Taxi Driver

by Schrader

Overview

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.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780571144648
Publisher:	Faber and Faber
Publication date:	10/25/1990
Series:	Faber Film Ser.
Pages:	91
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.45(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Paul Schrader is a noted critic, screenwriter and director. By his mid-twenties he had already been a film reviewer for the LA Free Press, while a graduate student at UCLA; editor of his own magazine, Cinema; Fellow in Criticism of the American Film Institute; and author of the uncompromising Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer. By the mid-seventies he was one of Hollywood's most successful screenwriters, eventually writing three films for Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Last Temptation of Christ. His directorial achievments include Blue Collar, American Gigolo, Mishima, Patty Hearst, The Comfort of Strangers, and Light Sleeper.