Monday 30 May 2016

Taxi Driver (1976 Martin Scorsese)

It's so French, the most European of any American film since the Golden Age. I'm not a fan of moving the camera unnecessarily but here Marty does it with such skill, often on an action / reaction shot too. I wish he would make another small film as good as this one. The soundtrack is also amazing, like Repulsion. Michael Chapman's photography makes this film look like no other. Bernard Herrmann's last and most sinister score.

Q., who hadn't seen it in a while, was saying "I don't remember all this. There's Albert Brooks! Where's the violence? Where's Jodie?" etc. etc.

It's AMAZING!

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