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A New Generation of Photographers

Juan Bufill

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A New Generation of Photographers has three principal aims. Firstly, it is a statement about a new...

Qm2: A Photographic Journey

Chris Frame and Rachelle Cross

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By the 1970s it looked as if QE2 would be the last of the great transatlantic ocean liners. However,...

The North End Revisited: Photographs

John Paskievich, Stephen Osborne, George Melnyk and Alison Gillmor

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Winnipeg's North End has informed the Canadian mythology and influenced the national psyche. The...

Walker Evans

David Campany, Clement Cheroux, Svetlana Alpers and Anne Bertrand

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Walker Evans was one of the most important American photographers of the 20th century. His focus on...

Derek Jarman's Sketchbooks

Stephen Farthing, Ed Webb-Ingall and Tilda Swinton

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There are few more complete examples of an artist's record of their own life than the intimately...

Scholarly Communication at the Crossroads in China

Jingfeng Xia

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Scholarly Communication at the Crossroads in China follows the dichotomy paradox to focus on both...

Goin' Crazy with Sam Peckinpah and All Our Friends

Max Evans and Robert Nott

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Almost as famous for the legendary excesses of his personal life as for his films, Sam Peckinpah...

Activist Film Festivals: Towards a Political Subject

Sonia Tasc n and Tyson Wils

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Film festivals are an ever-growing part of the film industry, but most considerations of them focus...

After Piaget

Eduardo Marty and Cintia Rodryguez

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After Piaget proves that Jean Piaget's work is critical for understanding some of the most current...

Michael Phillips recommended Taxi Driver (1976) in Movies (curated)

Taxi Driver (1976)

1976 | Thriller

8.5

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"So here’s where, for me, it comes down to either the second Godfather, Taxi Driver, which is [Martin] Scorsese’s best film, I think, or one of two or three Altmans, I guess. And of those three, I’d probably go with Taxi Driver. It’s pretty great, and it’s one of the most dangerous films ever to come out of this country, I think. And it’s got great performances, and it’s got such electric ambiguity in what it’s saying about this guy. For me, that film marks, probably, the end point of that great period of the 1970s. So many fine directors; Altman, Coppola, the freedom of expression. I almost didn’t have the resources to deal with Taxi Driver when I first saw it . I don’t go back to it all the time, because it’s such a handful, but I think that’s Scorsese’s best film."

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