Advantages: Incredible direction, performances and writing. Disadvantages: None.
A loose remake of John Ford's The Searchers, Martin Scorsese's TaxiDriver tells the tale of Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro in an iconic, legendary, career-defining performance), a Vietnam veteran serving as a night-shift cabbie on the streets of New York City. An unhinged, socially inept loner, Travis, having been rejected by the woman he has fallen in love - or lust - with, attempts first to assassinate the presidential candidate for whom said woman was working, and then to rescue from a life of prostitution a 13 year old girl by the name of Iris.
Alongside the likes of Abel Ferrara's Driller Killer, Walter Hill's The Warriors and Scorsese's own Mean Streets, TaxiDriver helped to cement in the public imagination the image of New York as a dangerous, sin-sodden, nocturnal netherworld populated primarily by pimps, hustlers, hookers ...
Advantages: Excellent Movie Sountrack. Disadvantages: None!
memories of this movie and of the time it was released in the charts to me and I just love recalling it all. This track was released in 1985 and reached number 15 in the billboard charts. The music video to accompany this love song was taken from clips of the St Elmo's Fire movie also. This is an excellent track, that?s an all time favourite to me.
Overall Opinion Of St Elmo's Fire Soundtrack.
Well as you have probably gathered from reading this review, I really love this soundtrack a lot. I have had this original one for over twenty years. I first had it on cassette and then upgraded it to CD. It really looks a bit tatty on it, but that?s because it has been played a lot by me over the years, as I love it so much. This CD was one of the first movie soundtracks that really caught my attention because of the great meanings all the songs ...
Advantages: Scorsese, De Niro, Hermann, Schrader, Chapman Disadvantages: None.
Martin Scorsese's TAXIDRIVER was released in 1976 and for me, like millions of film buffs, is the greatest film ever made, elevated above every character study since through its fevered, paranoid, stark and unforgettable imagery of one man's vision of hell on earth, an entirely plausible New York.
Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle is a "cabbie" by night, insomniac by day. With long drawn-out nights looking through his windshield at New York's famous steaming sewers, rain-slicked filthy streets and glaring neon lights, and only his deteriorating thoughts for companionship, an alienated Travis learns to detest his surrounding world and those who decay it, working through his boiling contempt as he takes the truly detestable people of his city ("whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies") to their destinations. When ...
Charles_Strickland 22.09.2006 (28.07.2007)
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Product Information for "Taxi Driver - Original Soundtrack" »
Product details
Title
Taxi Driver
Performer
Original Soundtrack
Genre
Soundtracks
Sub Genre
Film
Release Date
01/09/1998
Recomended Retail Price
5.99 GBP
Label / Distributor
Arista / Sony Music/Arvato Services
Producer
Neely Plumb
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
78221900522
Catalogue Number
07822190052
Additional notes
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Tom Scott (saxophone). Engineers: Mickey Crofford, Don Henderson, Kevin Cleary. Includes liner notes by Martin Scorsese. Composed by Bernard Herrmann. All tracks have been digitally remastered. Includes over 25 minutes of previously unreleased music.
Album Reviews
Entertainment Weekly (10/12/01, p.40) - Ranked #63 in EW's "100 Best Movie Soundtracks" - "...Blends the sweaty tension of Herrmann's Hitchcock scores with a rare journey into sax-driven jazz..." Mojo (6/02, p.67) - Included in Mojo's "100 Coolest Movie Soundtracks" - "...Hermann's last great score....the music pulls us further into the movie's depths. Possibly the slickest use of harp in any soundtrack ever."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Main Title
2.
Thank God For The Rain
3.
Cleaning The Cab
4.
I Still Can't Sleep
5.
They Cannot Touch Her (Betsy's theme)
6.
Phone Call
7.
I Realise How Much She Is Like The Others
8.
Strange Customer
9.
Watching Palantine On TV
10.
You're Gonna Die In Hell
11.
Betsy's Theme
12.
Hitting The Girl
13.
.44 Magnum Is A Monster
14.
Getting Into Shape
15.
Listen You Screwheads
16.
Gun Play
17.
Dear Father And Mother
18.
Card Soap Opera
19.
Sport And Iris
20.
$20 Bill
21.
Target Practice
22.
Assassination Attempt
23.
After The Carnage
24.
Reluctant Hero
25.
Betsy
26.
End Credits
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