{"id":11572,"date":"2011-04-13T16:43:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T15:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=11572"},"modified":"2011-08-01T13:35:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T12:35:11","slug":"revisiting-taxi-driver-restored-scorsese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/04\/13\/revisiting-taxi-driver-restored-scorsese\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting Taxi Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"

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* Spoiler alert: If you haven’t seen Taxi Driver then there are spoilers in this post *<\/em><\/p>\n

The new 4K restoration<\/a> of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver<\/a><\/strong> (1976) is another reminder of why it remains an enduring American classic.<\/p>\n

A drama about an isolated New York cab driver named Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), it charts his relationships with a fellow driver (Peter Boyle), a political campaign volunteer (Cybil Shepherd), a young prostitute (Jodie Foster) and her pimp (Harvey Keitel) as he starts to see violence as a solution to his problems.<\/p>\n

I first saw the film on video in 1992 and then caught it several times on television and DVD since but had never seen it on the big screen until last night at the BFI<\/a> in central London.<\/p>\n

This new version has been given an extensive 4K digital restoration under the supervision of Grover Crisp<\/a> of Sony Pictures, which means that\u00a0the basic resolution of the 35mm negative has been preserved, and it was done with the co-operation of Scorsese and cinematographer Michael Chapman<\/a>.<\/p>\n