Taxi Driver (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)

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Is Travis Bickle a post-Vietnam Holden Caulfield?

"God's Lonely Man" As Psychopath - Surprisingly Empathetic

A movie that needs to be EXPERIENCED more than just watched

The Special Edition that this film so richly deserves.

The gradual erosion of a human being

Taxi Driver (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Starring: Robert De Niro , Jodie Foster , and Cybill Shepherd
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ASIN: B000R8YC18
Release Date: 2007-08-14

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At 26, Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) is slipping slowly into isolation and violence on the streets of New York City. Trying to solve his insomnia by driving a yellow cab on the night shift, he grows increasingly disgusted by the people who hang out at night: "Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets." His touching attempts to woo Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), a Senator's campaign worker, turn sour when he takes her to a porn movie on their first date. He even fails in his attempt to persuade child prostitute Iris (Jodie Foster) to desert her pimp Sport (Harvey Keitel) and return to her parents and school. Driven to the edge by powerlessness, he buys four handguns and sets out to assassinate the Senator, heading for the infamy of a `lone crazed gunman'.

DVD BONUS FEATURES INCLUDE:

"Martin Scorsese on Taxi Driver" Featurette

"Producing Taxi Driver" Featurette

"Influence and Appreciation" Documentary

Robert De Niro, Oliver Stone, Roger Corman and others pay tribute to Scorsese and the film

"God's Lonely Man" Documentary

"Travis' New York Locations" Featurette

Storyboard to Film Comparisons with Martin Scorsese Introduction

New Feature-length Commentary by Writer Paul Schrader

New Feature-length Commentary by Professor Robert Kolker

"Taxi Driver Stories" Featurette

"Making Taxi Driver" Documentary

Animated Photo Galleries

"Including Scorsese at Work" Photo Montage

Original Screenplay Read Along

Customer Reviews:

Is Travis Bickle a post-Vietnam Holden Caulfield?.......2007-09-10

Travis Bickle - the "Taxi Driver" in the film - is not so much a psychopath but someone who is mentally ill. He struggles to relate and connect with other people, slowly becomes detached from reality, indulges in inappropriate behaviour, and has a naive sense of what is right and wrong.

The loneliness and disconnection of Bickle has echoes in the character of Holden Caulfield in "The Catcher in the Rye" who likewise drifts around New York City searching for some kind of meaning.

The ending always seemed a little strange until one accepts it as a fantasy of Bickles deranged mind.

"Taxi Driver" remains a powerful and disturbing film even after all these years despite far more graphic films because the characters are so believable.

A great film from the great Martin Scorsese.

"God's Lonely Man" As Psychopath - Surprisingly Empathetic.......2007-09-05

The thing that haunts "Taxi Driver," even after all these years, is how connected a lot of the viewers feel with Travis Bickle, Vietnam veteran and burgeoning psychopath. Is he really as different as we want him to be, or is he closer to who "we" are than we like?

The '70s, for all the talk of it being a cultural wasteland, was a wonderful time if you're a fan of movies. The angst of Vietnam created a lot of worthy dramas and comedies. Most of them were very grim, bitter, angry, and disillusioned, but then these qualities make for some fine reflection on the human condition. As did the setting of the movie, which was New York. I was a boy at the time, but my parents let me watch the news, as well as the TV of the era, and New York was a schizoid wonderland of success, excess, and the multiblock whore-with-a-heart-of-gold known as Times Square. DeNiro's unraveling character is most at-home here, surrounded by people (the "scum" he hates so much, ironically) yet apart from them, without the first clue how to connect with him. Is there anything more scary, with all the examples in the movie of Travis' decent into madness, than his perfectly-reasoned decision to take his "angel" on a date to a porno theater?

Robert DeNiro, already a veteran or soon-to-be-star of many classics of the period, owns Bickles' troubled soul and is thoroughly believable of a failed "hero." Its not so strange that the only time someone else truly connects with him is when they both have a sense of violent helplessness of their own situations, namely the grocer Travis saves by blowing the would-be robber of his store's brains out.

Martin Scorcese is also able to showcase what would be his greatest directorial skill in the low-budget limitation of the movie. He is able to allow us to see the reality of Travis' world with the sensitive eye of a documentarian. The city, the streets, and all who walked them are seen at eye level, at once intimately close and ephermerally fleeting as the cab drives through early-morning Manhattan. He even gets to show up in the film in at least two cameos - once just as a passerby, the other as a passenger in Travis' taxi who himself is slowly unravelling mentally because his wife is cheating on him.

