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Taxi driver / Amy Taubin.
- Title
- Taxi driver / Amy Taubin.
- Author
- Taubin, Amy.
- Publication
- London : BFI, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PN1997.T38 T38 2012x | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- British Film Institute
- Description
- 93 : ill. (some col.); 19 cm.
- Summary
- "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."--Cover.
- Series Statement
- BFI film classics
- Uniform Title
- BFI film classics.
- Subject
- Taxi driver (Motion picture : 1976) > Criticism and interpretation
- Note
- Previous ed.: 2000.
- Includes bibliographical references
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-90).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 'Taxi Driver' -- Notes -- Credits.
- ISBN
- 9781844574995 (pbk.)
- 1844574997 (pbk.)
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library