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Martin Scorsese's legendary neo-noir thriller film Taxi Driver will find itself a new streaming home next month.

The legendary director's 1976 film Taxi Driver will land on Max on February 1st. The film was also made available to watch on Tubi earlier this month and is additionally available to stream on both Netflix and Prime Video. Written by Paul Shrader, the film stands as one of Scorsese's biggest films as both a box office and critical success with an 89% critical score on Rotten Tomatoes.

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The neo-noir classic stars Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle, a Vietnam War veteran who becomes a taxi driver in the hope it will help his insomnia. The film details his mental deterioration...

One of the biggest hits of Martin Scorsese's distinguished career is set to premiere this holiday season for free. The beloved neo-noir psychological drama, Taxi Driver, parks its way onto Tubi to kick off the New Year.

Tubi recently confirmed Taxi Driver will debut on its free-to-watch platform on Jan. 1, 2025. The film is currently available to watch with a subscription on Netflix or to rent/purchase via Prime Video.

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Written by Paul Schrader, Taxi Driver is set in a morally decaying New York City after the Vietnam War. The film chronicles Robert De Niro's Travis Bickle, a veteran Marine who took on a taxi driving job to cure his loneliness and chronic insomnia.

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Winner of the prestigious Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival (1976) and nominated for 4 Academy Awards® including Best Picture (1976), Taxi Driver stars Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese’s classic film of a psychotic New York cabbie driven to violence by loneliness and desperation. Co-starring Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle and Cybill Shepherd. Disc Details And Bonus Materials

4K Ultra HD Disc Restored from the original camera negative, presented in 4K resolution with Dolby VisionEnglish 5.1 + mono

Special Features:

Making Taxi Driver Documentary

Storyboard to Film Comparisons with Martin Scorsese

Introduction

Animated Photo Galleries

20th Anniversary Re-Release Trailer

Blu-ray Disc™

Feature presented in high definition, sourced from the 4K master

English 5.1

Special Features:

40-Minute Taxi Driver Q&a featuring Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster and Many More Recorded Live at the Beacon Theatre in New York City at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival

Commentary with director...

Spoilers for "Killers of the Flower Moon" follow.

Martin Scorsese is the great American filmmaker of his generation — and I don't just mean in nationality. The American Dream underpins Scorsese's films, whether unfolding in his hometown of New York City or the Oklahoma plains like his latest, "Killers of the Flower Moon." Based on David Grann's non-fiction novel, the film is set in 1920s Osage County, Oklahoma. The indigenous Osage tribe came into wealth upon discovering oil on their land — so white settlers murdered them to steal it. While ringleaders William King Hale (Robert De Niro) and Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) were prosecuted, they avoided life in prison. Mollie Burkhart (Lily Gladstone), Ernest's wife and poisoning victim, dies at the age of 50 without her family, while the Osage's wealth dries up. It's hardly a victory for justice, even if the tribe refuses to be forgotten by history.

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Robert De Niro will be doing an Uber U.K. ad campaign, but it will not be tied to his memorable Taxi Driver role.

Reports earlier this week in U.K. tabloid The Sun suggested that the Oscar-winning actor would be bringing one of his most memorable roles, Travis Bickle, to the commercial space. The ads were allegedly set to feature the actor uttering the famous line, “You talkin’ to me?”

The actor’s rep Stan Rosenfield denied that De Niro would be uttering the well-known phrase, and, in a statement, told The Hollywood Reporter that “De Niro’s Uber commercial has nothing to do with his Taxi Driver character.”

The campaign is currently filming in London and is slated to launch sometime later this year, Uber told THR.

News that De Niro could possibly reprise his Taxi Driver role for Uber ads caught the attention of the movie’s writer,...

Taxi Driver scribe Paul Schrader was clearly not thrilled about the recent reports of the film's lead character returning for an Uber ad campaign, so he should be relieved by a new update on the story.

On Facebook, Schrader shared an article responding to recent reports of Robert De Niro reprising his Taxi Driver role as Travis Bickle for a series of promos for Uber. According to the original report, published by The Sun, De Niro was set to be utilizing some of the character's famous lines for the ad, which includes the often-quoted phrase, "You talkin' to me?" Reacting to the reports, Schrader said, "Ouch. Why Bob would do this is beyond my reckoning. But I haven't seen it. If I'm lucky I never will."

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Jeff Wells sent this. Ouch. Why Bob would do this is beyond my reckoning. But I haven't seen it.

“All the animals come out at night – whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.”

Taxi Driver will be showing for one week beginning Friday, April 29th at the Hi-Pointe Theater

Before I saw Taxi Driver in 1976 at age 15, I only watched horror films and comedies. Martin Scorsese’s 1976 masterpiece made me realize there were other types of movies out there and I became completely obsessed with the film. I saw Taxi Driver at theaters at least a dozen times in its initial run and remember riding my bike to see it at the Kirkwood Cinema five nights in row. I had the poster on my wall and would play the soundtrack LP over and over, memorizing the (cleaned-up) dialog. I actually went to High School dressed like Travis Bickle in a green army...

