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New York, You've Changed: Taxi Driver (Part 2)

Nick Carr | Posted 10.07.2009 | New York

Read More: Jodie Foster, Architecture, Times Square, New York Pictures, Robert DeNiro, Scouting Ny, Taxi Driver, New York Developers, New York Streets, New York News
Nick Carr

When we last left off, Travis Bickle was cruising through Times Square. We then catch him uptown as he makes a drop off at the Hotel Olcott at 27 West 72nd Street.

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New York, You've Changed: Taxi Driver (Part 1)

Nick Carr | Posted 10.14.2009 | New York

Read More: Film Locations, New York Film, Film, Scouting Ny, Robert DeNiro, Travis Bickle, Movies, Taxi Driver, New York News
Nick Carr

Finding the locations used in Taxi Driver turned out to be incredibly difficult; the film documents a city that has since been demolished, rebuilt, spit-shined, and stamped with a seal of approval.

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Interview: Talking Obsessions with the Big Fan Guys

Marshall Fine | Posted 10.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Big Fan, New York Giants, The Onion, Taxi Driver, Robert Siegel Interview, Kevin Corrigan, Patton Oswalt Interview, Marshall Fine Interview, The King of Comedy, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

In Big Fan, which opened in limited release last week, Oswalt and Corrigan play a pair of Staten Island buddies who are obsessed with the New York Giants.

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Movie review: Big Fan

Marshall Fine | Posted 09.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Robert Siegel, Plaxico Burress, Big Fan Movie Review, New York Giants, Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle, Patton Oswalt, Marshall Fine Movie Review, King of Comedy, Rupert Pupkin, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Thanks to Patton Oswalt's soulful, sometimes dim, sometimes scabrous Paul, Big Fan plunges us into the world of the superfan in a unique way.

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Best New York Movies (SLIDESHOW, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Cara Parks | Posted 07.24.2009 | New York

Read More: New York Movies, Manhattan, King Kong, Do the Right Thing, When Harry Met Sally, Slidepoll, Superman, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Taking of Pelham 123, West Side Story, Shaft, Ghostbusters, The Godfather, Taxi Driver, Saturday Night Fever, Best Movies, New York News

Directors have struggled to capture the essence of New York City since the first talkie, The Jazz Singer, was set here in 1927. At turns romantic and ...

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Review: Observe and Report (2009)

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jody Hill, Entertainment, Reviews, Seth Rogen, Taxi Driver, Observe and Report, The Foot Fist Way, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Scott Mendelson, Movies, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

Observe and Report may be the smartest dumb comedy since Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle.

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Best Movies By Farr -- Celebrating Pacino and De Niro

John Farr | Posted 04.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Academy Awards, Goodfellas, Dog Day Afternoon, Part 2, Midnight Run, Mean Streets, Donnie Brasco, Martin Scorsese, Al Pacino, This Boy's Life, The Deer Hunter, Ronin, Carlito's Way, Francis Ford Coppola, The Untouchables, The Godfather, Righteous Kill, Taxi Driver, Heat, Angels in America, Sea of Love, Insomnia, Raging Bull, The Insider, Robert De Niro, Serpico, Entertainment News
John Farr

Ultimately, it's tough to call just who is the finer actor, or bigger star. Personally, I give the edge to De Niro.

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Best Movies By Farr: When Oscar Screws Up

John Farr | Posted 03.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Edward G. Robinson, The English Patient, The Exorcist, Tom Hanks, History of the Academy Awards, Julie Andrews, Milk, Fred MacMurray, John Wayne, The Wrestler Stanley Kubrick, As Good as It Gets, Capote, The Great Ziegfeld, Traffic, L.A. Confidential, Driving Miss Daisy, Dr. Strangelove, Fargo, High Noon, Million Dollar Baby, Joan Allen, My Left Foot, Around the World in Eighty Days, Slumdog Millionaire, The Academy Awards, The Sting, Rocky Balboa, Letters From Iwo Jima, Double Indemnity, Shirley MacLaine, Rex Harrison, Little Miss Sunshine, Ed Harris, Life Is Beautiful, Peter Finch, Shakespeare in Love, Charles Chaplin, James Dean, Giant, Crash, My Man Godfrey, Barbara Stanwyck, The Contender, Network, Imelda Staunton, Academy Awards, Titanic, Louis B. Mayer; Daryl Zanuck; Samuel L Goldwyn, Hotel Rwanda, The Apartment, The Departed, Peter Sellers, Pulp Fiction, Burt Lancaster, Gladiator, Vera Drake, Sean Penn, Modern Times, Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago, Field of Dreams, Billy Wilder, Pollock, Al Jolson, Forrest Gump, William Powell, John Travolta, Carole Lombard, Singin' in the Rain, Taxi Driver, Cecil B. DeMille, My Fair Lady, Jack Lemmon, The Searchers, The Hours, Robert De Niro, Entertainment News
John Farr

2005 -- for Best Picture, give me Capote over Crash any ol' time. Another uninspiring year, I thought.

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The Best Scorsese Movies by Farr

John Farr | Posted 12.25.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Scorsese Movies, Movies, Martin Scorsese, The Rolling Stones, Goodfellas, The King of Comedy, Mean Streets, Shine a Light Reviews, Bob Dylan: No Direction Home, Best Scorsese Films, Bob Dylan, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, The Departed, Taxi Driver, Scorsese Films, The Last Waltz, Shine a Light, The Band, Raging Bull, Video, Entertainment News
John Farr

More than any other director I can think of, Scorsese is totally, 100% committed to the art of cinema, the classic example of someone doing what he's best at and what he loves. This is a man gloriously consumed by film.

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