All posts tagged "taxi driver"
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Movie News
Inside Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese’s Decades-Long Quest to Make a George Gershwin Biopic
May 25, 2021The Internet is littered with cinematic what-ifs: castings that almost happened, sequel ideas someone scotched, amazing-sounding...
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Movie News
Martin Scorsese: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
November 17, 2020Martin Scorsese in 78 today. In honor of his birthday, we’re sharing this edition of Things...
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Movie News
David Fincher Calls Joker ‘a Betrayal of the Mentally Ill’
November 16, 2020David Fincher said in an interview to promote his new film The Mank that he considered...
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Movie News
5 Times Al Pacino and Robert De Niro Were Up for the Same Role
August 17, 2020The Irishman united Robert De Niro and Al Pacino for only the fourth time onscreen. But...
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Acting
Mads Mikkelsen: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
March 23, 2020From Death Stranding to Star Wars to Marvel, from prestige TV (Hannibal) to high-profile Oscar contenders (At Eternity’s Gate),...
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Movie News
Martin Scorsese’s Biggest Oscar Competition? Joker, a Movie He Inspired
January 13, 2020Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman has no bigger challenger this Oscar season than Joker, a film heavily...
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Movie News
13 Joker Easter Eggs and Inspirations: The King of Comedy is Just the Start
January 13, 2020Joker received 11 Oscar nominations Monday, the most of any film this year, including for Best Picture,...
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Movie News
13 Joker Easter Eggs and Inspirations: The King of Comedy is Just the Start
October 11, 2019Todd Phillips’ Joker borrows unapologetically from other movies, especially Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and King of...
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Book Reviews
Book Review: Transcendental Style in Film
September 14, 2018In 1972, film student and aspiring critic Paul Schrader published his landmark study on spirituality in...
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Directing
Blow by Blow: How Francois Truffaut and His New Wave Contemporaries Deconstructed Filmmaking
February 6, 2018As one of the founding fathers of the French New Wave, Francois Truffaut used cinema to...
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Moviemaking
Delivering Results: How Alice Lowe Wrote Prevenge in a Week and Shot it in 11 Days… While Pregnant
March 24, 2017So, I had been attempting to develop a feature, with a view to directing. But development...
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Movie News
All-Seeing Eye: God’s Front-Row Seat in the Films of Martin Scorsese (Video)
January 7, 2017Many of Martin Scorsese’s characters fancy themselves masters of their own universe. But what makes them...
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MM Guide 2017
Paul Schrader: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
November 7, 2016Paul Schrader is learning a lot these days. Simultaneously excited about the future of moviemaking and...
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Festivals
Still Worth the Fare: Taxi Driver Screens at Tribeca Film Festival to Celebrate its 40th Anniversary
April 28, 2016The Tribeca Film Festival nearly stopped all traffic for the 40th anniversary of Taxi Driver at...
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Acting
Sticking it Out, Winning Big: Ben Mendelsohn Comes Up Aces Again in Mississippi Grind
October 1, 2015If you’ve seen Ben Mendelsohn onscreen, chances are you’ve been afraid of him. The Australian actor...
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Festival Spotlight Friday
Festival Spotlight Friday: Onwards and Upwards with Cinequest 2014
February 28, 2014Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Cinequest Film Festival isn’t shy about its home’s rich...
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Articles - Exhibition
Cinequest 2013: 4k technology and an international lineup make the Bay Area festival unmissable
February 26, 2013Now in its 23rd year, Cinequest Film Festival (CQFF) is devoted to discovering exciting up-and-coming moviemakers,...
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Other
Taxi Driver: New Taschen Book Features Photographs by Steve Schapiro From the Set of the Scorsese Classic
January 19, 2011Taxi Driver was an unlikely hit in 1976. At a time when audiences were lining up...
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Movie News
Comfortable State of Anxiety: An Interview with Martin Scorsese
October 4, 2002A ramble with America’s Greatest Living Director about his long career and his new “eastern western,”...
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