Cinema Retro has received the following press release from the Tribeca Film Festival.

New York, NY – March 18, 2016 – The Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), presented by At&T, announced today that Martin Scorsese’s powerful psychological thriller Taxi Driver will celebrate its 40th Anniversary on April 21 at the 15th edition of the Festival. Starring Robert DeNiro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle, and Cybill Shepherd, Directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader and produced by Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips, the 1976 film was nominated for four Academy Awards®, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Robert De Niro; and two Golden Globes. One of Time Magazines “all-time 100 Movies,” Taxi Driver was called “a brilliant nightmare,” by the Chicago Sun-Times and praised by the Village Voice as “a phenomenon from another day and age.”

Following the anniversary screening at the Beacon Theatre, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd,...

The Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), presented by At&T, announced today that Martin Scorsese’s powerful psychological thriller Taxi Driver will celebrate its 40th Anniversary on April 21 at the 15th edition of the Festival. Starring Robert DeNiro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle, and Cybill Shepherd, Directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Paul Schrader and produced by Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips, the 1976 film was nominated for four Academy Awards®, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Robert De Niro; and two Golden Globes. One of Time Magazines “all-time 100 Movies,” Taxi Driver was called “a brilliant nightmare,” by the Chicago Sun-Times and praised by the Village Voice as “a phenomenon from another day and age.”

Following the anniversary screening at the Beacon Theatre, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, and Paul Schrader will take part in a special conversation moderated by Kent Jones. Tickets will...

"You talkin' to me?"

It's the 40th anniversary of "Taxi Driver" (released on February 8, 1976), the movie that gave Robert De Niro his most famous line, put Martin Scorsese on the map, proved that the pre-teen Jodie Foster was an Oscar-worthy thespian, and (most notoriously) was cited by John Hinckley as an inspiration for his assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.

In honor of the film's anniversary, here are 25 things you need to know about how Travis Bickle came to be.

1. The script, by Paul Schrader (pictured, left), was semi-autobiographical. After a divorce and a break-up with a girlfriend, he wrote the movie while living in his car, feeling suicidal, obsessing about guns and pornography, and having spoken to no one for weeks. As he recalled in 2013, "Taxi Driver" was "an exorcism through art," and it worked.

2. Martin Scorsese saw the script as early as 1972, but didn't yet have the clout to make it,...

Leonard Harris, known in the New York area as an arts and theater critic for the local CBS television affiliate in the '60s and early '70s, died of pneumonia in Hartford, Conn., on Sunday. Harris was 81. Outside of New York, Harris was known for his role as Senator Charles Palantine in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976). In the Oscar-nominated drama, Palantine is running for president on a platform of radical social change, at one point sympathizing with Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), a mentally unbalanced taxi driver-turned-vigilante who wants to rid New York of its "scum and filth." The eventual results aren't pretty. Palantine is also the link between Bickle and the senator's presidential campaign worker Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), a classy-looking blonde with whom Bickle becomes obsessed. According to Harris' New York Times obit, Scorsese knew Harris "through the New York drama scene." Harris played another politician, a mayor,...

In a follow-up to his 2003 documentary The Five Obstructions, which saw controversial director Lars von Trier teaming up with J&#248rgen Leth to revisit Leth's short film The Perfect Human, von Trier will now team-up with Martin Scorsese to revisit that director's seminal classic Taxi Driver.

The purpose of The Five Obstructions is to force a director to look at one of his earliest films, and remake it five times, while Lars von Trier throws certain 'obstructions' in the way. Obstacles that will greatly change the film, and the way the director thinks about plot, story structure, characterization, location, and other elements that go into making a masterpiece of cinema.

The Five Obstructions: Taxi Driver will ask Martin Scorsese to revisit one of his first great achievements five different times, while Lars von Trier studies the different outcomes. Additional details of the film have not been disclosed at this time,...

The 1976 classic Taxi Driver will be released on Blu-ray on April 5. The new Blu-ray edition will be priced at $24.95 and you can take a look at the cover art and the special features below.

Paul Schrader's gritty screenplay depicts the ever-deepening alienation of Vietnam Veteran Travis Bickle, a psychotic cab driver who obsessively cruises the mean streets of Manhattan. Robert De Niro stars with Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, and Albert Brooks in the all-too-real story of a psychotic New York cabby who is driven to violence in an attempt to rescue a teenage prostitute.

Special Features:

movieIQOriginal 1986 Commentary with Director Martin Scorsese and Writer Paul Schrader recorded by The Criterion CollectionInteractive Script to ScreenFeature Length Commentary by Writer Paul SchraderFeature Length Commentary by Professor Robert KolkerMartin Scorsese on Taxi DriverGod's Lonely ManProducing Taxi DriverInfluence and Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese TributeTaxi Driver StoriesMaking Taxi DriverTravis' New...