The unsettling tale of one man's collapse into psychosis is made human and connectable to the audience thanks to Paul Shrader's(sp?) wonderful script. None of the events in his life that inspired the story, mentioned extensively in the truly-worthy new and old DVD extras, make it into the movie, but the important issue - the lonliness we all feel and have to deal with - does. Travis may be losing his mind and heading for a nuclear-sized explosion, but we can relate to him by how alone he feels.

Shrader calls the cab in the movie "a rolling metal coffin." It's an appropriate metaphor. Because in the two-perspective ending, we have to wonder if Travis has found the misplaced justification he was looking for when he murders a bunch of lowlives to save a child prostitute - soon after a failed assassination attempt on presidential candidate Pallentine! - from society, or is he simply in his own personal Heaven; we don't see Travis' reflection in the rear-view mirror of his taxi when he adjusts it.

Leonard Maltin's video guide slams this film as excessive, overrated and violent. He needs to give it another look. "Taxi Driver" is truly a masterpiece of talent and craftsmenship.

A movie that needs to be EXPERIENCED more than just watched.......2007-08-18

One of the best movies of all time. There's a short list of movies one needs to experience more than just watch and this is one of them. I'd throw The Godfather DVD Collection (The Godfather/ The Godfather - Part II/ The Godfather - Part III), Citizen Kane, and Vertigo (Collector's Edition) on that list.

A really effective movie that gets you to contemplate your own surroundings. Nothing is it at rest here and Scorsese and De Niro really bring this character to screen, especially De Niro. You can't even consider him a "character" after watching De Niro's brilliant performance as Travis Bickle.

The extras on this disc are amazing also. Two commentaries and plenty of featurettes. Finally, a fit version for this masterpiece of a movie.

One of the best character studies of all time. Highly recommend.

The Special Edition that this film so richly deserves........2007-08-15

The first disc features an audio commentary by Professor Robert Kolker. He analyzes the film's style and themes but tends to describe what we are seeing making obvious statements. He talks about the influence of Alfred Hitchcock's movies on Taxi Driver but in mind-numbingly boring way.

The second commentary is by the film's screenwriter Paul Schrader. He points out Travis' contradictory nature - he talks about purifying his body yet he also takes speed. There are several lulls during this commentary but he more than makes up for it with some excellent observations about the film and the nature of screenwriting.

"Original Screenplay" allows you to read the original shooting script and then go to the corresponding scene in the film.

The second disc starts off with "Martin Scorsese on Taxi Driver." He talks about the genesis of the film and how hard it was to get a studio interested. Scorsese says that visually, everything is from Travis' point-of-view.

"Producing Taxi Driver" features Michael Phillips briefly discussing how he became a producer and how he got the script for Taxi Driver. When he saw Mean Streets, he knew that he wanted Scorsese to direct and Robert De Niro to star.

"God's Lonely Man" examines the theme of loneliness in the film and profiles Schrader, his background and it informed the script.

"Influence and Appreciation: Martin Scorsese Tribute" features fellow filmmakers Roger Corman and Oliver Stone along with actor Robert De Niro and others paying tribute to the man.

"Taxi Driver Stories" includes anecdotes told by actual New York cabbies who worked in the city during the `70s. Some of their stories are wilder than some that are in the film.

"Making Taxi Driver" is the excellent 70 minute retrospective documentary that was included on the previous edition. It takes a fascinating, in-depth look at how the film came together with most of the major cast and crew members returning, including De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd and Albert Brooks. This is excellent doc. with loads of information.

"Travis' New York" reflects on New York City of the `70s. The film's director of photography Michael Chapman points out that now the film is a documentary of what the city looked like back then.

"Travis' New York Locations" is a very cool featurette that compares nine locations used in the movie then with what they look like now and not surprisingly most them look very different.

There is a "Storyboard to Film Comparison" with an optional introduction by Scorsese.

Finally, there are several galleries with stills taken on location, for publicity purposes, shots of composer Bernard Herrmann's sheets music for the score and posters.

The gradual erosion of a human being.......2007-08-15

I didn't see this movie until thirty years after it's release, but that's fine by me. I don't think I could have handled it in my teens or even my twenties.

DeNiro is wonderful as Travis Bickle. The world has already worn at him, and we see it wearing at him further at each stage of the movie. When he tells the Presidential Candidate that the whole city needs to be cleaned up, we feel his emotion.

The one bright point of his life seemed to be the character played by Cybill Shepherd. This is the part that got me out of my chair. When he convinced her to go to a movie with him and then took her to a porno film, I said "What was he thinking?" Then it hit me - he isn't thinking the way I think. This man thinks on a parallel plane to the rest of the society he sees. And even that type of thinking devolves into a form of psychosis as the film progresses.

