Martin ScorseseAn Intense Dude The great movie critic Roger Ebert said that director Martin Scorsese was "one of the most intense people I'd ever known" (source). (Scorsese's still very much alive...

Paul SchraderScreenwriter in the Hands of an Angry God Paul Schrader never saw a movie until he was seventeen. He grew up in a family that was fairly strict—they were devout Calvinists, a fact th...

Columbia PicturesPower Couple Sometimes, the highest compliment you can pay a movie production company might be, "They stayed out of the way." Basically, that's what Columbia Pictures did during th...

Cutting through Ceilings, Desaturating BloodMartin Scorsese went all out in directing the visual style of Taxi Driver. At one point, he and the crew took three weeks just to prepare the long tracki...

Sexy Sax… Hiding Madness Bernard Hermann's score for Taxi Driver is weirdly romantic. It sounds kind of like Charles Mingus' jazz album, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, with lots of sex...

Taxi Driver is a favorite of movie lovers, casual movie fans, and crazy people. The story of a guy who wants to eliminate all the "scum" from the city, and embarks on a scheme of violent self-devel...