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Taxi Driver captured the angst felt throughout America in the post-Vietnam era. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver (1976) is a psychological drama and a tale of alienation, displaced...
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Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
[Taxi Driver, written by Paul Schrader, centers on Travis Bickle, an ex-Marine] who becomes a New York taxi driver, who is willing to drive at night even in the ris...
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Critical Essay by Patricia Patterson and Manny Farber
Basing its tortured hackie hero vaguely on the pasty-faced Arthur Bremer, who, frustrated in his six attempts to kill Nixon, settled on maiming Ge...
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Critical Essay by Michael Dempsey
In Taxi Driver, New York City is a steaming, polluted cesspool and Travis Bickle's cab a drifting bathysphere from which he can peer at the "garbage and...
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Critical Essay by Robert E. Lauder
Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver has to be one of the most disturbing films ever made. Working with the metaphor of the city as sewer, Scorsese catches the sin-s...
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Critical Essay by Richard Combs
The opening shot of Taxi Driver plays probably the most seductive of trumps in the recent craze for power totems that has overtaken the American screen…. Out of ...
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Critical Essay by Julian C. Rice
[Taxi Driver] is, in part, a film about films. But it is unusual in being expressive of, and simultaneously about, a particular kind of film, which might be called &#x...
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In the following excerpt from an essay in which he discusses Taxi Driver and Lina Wertmuller's Seven Beauties (1976), Westerbeck examines the dreamlike qualities and allusions to genre in Scors...
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"He's a profit and a pusher.
Partly truth partly fiction.
A walking contradiction." - Kris Kirstofferson
In Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle repeatedly expresses two ideas that are ...
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Taxi Driver
Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
Religion & Purification in Taxi Driver