One more point. Other reviewers have seen DeNiro's character as a vigilante who got fed up with the scum pushers and pimps. I will only buy that to a point. Remember, this is a guy who armed himself to the teeth, practiced dry-firing his guns at the television and was set on assasination. There was as much trouble inside him as there was on the streets he loathed so much.

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Questioning the nature of good and evil
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Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)
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ASIN: 0767830555
Release Date: 1999-06-15

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Taxi Driver is the definitive cinematic portrait of loneliness and alienation manifested as violence. It is as if director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader had tapped into precisely the same source of psychological inspiration ("I just knew I had to make this film," Scorsese would later say), combined with a perfectly timed post-Watergate expression of personal, political, and societal anxiety. Robert De Niro, as the tortured, ex-Marine cab driver Travis Bickle, made movie history with his chilling performance as one of the most memorably intense and vividly realized characters ever committed to film. Bickle is a self-appointed vigilante who views his urban beat as an intolerable cesspool of blighted humanity. He plays guardian angel for a young prostitute (Jodie Foster), but not without violently devastating consequences. This masterpiece, which is not for all tastes, is sure to horrify some viewers, but few could deny the film's lasting power and importance. --Jeff Shannon

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perfect.......2007-06-19

Every aspect of this movie is exceptional.

One Of The Great Ones.......2007-06-05

I have enjoyed a 30 year affair with this film. I watched it again last night and it just keeps getting better. The screenplay is exceptional, the cast flawless, the direction is perfect and it has a world class original score. I have seen it over 100 times by now and it never gets old. It may be the best film depiction of what it must feel like to deteriorate into a paranoid, psychotic state. If you have never seen it and can manage its dark content, it should be on your must see list. Hard to believe that it lost "Best Picture" to Rocky in 1976!

Questioning the nature of good and evil.......2007-04-27

Viewing "Taxi Driver" for the first time recently I'm struck by the feeling that I'm seeing it out of context, and that it suffers by my comparison of it to more recent films rather than films that were its contemporaries. While "Taxi Driver" is a societal-cultural touchstone I never felt compelled to see it and having seen it now doubt I would rush back to see it again. That's not to say it's a bad film, but it is difficult viewing. Director Martin Scorsese certainly captures the nihilism, ambivalence, angst, dislocation, and malaise of the 1970s to a tee. Having grown up in that era, I remember that all too well, and in that respect "Taxi Driver" is a depressing drive down a memory lane I'd rather avoid. The characters also lack nuance or much depth: DeNiro's Travis Bickle is a stereotypical "damaged goods" Vietnam veteran (which I found profoundly insulting), Peter Boyle's Wizard is a hard-boiled, heat-packing NYC cabbie, Jodie Foster is an equally stereotyped drugged out/addled prostitute, and Harvey Kietel's pimp/hustler borders on an ugly ethnic stereotype you'd only find in a movie of this vintage. All border on two-dimensional caricatures and are almost over-the-top.

The thing that bothered me most (and perhaps that was Scorsese's intent) is the amoral ambivalence Scorsese presents here. Politicians are bland and interchangeable, uttering empty platitudes, government is the problem and the solution, Travis is a psycho and a hero. The movie is fairly drenched in shades of gray rather than the moral certainties of black and white - and perhaps that's Scorsese's intention. "Taxi Driver" was a departure from the Hollywood oeuvre that came before it with obvious heroes and villains. The end result is a movie that unsettles and causes us to question the nature of good and evil.

While "taxi Driver" is not a movie I'd care to see again anytime soon please don't misconstrue that to mean I didn't think it is not worth seeing, because everyone should see it. Out of context "Taxi Driver" is hard to sort out and feels more like camp or a send up of the whole 1970s genre of gratuitously violent films. "Taxi Driver" is far deeper than that as Scorsese forces us to move beyond our Manichean obsessions over the concepts of good and evil.

Never gets old........2007-04-12

One of my favorite films. Movie awesome; Scorsese awesome; DeNiro awesome. Everything about the movie...awesome. Other than the movie itself, the DVD extras are pretty interesting. I'm a movie buff, or a dork, so I like to watch the extras. The interviews were fun and learning about DeNiro's dedication to this movie and other movies was pretty cool.

