Taxi Driver
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 ri...
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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 G...
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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 an...
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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-...
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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 &#...
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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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Pretoria (dpa) - An estimated 10,000 taxi drivers and operators
took to the streets of Pretoria on Friday to protest South Africa's
plans for an overhaul of its public taxi ...
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Pretoria (dpa) - Thousands of taxi drivers from the South African
cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria marched to Union Buildings, the
seat of national government in Pretoria...
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A group of cabbies sued city regulators Wednesday in an attempt to block a new requirement that all taxis be outfitted with global positioning systems and software that will record where they drive...
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Ramallah (dpa) - Israeli soldiers pressed on with a search-and-
arrest raid in Nablus for the second day running Friday, witnesses
and the military said.
The ...
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A taxi drivers' advocacy group has called for a two-day strike next month to protest new technology requirements, but other taxi groups oppose the strike.The New York Taxi Workers Alliance fears th...
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For most people, even the smallest bite of a raw chili pepper means a flushed face and a rush for a gulp of water. But Manuel Quiroz can guzzle down dozens of Mexico's spiciest chilies, rub them on...
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Taxi Driver
Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann
Religion & Purification in Taxi Driver
ROUNDUP: South African taxi drivers protest taxi network overhaul
