AFI Catalog of Feature Films
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Taxi Driver
Director: Martin Scorsese (Dir)
Release Date:   Feb 1976
Premiere Information:   New York opening: 7 Feb 1976; Los Angeles opening: 25 Feb 1976
Duration (in mins):   112
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Cast:   Robert DeNiro (Travis Bickle)  
    Jodie Foster (Iris )  
    Albert Brooks (Tom)  
    Harvey Keitel (Sport)  
    Leonard Harris (Charles Palantine)  
    Peter Boyle (Wizard)  
    Cybill Shepherd (Betsy)  
Production Company: Bill/Phillips Productions  
  Taxi Driver Productions  
Distribution Company: Columbia Pictures  
Director: Martin Scorsese (Dir)
Producer: Michael Phillips (Prod)
  Julia Phillips (Prod)
Writer: Paul Schrader (Wrt)
Photography: Michael Chapman (Dir of photog)
Art Direction: Charles Rosen (Art dir)
Film Editor: Marcia Lucas (Supv film ed)
  Tom Rolf (Film ed)
  Melvin Shapiro (Film ed)
Music: Bernard Herrmann (Mus)
MPAA Rating: R
Country: United States
Language: English
Copyright Claimant Copyright Date Copyright Number
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. 2/8/1976 dd/mm/yyyy LP45485
PCA NO: 24441
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Genre: Drama
Note: Taxi Driver was ranked 52nd on AFI's 2007 100 Years…100 Movies--10th Anniversary Edition list of the greatest American films, moving down from the 47th position it held on AFI's 1997 list. 
Bibliographic Sources:   Date   Page
Daily Variety   4 Feb 1976   p. 3.
Filmfacts   1976   pp. 1-6.
Los Angeles Times   22 Feb 1976   Section IV, p. 1.
Motion Picture Herald Product Digest   18 Feb 1976   p. 73.
New Republic   6 Mar 1976   pp. 18-19.
New York Times   8 Feb 1976   p. 36.
New York Times   15 Feb 1976   Section II, p.1.
New York Times   14 Mar 1976   Section II, p. 1.
New Yorker   9 Feb 1976   p. 82.
Newsweek   1 Mar 1976   pp. 82-83.
Saturday Review   6 Mar 1976   pp. 42-43.
Time   16 Feb 1976   pp. 62-63.
Variety   4 Feb 1976   p. 17.
Village Voice   16 Feb 1976   pp. 145-46.
Village Voice   5 Apr 1976   pp. 69-71.
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