You Talking To Me?!.......2007-03-19

This is my favorite movie of all time. Favorite Actor. Favorite Director. Great Score. New York City when it was N.Y.C. This film historically speaking is an archival documentary of a bygone era when neighborhoods like Clinton were known as Hell's Kitchen and the East Village was Alphabet City.
The main character, Travis Bickle is a lonely out of place Marine Vietnam Vet suffering from post-tramatic stress. He is the hero in the form of an isolated individual, running, running, always running. It is Robert DeNiro's finest performance.
The film also co-stars Harvey Keital as "Sport", a low level street pimp, the type you would like to punch but yet the best character in this film is not the late Peter Boyle as "The Wizard" or the sneak cameo appearance by Martin Scorsese himself but of "Handy Andy" the Traveling Salesman who pitches his salesman routine exquisively.
There has been talk about the making of a "Taxi Driver" Part II although I couldn't figure out how such a plot would be but if they ever decide to make one I would like to see it done soon especially these days as I stroll down 42nd Street wondering if perhaps the Broadway Nights of the New Times Square will bring back the Ghosts of Hell's Kitchen.

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Taxi - The Complete First Season
Starring: Carol Kane
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ASIN: B0002NY8R6
Release Date: 2004-10-12

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Hail, Taxi. It's great to finally have one of the defining sitcoms of the 1970s available on DVD to take out for a spin. This character-driven humane comedy from the creators of The Mary Tyler Moore Show rolled out of the garage with a full tank of gas: a lightning-in-a-bottle ensemble, smart, witty, and compassionate writing, and extraordinary characters. The Sunshine Cab Company was a much grittier workplace than the sunny WJM newsroom. Its down, but never out employees--single mother Elaine (Marilu Henner), aspiring actor Bobby (Jeff Conaway), hapless boxer Tony (Tony Danza), reptilian dispatcher Louis (Danny DeVito), naive rube John (Randall Carver), and indeterminately foreign mechanic Latka (comic iconoclast Andy Kaufman)--struggled to keep rolling along. Judd Hirsch's salt-of-the-earth cabbie Alex Rieger solved everyone's problems but his own. Half hours don't get more moving than the Humanitas Prize-winning episode, "Blind Date," in which Alex tries to befriend an embittered overweight woman, or funnier than "High School Reunion," in which Bobby impersonates Louie at Louie's reunion to impress his mean former classmates.

Along for the ride in this Emmy-winning first season are a pre-MagnumTom Selleck and Mandy Patinkin ("Memories of Cab 804") and life force Ruth Gordon, who was honored with an Emmy for her performance as one of Alex's most memorable fares ("Sugar Mama"). The poignant episode "Paper Marriage" features Christopher Lloyd as burn-out Reverend Jim, who would join the ensemble in season 2. Regrettably, this three-disc set is a stripped down model, with no commentary or interviews. But there is nothing hack about Taxi itself. This is "must-own" television fare. --Donald Liebenson

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Set in New York City, TAXI follows a group of cab drivers of the Sunshine Cab Company through the daily but far from ordinary routine as cabbies. The sitcom features a multitude of extroverted persons such as a frustrated actor, strained boxer, ex-hippie and cynical dispatcher.

Customer Reviews:

cheaper at.......2007-08-27

Last I saw...Taxi season 1 was about $20 (in-store) at some place called wal-mart because of something to do with an Emmy sale or something like that.

Best Comedy Ever.......2007-06-30

Most TV shows take a while to get going. In some cases it takes a few episodes to introduce the characters and really get interesting. Some shows don't really hit their stride until the second season, but this show was funny from the first episode.

The first season didn't include a bad episode, and did include some classic shows. My personal favorite was the episode where Elaine had to leave town, and left her son with the cabbies. They took turns taking care of him, and then showed up to cheer him on at his spelling bee. Louie was in top form, calling the other kids "losers" and trying to bet on the outcome of the spelling bee.

The only negative comment I have on this set is that there was no bonus material at all. If you love to laugh and missed this show when it was on, or would like to see the shows again, you should buy it today.

Taxi - The Complete First Season is a winner.......2007-03-26

This show is a classic comedy series. The characters and situations are hilarious.

If you enjoy a good laugh then you will want this DVD set.

Keep The Meter Running.......2007-02-12

It is my constant misfortune to begin following a television show toward the conclusion of its network run. TAXI was one of those great series that I belatedly watched during its fifth season only a few weeks before it was announced that the show was canceled. Fortunately the series went into immediate syndication and I was able to recapture all of the episodes on local television channels.

Judd Hirsch leads the cast as cab driver Alex Reiger. Reiger is the only employee at Sunshine Cab whose full time profession is as a cab driver. He is also a father figure to the other cabbies. Danny DeVito is Louie DePalma, a modern day Italian-American Ebenezer Scrooge. DePalma's penny pinching and inflamatory remarks are the driving forces behind most of the stories. The other stand out is Andy Kaufman as Latka. The part was specially created for Kaufman and his "Foreign Man" routine. Kaufman reportedly scoffed at the idea of appearing in a weekly situation comedy, but was convinced by his ever-wise agent that it made good professional, as well as financial, sense to do so. Years later Kaufman tired of Latka and insisted on the opportunity to play his role differently. By the fifth season his character was nothing more than a nostalgic backdrop. However, in season one his presence is fresh and entertaining.

