New on Blu-ray & DVD: April 5
'Taxi Driver' 35th Anniversary Edition on Blu-ray
"You talkin' to me?" Robert De Niro delivers his breakthrough performance in director Martin Scorsese's dark New York tale, 'Taxi Driver,' now on newly re-mastered Blu-ray! De Niro plays Travis Bickle, a Vietnam vet who takes a night job driving a taxi for New York's often left-of-center clientele. When he meets and befriends Iris (Jodie Foster), a 13-year-old prostitute, he sets out to save her from her pimp (Harvey Keitel). Cybill Shepherd and Albert Brooks also star in the film that earned four Academy Award nominations.
The special Blu-ray edition features the original 1986 commentary by Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader; "Martin Scorsese on Taxi Driver"; "Producing Taxi Driver"; "Influence and Appreciation" (in which Oliver Stone, Roger Corman, De Niro and others pay tribute to Scorsese); "Travis' New York Locations"; real-life "Taxi Driver Stories"; the interactive "Script to Screen" feature (noting the differences from the original script to the finished film); "God's Lonely Man" documentary; a collection of glossy stills and more!
