Nominated for 4 Oscars — Robert De Niro, Best Actor; Jodie Foster, Best Supporting Actress; Bernard Herrmann, Best Original Score; and Best Picture — Taxi Driver of course won nothing the year Rocky was the movie you feel. A rare disconnect when Best Director and Best Picture nominations only matched for 3 films (Alan J. Pakula, Sidney Lumet — and winner John G. Avildsen), Ingmar Bergman and Lina Wertmuller were the directors whose movies didn’t make the cut. Imagine being an Oscarwatcher in 1976! The ARPANET must’ve exploded! Taxi Driver won the Palm d’Or in Cannes.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has given Taxi Driver a 4K digital restoration and it’s screening at the Berlin Film Festival this week. The DVD and Blu-ray will be released 6 weeks from now, April 5, and the best news of all — they’ve licensed the original Martin Scorsese-Paul Schrader commentary track from the Criterion laserdisc, inaccessible since the early ’90s! More details about the special features from blu-ray.com, after the cut.
Special features include:
- Commentaries:
- Director Martin Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader (recorded in 1986 by The Criterion Collection)
- Paul Schrader
- Professor Robert Kolker
- Interactive Script to Screen
- Martin Scorsese on Taxi Driver
- God’s Lonely Man
- Producing Taxi Driver
- Influence and Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
- Taxi Driver Stories
- Making Taxi Driver
- Travis’ New York
- Travis’ New York Locations
- Storyboard to Film Comparisons with Martin Scorsese
- Animated Photo Galleries
- movieIQ