TAXI is one of the few television series where you could virtually mix and match most of the episodes and not feel that you lost continuity. The very first episode, "Like Father, Like Daughter," is a volume you might actually expect to see further in the series. Indeed, with the exception of a few introductory moments at the beginning of this episode when Elaine joins Sunshine Cab for the first time, this show could well have appeared in later seasons.

The solitary shortcoming of the first season is, with the exception of one appearance as Reverand Jim, Christopher Lloyd is missing. At the end of the first season Randall Carver, who played John Burns, was dropped in favor of Lloyd's more excentric alterego Jim Ignatowski. Carver did a credible job as John, but his character always played second fiddle to Alex, Bobby, Elaine, Tony, and Latka. In viewing the first season on DVD there are coincidental hints that John's days at Sunshine Cab were numbered. Though it is doubtful that the writers had John's departure in mind, in TAXI episodes John precariously balances full time school, his marriage, and is constantly berated by Louie for his poor bookings.

TAXI premiered on ABC in September 1978. At this time half-hour television sitcoms averaged 22 episodes per season and TAXI has exactly that number. Compare that to television series of the mid 1960s where 32 to 34 shows per season were the norm. My only regret here is that I exhausted my 22-episode DVD set all too quickly.

There are no special features in the season one set. The picture is very high quality and gives me the feeling that I am watching every episode for the very first time. Next up: Season Two.

great service.......2007-01-11

I was extremely pleased with how promptly I received this tape and the condition it was in when I received it. I would do business with this person again.

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Oldie but Goodie
Another winning season!
Just what Dad wanted
Jim's presence made the show a hit!
I have ALWAYS Loved "TAXI"...

Taxi - The Complete Second Season
Starring: Carol Kane
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Release Date: 2005-02-01

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Oldie but Goodie.......2007-07-27

If you're looking for some laughs from the past, this would be great for your collection. Our favorite is the Driver's Exam episode. It will have you laughing for days! Worth the purchase. They don't make them like this anymore.

Another winning season!.......2007-03-26

This is another great season of this classic comedy series. Louie De Palma is the man you love to hate. Louie's rants at Latka are hilarious.

If you enjoy a good laugh then you will want this DVD set.

Just what Dad wanted.......2007-01-10

What do you get the man who has everything? Taxi! This is a wonderful show - I remember hearing my parents laugh at it when I was a kid. Dad's already watched his favorite episode - Reverend Jim's driver's test - several times. You can't go wrong with this.

Jim's presence made the show a hit!.......2007-01-06

You are either a fan of the show or you aren't. Once Jim made his presence known on the show, it made the show a smash hit. Everyone had their unique qualities but Jim was always good for a laugh. Jim, Louie, and Alex were the show. Everyone else was an extra.

I have ALWAYS Loved "TAXI"..........2006-11-10

If you are a "TAXI" lover, this collection is a MUST. The very best scenes with Louie (Danny De Vito), Latke Gravis (Andy Kaufman), Reverend Jim (Christopher Lloyd), Alex (Judd Hirsch), and Mary Lou Henner's "Elaine" are all included in this collection. BUY THIS DVD COLLECTION - too good to pass up!

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Rest of Series
Gary Hoyt
Where's Season 4 and 5
"Taxi" is just great!...
In the name of Latka - Where is season 4?

Taxi - The Complete Third Season
Starring: Carol Kane
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ASIN: B000A0GOP0
Release Date: 2005-09-13

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From the melancholy opening notes of the theme song, Taxi promised to be a different kind of sitcom, epitomized by the show's central character, Alex Reiger (Judd Hirsch, Ordinary People): down to earth and compassionate, with neuroses that smacked of real life and not the forced zaniness of too many television shows. Alex was the conscience and emotional caretaker of a makeshift family of cab drivers working out of a grungy garage in New York City, run by the domineering Louis De Palma (Danny DeVito, who would go on to be a bigger star than the rest of the cast in movies like Get Shorty and Batman Returns). Taxi didn't always maintain a degree of realism--if you haven't seen it in a long time, you may be surprised by some of the cornier jokes and bits of slapstick--but at its best, the show managed to merge sadness and humor into rich and satisfying stories.

