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The Resource Taxi driver, Columbia Pictures presents a Bill/Phillips production of a Martin Scorsese film ; director of photography, Michael Chapman ; written by Paul Schrader ; produced by Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips ; directed by Martin Scorsese ; an Italo-Judeo Production

Taxi driver, Columbia Pictures presents a Bill/Phillips production of a Martin Scorsese film ; director of photography, Michael Chapman ; written by Paul Schrader ; produced by Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips ; directed by Martin Scorsese ; an Italo-Judeo Production

Label
Taxi driver
Title
Taxi driver
Statement of responsibility
Columbia Pictures presents a Bill/Phillips production of a Martin Scorsese film ; director of photography, Michael Chapman ; written by Paul Schrader ; produced by Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips ; directed by Martin Scorsese ; an Italo-Judeo Production
Contributor
Actor
Commentator
Composer
Director
Producer
Screenwriter
Subject
Genre
Language
  • eng
  • eng
  • fre
  • eng
  • fre
  • spa
  • jpn
  • kor
  • por
  • eng
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
Awards note
Four Academy Award Nominations, including Best Picture
Cataloging source
TEFMT
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Music by Bernard Herrmann ; film editors, Tom Rolf, Melvin Shapiro ; art director, Charles Rosen ; set decorator, Herbert Mulligan ; special effects, Tony Parmelee; costume designer, Ruth Morley
Language note
In English or dubbed French dialogue with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned. Disc 2. optional English, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish or Korean subtitles
PerformerNote
Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle, Cybill Shepherd
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1946-
  • 1943-
  • 1944-2002,
  • 1947-
  • 1929-2011,
  • 1935-2006,
  • 1950-
  • 1911-1975,
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Schrader, Paul
  • Phillips, Michael
  • Phillips, Julia
  • Scorsese, Martin,
  • De Niro, Robert,
  • Foster, Jodie,
  • Brooks, Albert
  • Keitel, Harvey,
  • Harris, Leonard
  • Boyle, Peter
  • Shepherd, Cybill
  • Herrmann, Bernard
  • Kolker, Robert Phillip,
  • Columbia Pictures
  • Italo-Judeo (Firm)
  • Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
Runtime
114
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Taxicab drivers
  • Loneliness
  • Child prostitutes
  • Man-woman relationships
  • Violence in men
  • Prostitutes
  • New York (N.Y.)
Target audience
adult
Technique
live action
Label
Taxi driver, Columbia Pictures presents a Bill/Phillips production of a Martin Scorsese film ; director of photography, Michael Chapman ; written by Paul Schrader ; produced by Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips ; directed by Martin Scorsese ; an Italo-Judeo Production
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • Originally produced as a motion picture in 1976
  • Screenplay special feature (in English only) allows the viewer to navigate from the movie to the corresponding chapter point in the screenplay, and also from the screenplay back to the corresponding chapter point in the movie
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
quadrophonic multichannel or surround
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Disc 1. Feature film ; Optional audio and/or subtitled commentary by Prof. Robert Kolker ; Optional audio and/or subtitled commentary by writer Paul Schrader ; Original screenplay -- Disc 2. Martin Scorsese on Taxi driver ; Producing Taxi driver ; God's lonely man ; Influence and appreciation: Martin Scorsese tribute ; Taxi driver stories ; Making Taxi driver ; Travis' New York ; Travis' New York locations ; Intro to storyboards by Martin Scorsese ; Storyboard to film comparison ; Galleries
Control code
144789136
Dimensions
4 3/4 in
Dimensions
other
Edition
Collector's ed, widescreen
Extent
2 videodiscs (approximately 114 min.)
Isbn
9781424840618
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Note
Bowdoin stacks copy: NO Public Performance Rights purchased; home or classroom use ONLY
Other control number
043396174047
Other physical details
sound, color
Publisher number
  • 17404
  • 17404 DIG
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System details
DVD; region 1, NTSC; anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital 5.1
Video recording format
DVD
Label
Taxi driver, Columbia Pictures presents a Bill/Phillips production of a Martin Scorsese film ; director of photography, Michael Chapman ; written by Paul Schrader ; produced by Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips ; directed by Martin Scorsese ; an Italo-Judeo Production
Publication
Note
  • Originally produced as a motion picture in 1976
  • Screenplay special feature (in English only) allows the viewer to navigate from the movie to the corresponding chapter point in the screenplay, and also from the screenplay back to the corresponding chapter point in the movie
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
quadrophonic multichannel or surround
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Disc 1. Feature film ; Optional audio and/or subtitled commentary by Prof. Robert Kolker ; Optional audio and/or subtitled commentary by writer Paul Schrader ; Original screenplay -- Disc 2. Martin Scorsese on Taxi driver ; Producing Taxi driver ; God's lonely man ; Influence and appreciation: Martin Scorsese tribute ; Taxi driver stories ; Making Taxi driver ; Travis' New York ; Travis' New York locations ; Intro to storyboards by Martin Scorsese ; Storyboard to film comparison ; Galleries
Control code
144789136
Dimensions
4 3/4 in
Dimensions
other
Edition
Collector's ed, widescreen
Extent
2 videodiscs (approximately 114 min.)
Isbn
9781424840618
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Note
Bowdoin stacks copy: NO Public Performance Rights purchased; home or classroom use ONLY
Other control number
043396174047
Other physical details
sound, color
Publisher number
  • 17404
  • 17404 DIG
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System details
DVD; region 1, NTSC; anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital 5.1
Video recording format
DVD

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