I agree, this was simply beautiful.

taxi driver is my favourite scorcese film, then raging bull. it is definately a classic piece of cinema. as a side not it was bernard hermann's last film composition rounding of his career nicely as citizen kane was his first.

I love taxi driver.
its story i simple, sure, but its atmosphere of desperation, lonelyness and anger is the opposite of it.
the impact in its time must be huge, but the impact when I first saw it was huge too, so I have to say: its a true classic.
and I dig that cheesy musical maintheme of it (which you get in multiple different versions on the OST)

I stand by the claims that Taxi Driver is a masterpiece. Although if anything it's current iconic status tends to get in the way of appreciating just how good it is. I'm with fugazifan when he says to watch it again; it really does get better and better. Up there with Dog Day Afternoon, Mean Streets and Duel as one of my favourite films of all time. The bit where he's sitting watching Soul Train with his foot pushing the TV set backwards being probably my single favourite movie scene ever.

You talkin' to me?

I'm the only one here.

will do soonish!

"Faster than you."


But seriously, the only other movies that I can think of that come close to my favorites of all time are The Shining and Clockwork.

there's a scene where its just a shot of him driving, taken from the front of the cab and all you get is rain and the reflection from the street lights on the bonnet/hood, and his expression. and it lingers on that for just enough to make you uncomfortable, and just enough to make you wanna scream (or get loads of guns and shoot loads of people)

me too. and christopher walken. scary scary man

mean streets is an amazing film too. i do like taxi driver more though.

I've yet to really get the whole Dennis Hopper thing. He was fine in Easy Rider, Tracks, Out of the Blue, probably up to his performance in Blue Velvet. Since then though he strikes me as having become something of a parody of himself: Hollywood's resident rent-a-loon.

He's great in Speed, Straight to Hell, Mad Dog Morgan, Hoosiers, River's Edge, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, My Science Project, True Romance, Chasers, Apocalypse Now, Boiling Point, etc.

I hope his film "The Last Movie" gets released one day soon!!

Fuck, forgot to mention RED ROCK WEST!

This film is seriously great:

Taxi Driver does indeed get better with every watch, its one of those that things jump out at you the second, third, fourth, fifth time and continue to every time you watch it.

I don't know, I thought it was one of the best things I had ever seen in my life the first time I saw it!! The characters, the music, the cinematography, the time period, the content, De Niro's obliviousness, the poetry of the script.....so great.

Granted, I was 11 or 12, so.......

Yeah, i agree with both of our points

Brace yourselves people, i'll be watching MEAN STREETS for the first time ever TONIGHT.
yes that's right i'm no cinema expert but at least i'm TRYIN'.
g'day you all.

Taxi Driver is one of those movies where I feel like I'm in the movie long after I've watched it.