The third season has many standout episodes. Alex learns that his daughter is getting married but hasn't invited him to the wedding, which leads to a surprisingly sparky confrontation with his ex-wife (guest start Louise Lasser, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman). When single mom Elaine (Marilu Henner) is embarrassed by meeting a more successful high-school friend in her cab, she lies to save face and Alex steps in to back her up. Aspiring boxer Tony (Tony Danza, Who's the Boss?) can't decide how to tell Elaine that her new boyfriend made a pass at him. Tony's sister (guest star Julie Kavner, the voice of Marge on The Simpsons) falls in love with the addled but affable Jim (Christopher Lloyd, Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit), much to Tony's dismay. Also crucial to the show's success was the oddball presence of Andy Kaufman, whose quirky, unspecifically-Eastern-European mechanic Latka Gravas sometimes made an awkward fit with the rest of the ensemble. But even at his most eccentric, Kaufman was always weirdly watchable, especially in his bizarre, season-closing transformation into the loungy Vic Ferrari. All in all, the third season is an excellent sampling of this sterling sitcom. Sadly, there are no commentaries or other extras. --Bret Fetzer

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Rest of Series.......2007-07-31

I absolutely agree - this is one of the best comedies ever produced. Please bring us the rest of the series

Gary Hoyt.......2007-07-11

Hello Paramount....

WHERE IS SEASON 4 OF TAXI? DON'T YOU NEED THE REVENUE A FOURTH SEASON DISC WILL BRING? LETS GO!!

Where's Season 4 and 5.......2007-05-28

This is one of the 3 greatest television shows of all-time, along with Seinfeld and Cheers. But where is Season 4 and 5? Anybody here have any recent news on when they might be coming out? What can Taxi fans do to insure seasons 4 and 5 are released by Paramount?

"Taxi" is just great!..........2007-04-08

I love every season of "Taxi"! Somone in the forum below says that he found out season 4 is coming out in May! Has anyone else heard this? I can't find any proof of this anywhere!

In the name of Latka - Where is season 4?.......2007-03-26

The show continues firing on all comedy cylinders. The situations that the cast find themselves are hilarious comedy!

Please release season four of this classic American comedy series.

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Fun , Fun , Fun!
So, when are they going to release the last two seasons?
Great show - WORST DVDs
5 Stars for the Set but only ONE for the price!

Taxi - Seasons 1-3
Starring: Carol Kane
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ASIN: B000A0GOPK
Release Date: 2005-09-13

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This sitcom followed the life of a group of cabbies in New York. The group, employees of the Sunshine Cab Company, was made up a motley crew including Bobby (Jeff Conaway), a frustrated actor, Tony (Tony Danza), a struggling boxer, Louie (Danny DeVito), the tyranical dispatcher, and Reverend Jim (Christopher Lloyd), a spacey ex-hippie. The classic ensemble sitcom was hailed by critics and audiences alike after premiering on ABC Sept. 12, 1978. It's a vehicle with heart, as well as humor, and won three straight Emmys as Outstanding Comedy Series.

Customer Reviews:

Fun , Fun , Fun!.......2007-07-12

My most favorite TV sitcom.
I watch this series all the time to keep me happy.
I wish season 4 and 5 would become available soon.
Many of us are asking where the other season's are but it seems they do not want to put it out. I wonder why?

So, when are they going to release the last two seasons?.......2007-06-19

I feel stuck. I'm a completist so I really hate being stuck with an incomplete concept like, for instance, the entire 5 seasons of "Taxi".

Although, I don't really believe it, if this show wasn't selling well on DVD, perhaps they could release a "limited edition" double box of Seasons Four and Five at a price they'd believe could be reasonable, so that us true "Taxi" fans can complete our collection.

I'm beginning to become afraid to start buying any TV shows on DVD for fear that they may decide not to finish what they started.

I don't even see the first three seasons of "Taxi" at the store anymore so I'm beginning to wonder if it's truly over for "Taxi" on DVD.

C'mon Paramount. We are all starting to lose confidence in you. What can you do for us "Taxi" fans? Are you going to release the last two seasons, or should I just give up and just sell these first three season boxes and just forget about it? I don't want to be stuck with just a half of a collection.

Great show - WORST DVDs.......2007-05-08

Hey, want to make viewers unhappy? Sure, here's how - put previews for Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Mork and Mindy before you can get to the menu - no fast forward or skipping to title menu possible. Yes, 4 minutes of forced previews EVERY time you put a DVD in! This is a LONG time when you just want to pop in the DVD and see Jim ask "what does a yellow light mean?"

Why do DVD producers insist on forcing people to watch previews? We paid for the DVDs - can we watch them please?

PARAMOUNT is an idiotic company - whomever made this executive call. I am sorry I bought this set. I wouldn't buy Paramount DVDs in the future.

