"Hi everybody!" (in the voice of Dr. Nick Riviera)

Hi everybody!

I have severely neglected my cinephilia the past 6-12 months, and I am desperate for a structured means of re-invigorating interest in my number one passion. I received a book this past Christmas entitled "1001 Movies To See Before You Die". Sounds like something right up my Bucket-List alley. After some rough calculations and a quick assessment of my temperament, I deduced that it would be a futile endeavor. As my volatile nature would surely leave me at 8 movies viewed, bored, angry at the requirement and abandoning the project. After daily reading of Roger Ebert's home on the web (http://www.rogerebert.com), I've deduced that tackling Ebert's "Great Movies" list, at 334 titles, was a much more reasonable endeavor. Hence, the impetus of this blog. Well... enjoy.

The balcony is open,
Ford

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Taxi Driver - 1976 (5 of 334)


Recently caught this again on AMC... it doesn't get any easier. Bickle is already so far gone by the time we meet him, it's blissful torture watching this play out. A favorite subtle scene is when he calls Cybil Shepard on the payphone and stammers and stumbles and begs her to go out with him again... it's so painful, the camera drifts away to a shot of an empty hallway... paraphrasing Scorsese: "It was so painful, even the camera has to look away..."

SAW IT BEFORE...AND LAST WEEK!
Posted by FordOnFilm at 9:25 PM

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