Author: Amy Taubin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-07-25
Total Pages: 117
ISBN-13: 1838718443
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Paul Schrader was in meltdown in 1972. Drinking heavily, living in his car, he was hospitalised with a gastric ulcer. There he read about Arthur Bremer's attempt to assassinate Alabama Governor George Wallace: the story was the germ of his screenplay for Taxi Driver (1976). Executives at Columbia hated the script, but when Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, who were flying high after the triumphs of Mean Streets (1973) and The Godfather Part II (1974), signed up, Taxi Driver became too good a package to refuse. Scorsese transformed the script into what is now considered one of the two or three definitive films of the 1970s. De Niro is mesmerising as Travis Bickle – pent-up, bigoted, steadily slipping into psychosis, the personification of American masculinity post-Vietnam. Cybill Shepherd and Jodie Foster give fine support and Scorsese brought in Bernard Herrmann, the greatest of film composers, to write what turned out to be his last score. Crucially, Scorsese rooted Taxi Driver in its New York locations, tuning the film's violence into the hard reality of the city. Technically thrilling though it is, Taxi Driver is profoundly disturbing – finding, as Amy Taubin shows, racism, misogyny and gun fetishism at the heart of American culture. In her foreword to this special edition, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the BFI Film Classics series, Amy Taubin considers Taxi Driver anew in the context of contemporary politics of race and masculinity in the US, and draws on an exclusive interview with Robert De Niro about his memories of making the film.
Author: Davidson Garrett
Publisher: King Lear of the Taxi
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 53
ISBN-13: 9780977444601
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →King Lear of the Taxi is a philosophical journey through poetry and prose of a struggling actor who must earn a grueling living as a taxi driver-while striving to attain artistic success. Davidson Garrett's self-portrait is a glimpse at an ever-changing New York City-where the inflation rate multiplies by the week-and aspiring artists are threatened by an urban society that values real estate over the long-term health of the arts.
Author: Eric Ode
Publisher: Kane/Miller Book Publishers
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 29
ISBN-13: 9781610670722
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Here's Dan, Beep! Beep! the Taxi Man, going to the show and picking up the band. Climb inside while you still can with Dan, Beep! Beep! the Taxi Man." And what a band it is! A symphony of sounds and colors, this cumulative tale is as much fun to read aloud as it is to listen to.Singer/songwriter, author and renowned performer Eric Ode has crafted a delightfully engaging cumulative verse brought to life by Kent Culotta's exuberant paintings. The rhyme sings with the sounds belonging to the various instruments of each hip band member as they pile into Dan's taxi, heading to the show.
Author: Renate A. Schulz
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
Published: 2014-11-05
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1627871802
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Retired university professor Renate Schulz is looking for something to do with her life, some way to give back. She decides to rejoin the Peace Corps forty-six years after she first served. Life in Alien Territory: Memories of Peace Corps Service in Mali chronicles her eleven months in Mali, West Africa, a predominantly Muslim country. At age seventy-one, she is the oldest Peace Corps volunteer among 180 other Americans. Schulz weaves the highs and lows of her life as a volunteer in Africa into her daily journal entries. Her personal struggles with the challenges of living in third world conditions, particularly at her age, are woven into her real-life concerns about human rights in West Africa, particularly for women and children. Her time in Mali, with all its challenges and frustrations, are offset with her growing appreciation for this "alien" culture. In this wonderfully readable travel narrative, Schulz captures the spirit of the culture, education, and people of Mali. At the same time, she shows how you are never too old to have a life-changing adventure.
Author: John Lockett
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781785451706
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard Elman
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9782757838013
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"You talkin' to me ?" Cette réplique de Robert de Niro dans Taxi Driver est l'une des plus célèbres de l'histoire du cinéma. Mais tout le monde n'a pas eu la chance de lire le roman qui a inspiré ce film culte... Travis Bickle, ancien marine, se reconvertit en chauffeur de taxi à New-York. Afin d'échapper à sa solitude, il fait la cour à Betsy, l'assistante du candidat aux présidentielles. Tourmenté par ses amours difficiles et par la violence de ses nuits, il décide de s'entraîner au maniement d'armes, animé par le rêve d'un grand destin....
Author: LOCKETT JOHN.
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781785451690
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Susan Barker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-08-18
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1501106783
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Originally published in Great Britain in 2014 by Doubleday."