Taxi Driver by Paul Schrader

Taxi Driver by Paul Schrader

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.

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), Affliction (1997), Autofocus (2002), Dominion (2005), The Walker (2007), and Adam Resurrected (2008)..

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ISBN 13	9780571144648
ISBN 10	0571144640
Title	Taxi Driver
Author	Paul Schrader
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Year published	1990-09-17
Number of pages	128
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