5 Stars for the Set but only ONE for the price!.......2005-12-13

I currently see prices on Amazon of $31.99 for Seasons one through 3 of Taxi.....this adds up to $95.97. Why this package is currently selling for $107.99 is beyond me. I am cognizant that Amazon changes prices from individual to individual (a little known secret), but the abyss between this package and the individual titles, with no apparent additions in DVD extras, is astounding. With the Seinfeld you get a puffy shirt or napkin holders from Monks coffee house; this package does not appear to offer anything extra.

The show gets 5 stars, but adding up the show with the value per dollar, I am forced to give this package 3 stars. Sad, because it is one of the greatest shows to ever grace television in my opinion.

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Taxi
WORST MOVIE EVER... ok maybe not, but still god-awful
"The Queen Is Back In This *SPEED CHASER*"
Taxi - Queen Latifah
Could've been better.

Taxi (Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Queen Latifah , Jimmy Fallon , Henry Simmons , Jennifer Esposito , and Gisele Bündchen
Director: Tim Story
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ASIN: B00005JN4H
Release Date: 2005-02-15

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Bumbling cop Washburn (Jimmy Fallon) is a terrible driver who loses his license and so recruits reluctant Belle (Queen Latifah) and her souped-up mega-cab after he stumbles onto a team of supermodel bank robbers. Several klutzy encounters and high-speed car chases ensue. If this sounds to you like the obvious result of a Hollywood pitch session ("Hey, let's pair some guy from Saturday Night Live with a tough-talking African-American and set them after babes on wheels!"), you're right; it doesn't mean, however, that you won't get in a few decent laughs before director Tim (Barbershop) Story's amiable time-killer falls into a steaming pile of would-be blockbuster buddy film cliches. The ever-ingratiating Latifah has long since proved her star charisma, and Fallon does an amusingly offhand parody of failed machismo. They're clearly having a good time together, and you could do worse than their company. There isn't a frame here that isn't cheaply recycled from some other lame action comedy, but if you grit your teeth for the very bumpy ride, you'll come out without too many scratches.--Steve Wiecking

Description

Sassy hip-hop star Queen Latifah brings hilarious attitude to this hard-driving, high-octane comedy action blast! Latifah plays Belle, New York's fastest cabbie, whose taxi-driving expertise - not to mention her loaded-to-the-max vehicle - comes in handy when a fumbling young undercover cop (Jimmy Fallon) must crack a bank robbery plot hatched by a gang of supermodels! Don't miss this tire-squealing, stop-on-a-dime comedy with a topflight cast of stars, including NYPD Blue's Henry Simmons, Ann-Margaret and supermodel Gisele Bundchen!

Customer Reviews:

Taxi.......2007-05-13

Great order and delivery service. Recieved the DVD in new and excellent condition. Thanks

WORST MOVIE EVER... ok maybe not, but still god-awful.......2007-04-01

Wow, histerical. Another black-meets-white comedy, full of ridiculously cliched jokes and plotlines. This movie is so lame, the writer should've punched himself in the face the moment he even considered it. Bang your head against a wall for 2 hours rather than subject yourself to this crapfest.

"The Queen Is Back In This *SPEED CHASER*".......2007-03-30

The Movie was okay it had it's moments. Could have been better though.

Taxi - Queen Latifah.......2006-11-10

This movie is such a hoot! The plot has several levels of insanity and all of them are delightful, with the solution to the "crime" a subtle, "only in NYC" surprise. The obligatory "chase" scene is hysterical. Queen Latifa and crew at their joyous best.

Could've been better........2006-06-16

Queen Latifa was great but Jimmy Fallon is an idot. His character was too hard to watch and was insulting to the audience and to police officers even though it's supposed to be a comedy.

See it but don't expect Jimmy Fallon to win any awards, except for maybe the stupid award.

Average customer rating:

Two For The Road...Stand The Test Of Time

Taxi Driver / Easy Rider
Starring: Luana Anders , Luke Askew , Robert Ball , Tita Colorado , and Warren Finnerty
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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ASIN: B0002IQNT2
Release Date: 2004-09-28

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Two For The Road...Stand The Test Of Time.......2006-05-06

Why these two films are packaged together, I'm not really sure. I do know that these are two of the great films that define fine filmmaking, and that will forever stand the test of time.But why look a gift horse in the mouth, right? A package of classics that should be scooped up while the price is still right.

Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jody Foster and Harvey Keitel show us early on their special gifts to cinema, along with screenwriter Paul Schrader.Taxi Driver is the tale of Travis Bickle(De Niro), a lonely man,who drives a cab through the nighttime streets of New York. Although he is all but invisible to those around him, he witnesses all the disturbing events going on in the city.

