet another "slice of life" film about cabbies.

DRIVEN is only marred by its artificially happy endings. Everything's depressing until the last five or ten minutes, when someone is killed. The survivors are then motivated to take a chance on their dreams, and suddenly everything turns out happy for everyone.

The DVD introduces yet another flaw to the film: apart from no special features (aside from a trailer) -- the DVD is FULL SCREEN! Which is always a shame, but especially for indie art films such as DRIVEN.

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  5. The Sleepy Time Gal
  6. Swimming
  7. Sundance Channel Gift Pack (Scotland, Pa. / Amy's Orgasm / The Sleepy Time Gal)
  8. The Heart of Me
  9. In This World
  10. Dopamine

DVD

DVD

DVD

The Big O (Vol. 3)

Legends of Wimbledon: John McEnroe : DVD

Black Hole [P&S] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

DVD: Mark of Zorro/Don Q. Son of Zorro

Der kleine Tod der feinen Damen