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Title Taxi driver [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures presents a Bill/Phillips production of a Martin Scorsese film ; produced by Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips ; written by Paul Schrader ; directed by Martin Scorsese.

Imprint Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [c2007].

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 1st Fl DVD Collection  DVD Taxi    ---  Available
Edition Widescreen version.
Description 2 videodiscs (approximately 114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Note In English and French ; with English, French and Spanish subtitles.
Closed-captioned.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1976.
Special features: new commentary by writer Paul Schrader; new commentary by Professor Robert Kolker; Martin Scorsese on Taxi driver; producing Taxi driver; God's lonely man: writer Paul Schrader and Prof. Robert Kolker discuss the loneliness themes as seen in the film; influence and appreciation: Robert De Niro, Oliver Stone, Roger Corman and others pay tribute to Scorsese and the film; Taxi driver stories; making of documentary; Travis' New York; Travis' New York locations; storyboard to film comparisons with Martin Scorsese introduction; animated photo galleries; original screenplay.
Contents Disc 1. Feature film -- disc 2. Special features.
Credits Director of photography, Michael Chapman ; editors, Tom Rolf and Melvin Shapiro ; music, Bernard Herrmann.
Cast Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle, Cybill Shepherd.
Summary A psychotic taxi driver tries to save a child prostitute and becomes infatuated with a political campaigner. He goes on a violent rampage when his dreams don't work out.
Audience MPAA rating: R.
System Details DVD.
Awards Four Academy Award Nominations including Best Picture.
Subject DVD-Video discs.
Genre/Form Thrillers (Motion pictures)
Films for the hearing impaired.
Added Title Taxi driver (Motion picture)
ISBN 1424840619
9781424840618
Standard No. 043396174047
Music No. 17404 Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

 
    
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