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Variety has reported that Paul Schrader - best known for writing the screenplays for such films as TAXI DRIVER and RAGING BULL - has...

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Now regarded as a cinematic classic, I have to admit that Martin Scorsese's «Taxi Driver» was always a film that left me as isolated as it's lead character.

As Schrader's hero takes a bleaker look at life, and considers committing an extreme act as a desperate attempt to find resonance and morality in the world, he stands alongside the protagonists of such Schrader - written films as «Taxi Driver,» «American Gigolo» and «Light Sleeper,» three works the filmmaker has connected as his «night trilogy.&raquAs Schrader's hero takes a bleaker look at life, and considers committing an extreme act as a desperate attempt to find resonance and morality in the world, he stands alongside the protagonists of such Schrader - written films as «Taxi Driver,» «American Gigolo» and «Light Sleeper,» three works the filmmaker has connected as his «night trilogy.&raquas a desperate attempt to find resonance and morality in the world, he stands alongside the protagonists of such Schrader - written films as «Taxi Driver,» «American Gigolo» and «Light Sleeper,» three works the filmmaker has connected as his «night trilogy.&raquas «Taxi Driver,» «American Gigolo» and «Light Sleeper,» three works the filmmaker has connected as his «night trilogy.&raquas his «night trilogy.»

But the films he has been most handsomely rewarded for, critically as well as commercially, have tended to be the ones that put on display the callowness of violent adolescents of all ages, such as Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), GoodFellas (1990), and Cape Fear (1991).

Raised a strict Dutch Calvinist and best known as the screenwriter of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver — another portrait of a bristling lone wolf — Schrader inevitably got around to including a priest in this unofficial series of films.

Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver is acclaimed for its gritty realism, but it has an equal amount of cinematic reverie; screenwriter Paul Schrader contributed just as much to the film's Dostoyevskian vision.

Taxi Driver has been so effective in immersing us in Travis Bickle's singular, interior isolation, I think most of our memories of the film — its most famous images — are of his loneliness, when, in reality, the film is full of wonderful supporting characters (Peter Boyle as Wizard, and even Scorsese himself).

I confess that my initial disappointment came as a result of my own expectations — my desire that the film be more like Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, and Raging Bull.

Although perhaps best known as the screenwriter of Martin Scorsese's Oscar - winning 1976 film Taxi Driver, Paul Schrader has gone on to become a distinctive director in his own right since the late 1970s.

This is a remarkable film in many ways - angry, visceral, brimming with testosterone and not a little self - mythologising (Mullan describes his gang membership as «I was a total tourist»)- and has touches of Taxi Driver and Ken Loach about it.

Disturbing and brilliant as it is for drawing the audience into Bickle's head, a film like Taxi Driver still exists safely within the realm of serious drama.

Banned Iranian director Jafar Panahi «s Taxi, in which the filmmaker stars as a taxi driver talking to passengers as he navigates the streets of Tehran, won the Berlinale Golden Bear for best film Saturday at the 65th Berlin International Film FestiTaxi, in which the filmmaker stars as a taxi driver talking to passengers as he navigates the streets of Tehran, won the Berlinale Golden Bear for best film Saturday at the 65th Berlin International Film Festitaxi driver talking to passengers as he navigates the streets of Tehran, won the Berlinale Golden Bear for best film Saturday at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.

Known for films about masculinity and violence such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The Departed, Scorsese's protagonists in the past have been disturbed and / or criminal men, and as a director he has become associated with tales of gangsters and stories of NYC's underbelly.

As an actor, his introduction to most English - speaking audiences was starring as Ashade the taxi driver in the 2005 psychological thriller «Sorry, Haters», an «official selection» in both the Toronto and American Film Institute's film festivalAs an actor, his introduction to most English - speaking audiences was starring as Ashade the taxi driver in the 2005 psychological thriller «Sorry, Haters», an «official selection» in both the Toronto and American Film Institute's film festivalas Ashade the taxi driver in the 2005 psychological thriller «Sorry, Haters», an «official selection» in both the Toronto and American Film Institute's film festivals.

Following director Sophie Fiennes» 2006 «The Pervert's Guide to Cinema,» this sequel involves Zizek in various costumes from famous films while discussing psychoanalytic theory, digging into the profound ideas about society and the human condition as far reaching as «The Searchers» and «Taxi Driver.»

