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Taxi Driver
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Taxi Driver
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Paul Schrader
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:128 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 215,Width 135 |
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| Category/Genre | Film scripts and screenplays
Television scripts and screenplays |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780571144648
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| Classifications | Dewey:791.4372 |
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| Edition |
Main
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Faber & Faber
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| Imprint |
Faber & Faber
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| Publication Date |
17 September 1990 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
A loner, Travis Bickle takes up driving a taxi in search of an escape from his sleeplessness and his disgust with the corruption he finds around him. His pent-up rage, fuelled by his doomed relationship with the political campaign worker Betsy, leads to an inevitable descent into psychosis and violence.One of the key films of the seventies, it won the Palme d'Or at the 1976 Cannes Festival.This volume also contains an extended interview between Schrader and Martin Scorsese in which they discuss their unique relationship - one which stretches from Taxi Driver through Raging Bull to The Last Temptation of Christ.
Author Biography
Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1946, Paul Schrader was raised in a Calvinist household where movies were proscribed. He made up for lost time by becoming first a gifted critic, then the screenwriter of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, then the director of a string of cerebral and provocative films, including Blue Collar (1978), American Gigolo (1980), Mishima (1985), Patty Hearst (1988), The Comfort of Strangers (1990) and Affliction (1997). His latest film is Autofocus (2002).
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