Travis is not just lonely. He is obsessive and psychotic, and we slowly sees these traits arise in him through the film.
First he becomes obsessed with the beautiful Betsy(Cybill Shepherd) a campaign worker for a presidential hopeful, only to be rejected by her, and Travis goes after the candidate. He then turns his attentions to the 12 year old Iris(Foster), a prostitute working for a pimp named Sport (Keitel). He tries desperately to save her from the streets and herself and when she doesn't respond he becomes extremely violent.

Throughout the story we see Travis' descent into his psychotic behavior. De Niro really is superb at this. We first see it in his eyes,at one point he even talks to another cab driver(Peter Boyle) about the feelings he has. He then purchases weapons, and prepares for battle like a warrior.
"You talkin to me?"...

"Easy Rider" is more than just a great film. It's an experience! Dennis Hopper who directed and co-wrote(with Peter Fonda and Terry Southern)preserved for us on film this time in history that has had a lasting cultural effect. His unique style of directing lets the viewer not just watch but experience the story from the free wheeling beginning, to the drug trips(don't worry, you won't have any flashbacks), to the devastating end.

The story takes place in the late 60's, during a time of radical cultural changes. Fonda and Hopper are motorcyclists, "long hairs", who having just scored big in the sale of drugs,are searching to be free from the everyday hang-ups of life. They are headed from Los Angeles to New Orleans, trying to make it to Mardi-Gras.Along the way they are met with the varied attitudes and life styles of those they encounter. Some just accept them for who they are, others openly show their hostility at what is different and unknown.

They are also joined by (in his breakthrough performance) the inimitable Jack Nicholson, who made me smile from the first frame he was in, all the way through. Jack plays an alcoholic lawyer who's looking for a little change in his life and joins the boys on their road trip.

So "trip" down memory lane, or experience this important film for the first time, to one of the greatest soundtracks put to film. The music includes Steppenwolf, The Birds, The Band, and The Jimmi Hendrix Experience.

The film was nominated for Best Screenplay(1969), Fonda, Hopper and Nicholson show us way back then why they were all destined to become the stars they are today. Also look for Karen Black as a New Orleans prostitute. It was brilliantly filmed and this widescreen edition brings every inch of scenery to you. It's a film well worth viewing and owning.

"They only wanted to be free..."

De Niro, Nicholson,Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper take to the road...enjoy the ride...Laurie

Taxicab Confessions: New York, New York Part 1

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Truthful Truth, Realistic Reality

Taxicab Confessions: New York, New York Part 1
Director: Joe Gantz , and Harry Gantz
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
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ASIN: B0006Z2NYK
Release Date: 2005-02-15

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Taxicab Confessions returns to its roots in New York City, with the 2005 premiere of Taxicab Confessions: New York, New York. Outrageous stories of life, love and loss are highlighted in this 11th installment of the popular late-night HBO America Undercover franchise. The franchise premiered in 1995 and was moved from New York to Las Vegas in 1998.

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Truthful Truth, Realistic Reality.......2006-01-14

I feel so alive when I listen to real people talking about real things. The lives of real people are more interesting than novels or movies.

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Taxi
WORST MOVIE EVER... ok maybe not, but still god-awful
"The Queen Is Back In This *SPEED CHASER*"
Taxi - Queen Latifah
Could've been better.

Taxi (Full Screen Edition)
Starring: Queen Latifah , Jimmy Fallon , Henry Simmons , Jennifer Esposito , and Gisele Bündchen
Director: Tim Story
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B00074CBIS
Release Date: 2005-02-15

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Description

Sassy hip-hop star Queen Latifah brings hilarious attitude to this hard-driving, high-octane comedy action blast! Latifah plays Belle, New York?s fastest cabbie, whose taxi-driving expertise ? not to mention her loaded-to-the-max vehicle ? comes in handy when a fumbling young undercover cop (Jimmy Fallon) must crack a bank robbery plot hatched by a gang of supermodels! Don?t miss this tire-squealing, stop-on-a-dime comedy with a topflight cast of stars, including NYPD Blue's Henry Simmons, Ann-Margaret and supermodel Gisele Bundchen!

Customer Reviews:

Taxi.......2007-05-13

Great order and delivery service. Recieved the DVD in new and excellent condition. Thanks

WORST MOVIE EVER... ok maybe not, but still god-awful.......2007-04-01

"The Queen Is Back In This *SPEED CHASER*".......2007-03-30

The Movie was okay it had it's moments. Could have been better though.

Taxi - Queen Latifah.......2006-11-10

Could've been better........2006-06-16

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