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Taxi Driver (Faber Film)
Paul Schrader
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Description for Taxi Driver (Faber Film)
Paperback. 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 a political campaign worker, leads to an inevitable descent into psychosis and violence. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: APFD; APTD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 10. Weight in Grams: 150.
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 ... Read more. Show Less
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 ... Read more. Show Less
Product Details
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571144648
SKU
V9780571144648
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About Paul Schrader
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 ... Read more
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