The movie is set to be directed by Todd Phillips (The Hangover), with Martin Scorsese producing, and is said to be «a gritty and grounded hard - boiled crime film set in early -»80s Gotham City that isn't meant to feel like a DC movie as much as one of Scorsese's films from that era, like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull or The King Of Comedy.»

I'm not sure exactly what writer - director Jody Hill (The Foot Fist Way, «East Bound and Down») has in mind with Observe and Report, as one can only conclude that his film is intentionally meant to be Taxi Driver if it were directed in the vein of a Will Ferrell farce.

After co-writing The Yakuza with his brother Leonard in 1974, he went on to write Taxi Driver, perhaps the best film to come out of that scene next to The Godfather, and certainly Schrader's best work as a writer.

His last two major scores, for Obsession and Taxi Driver, give the films so much formal, emotional, and thematic shape that the usual rule of music serving as accompaniment often seems reversed, and the images, dialogue, and sound effects seem to accompany the scores.

Release date: May 18 Cast: Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer Directed by: Paul Schrader (Auto Focus) Why we're excited: Paul Schrader is perhaps best known as screenwriter of Martin Scorsese classics like Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, but he's also had an equally compelling career as a director of his own hard - edged, morally complex films like Hardcore and Affliction.

Sean Fennessey sits down with legendary filmmaker Paul Schrader to discuss his powerful new film, First Reformed, starring Ethan Hawke; his patient style of filmmaking, and his major career achievements, such as cocreating Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Last Temptation of Christ.

Banned Iranian director Jafar Panahi «s Taxi, in which the filmmaker stars as a taxi driver talking to passengers as he navigates the streets of Tehran, won the Berlinale Golden Bear for best film Saturday at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.Another fest favorite, Chilean director Pablo Larraín «s subversive and darkly comic new film El Club (The Club), picked up the Grand Jury prize, or the Silver BTaxi, in which the filmmaker stars as a taxi driver talking to passengers as he navigates the streets of Tehran, won the Berlinale Golden Bear for best film Saturday at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.Another fest favorite, Chilean director Pablo Larraín «s subversive and darkly comic new film El Club (The Club), picked up the Grand Jury prize, or the Silver Btaxi driver talking to passengers as he navigates the streets of Tehran, won the Berlinale Golden Bear for best film Saturday at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.Another fest favorite, Chilean director Pablo Larraín «s subversive and darkly comic new film El Club (The Club), picked up the Grand Jury prize, or the Silver Bear.

As was also evident with Good Time, the influence of 1970s New Hollywood directors was palpable in Ramsay's film, which comes across as an extended remake of the final scene of Taxi DriveAs was also evident with Good Time, the influence of 1970s New Hollywood directors was palpable in Ramsay's film, which comes across as an extended remake of the final scene of Taxi Driveas an extended remake of the final scene of Taxi Driver.

As crazy as it sounds, many a film has been booed at Cannes including some highly revered works given the Palme d'Or like Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver, and The Tree of LifAs crazy as it sounds, many a film has been booed at Cannes including some highly revered works given the Palme d'Or like Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver, and The Tree of Lifas it sounds, many a film has been booed at Cannes including some highly revered works given the Palme d'Or like Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver, and The Tree of Life.

This low - budget arthouse crime thriller draws on the classic American cinema of the 1970s — films such as Dog Day Afternoon and Taxi Driver — when a new mood of pessimism was taking over politics and culture, but comes to articulate its own strange sweetness and hope.

As the fully restored Blu - ray version of «Taxi Driver» makes clear, the classic collaboration between Schrader, director Martin Scorsese, and actor Robert De Niro remains a suspenseful, shocking, and beautiful film 35 years after its first release.

The intention is to make a gritty and grounded hard - boiled crime film set in early -»80s Gotham City that isn't meant to feel like a DC movie as much as one of Scorsese's films from that era, like Taxi Driver, Raging Bull or The King Of Comedy.

As it was, it would be his penultimate film; Herrmann's last hurrah being his brilliant but atypical score for Taxi Driver (1976).

A madcap plot unites chefs, dancers, an elephant keeper, taxi drivers, and myriad other characters as Dini and Maddie orchestrate the opening night of Dolly's latest film at the Smithsonian Institution.