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Article: Video: Taxi Driver (18) Columbia TriStar, retail, pounds 12.99, on rele ase.
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 24, 1997
- Author:
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Travis Bickle's digitally enhanced descent into madness is
re-released to coincide with the classic's 21st anniversary. A
rather redundant anniversary, since Martin Scorsese's coruscating
1976 movie came of age many years ago, attracting a moral panic in
the press and legions of pale cinematic imitators. So powerful was
Taxi Driver that it even spawned a Travis Bickle imitator in the
form of would-be assassin John Hinckley. In 1981, Hinckley tried to
shoot Reagan to ...
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