Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has officially announced
Taxi Driver for Blu-ray release on April 5, in a 35th Anniversary edition. This gritty urban drama, written by Paul Schrader, directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro as a man driven to violence by loneliness and desperation, won the 1976 Palme d'Or at Cannes and was nominated to four Academy Awards. In a welcome initiative, SPHE has licensed the use of the original Scorsese/Schrader audio commentary previously only available on the Laserdisc.
As previously reported (see Blu-ray.com,
January 27), the film has received a 4K digital restoration from the original negative, which will be presented and screened at the Berlin Film Festival this week.
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