Taxi driver

Resource Information

The work Taxi driver represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bowdoin College Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Taxi driver

Statement of responsibility

[presented by] Columbia Pictures ; a Bill/Phillips production of a Martin Scorsese film ; written by Paul Schrader ; produced by Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips ; directed by Martin Scorsese

Contributor

• Columbia Pictures Corporation
• Columbia Pictures Corporation
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)
• Columbia TriStar Home Video (Firm)
• Boyle, Peter, 1935-2006
• Boyle, Peter, 1935-2006
• Brooks, Albert, 1947-
• Brooks, Albert, 1947-
• De Niro, Robert
• De Niro, Robert
• Foster, Jodie
• Foster, Jodie
• Harris, Leonard, 1929-2011
• Harris, Leonard, 1929-2011
• Herrmann, Bernard, 1911-1975
• Herrmann, Bernard, 1911-1975
• Keitel, Harvey
• Keitel, Harvey
• Phillips, Julia, 1944-2002
• Phillips, Julia, 1944-2002
• Phillips, Michael, 1943-
• Phillips, Michael, 1943-
• Schrader, Paul, 1946-
• Schrader, Paul, 1946-
• Scorsese, Martin
• Scorsese, Martin
• Shepherd, Cybill, 1950-
• Shepherd, Cybill, 1950-

Subject

• Child prostitutes -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Child prostitutes -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Drama
• Drama
• Feature films -- United States
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Loneliness -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Loneliness -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Man-woman relationships -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Man-woman relationships -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• New York (N.Y.) -- Drama
• New York (N.Y.) -- Drama
• Prostitutes -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Prostitutes -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Taxicab drivers -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Taxicab drivers -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Video recordings
• Video recordings
• Videorecording
• Violence in men -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama
• Violence in men -- New York (State) | New York -- Drama

Genre

• Drama
• Feature films
• Films for the hearing impaired
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Video recordings

Language

• eng
• mul
• eng

Summary

A New York cab driver is driven to obsession when he attempts to save a teenage prostitute and embarks on a violent rampage against a world of filth and corruption

Awards note

Cannes Film Festival: Golden Palm; AFI: 100 best films

Cataloging source

JED

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Michael Chapman; editors, Tom Rolf, Melvin Shapiro; editing supervisor, Marcia Lucas; music, Bernard Herrmann

Language note

In English (closed-captioned) with subtitles in Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean or Thai

PerformerNote

Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle, Cybill Shepherd

Runtime

135

Target audience

general

Technique

live action