Frame by Frame

  Taxi Driver is just one of those magical movies that just seems to get almost everything right. Instead of feeling like the work of one or more creative visions, it blurs away the artifice of film-making to form the purest kind of cinema.  Schrader’s script is mortifyingly incisive, De Niro utterly disappears into its now legendary lead character, Bernard Herrmann’s (final) score ranks among the finest in film history, editor Thelma Schoonmaker makes it flow like a dream, DoP Michael Chapman shoots New York like a neon-dipped nightmare- and Scorsese’s once-in-a-lifetime direction elevates it to seamless transcendence.  To sum it up: Taxi Driver is one of the most profound works of art we have- and a one of a kind cinematic world I will love getting lost in for as long as I live...