The album was meant to be a portrait of jazz in cinema history, a way to chronicle the evolution of jazz score from the late 1940s to present day, and features highly influential themes from classics like Anatomy of a Murder, Taxi Driver and seminal noir The Man With the Golden Arm.
He sees himself as a gangster ready to win respect by killing a cop, manically practising the role of Travis Bickle from the film Taxi Driver in the mirror secretly.
One of the films in the series was featured in the movie Taxi Driver, in a scene where Robert De Niro takes Cybil Shepherd to a cinema showing the film on their first date.
Makes references to many classic horror films including Taxi Driver, Friday the 13th (1980 film), The Silence of the Lambs (film), The Evil Dead, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Night of the Living Dead.
At the Berlinale 2010, Lars von Trier, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro announced plans to work on a remake of Scorsese's film Taxi Driver.
This is a version of the insanity defense and considered a descendant of the Taxi Driver defense of John Hinckley, one of the first defenses based on blurring reality with the movies.
It is an independent production and is the latest installment in Schrader's night workers series of films, starting with Taxi Driver in 1976, followed by American Gigolo in 1980 and Light Sleeper in 1992.
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Schrader considers it one of four similar films, which he calls "double bookends": Taxi Driver, bookended by Light Sleeper, and American Gigolo bookended by The Walker.
He worked initially as a taxi driver for a year from 1978 before working as a graphic designer until 1994 when he became as a computer systems consultant with Apple Macintosh Computer systems, which he undertook until his election to parliament.
She was the supervising film editor on Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976), and shared in the nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Editing with Tom Rolf and Melvin Shapiro.
Her other memorable roles were in some well-known (Drama/Stage) Plays, Kalyani, Joymoti, Nimila Angko, "Taxi Driver" and "Rajpath"- one of the most famous drama-act, which made her way towards the Assamese Cinema and many more.
Paul Schrader who wrote Taxi Driver (1976) was in turn inspired by Bresson's Michel character to create Travis Bickle, Robert De Niro's antihero.
Zahida Kazmi is a Pakistani taxi driver and is known as Pakistan's first female taxi driver.
Belgian driver Bertrand Gachot missed his home Grand Prix due to being imprisoned in Britain following an incident in which he sprayed CS gas at a London taxi driver.
The 2006 Cheetham Hill terrorism arrests was an anti-terrorism operation in the United Kingdom, in which Habib Ahmed, a taxi driver, was arrested by six policemen at his home in Cheetham Hill, Manchester on 23 August 2006 on suspicion of his involvement in a plan to attack on an individual.
Two months later it was reported he had been called before Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev for a personal scolding, dismissed from the Red Army, fined 5,000 rubles, stripped of all his sporting honours, and was working as a taxi driver in Kiev.
Leo Gorcey's father, Bernard, appears as Mr. Johnson, the taxi driver.
The other three main characters are his girlfriend Cecilia Jansson, "Cilla", portrayed by Sussie Eriksson, Fredrik's friend and casual labourer Jan-Olof, portrayed by Lennart Jähkel and taxi driver Anton, portrayed by Olle Sarri.
Silsoe lived near Reading, Berkshire and was an active member of the congregation at All Saints Church, Rotherfield Peppard, acting as volunteer "taxi driver" for a number of infirm or learning disabled parishioners and serving for some years on the Parochial Church Council.
He was serving a 48 year prison sentence for a 1973 murder conviction of a taxi driver in Grayson County.
Emidio Josias "Mido" Macia (c. 1985 – 26 February 2013) was a Mozambican immigrant and taxi driver who was killed in the custody of the South African Police Service.
He saw this as a spectacular opportunity in several aspects: first, because his father was an engineer in Petrobras, but he was removed from office after the Brazilian military revolution of 1964 and turned into a taxi driver to provide his family.
Doiby ('Derby' with a thick Brooklyn accent) works as a taxi driver, mostly for the Apex Broadcasting company, where Alan Scott is employed.
Juan (Luis Brandoni), the taxi driver who brings them to the club, pays attention to the conversation of the women who from one to one counts each other their ideal of a man.
Bayu (Emir Mahira) is a sixth-year student who lives with his mother Wahyuni (Maudy Koesnaedi) and his grandfather Usman (Ikranagara); Bayu's father, an athlete turned taxi driver, died in a car accident several years before.
The shooting started on May 21 some time between 16:00 and 18:00 in a remote area near São Gonçalo do Amarante, where Ferreira killed taxi driver Francisco Marques Carneiro, who was dating his ex-wife and made comments about him being a homosexual, with a shot to the forehead.
One notable Georgian Jew is the Tamir Sapir, born Temur Sepiashvili, an immigrant taxi driver turned chemical trader turned real estate investor from New York.
Many businesses sprung up in this area, one of them run by E. F. Young, Jr., a local barber and taxi driver.
Lead actors: Július Satinský (Albert Horák), Jana Šulcová (Kateřina Horáková), Václav Postránecký (Michal Adámek), Eliška Balzerová (Dáša Adámková), Pavel Nový (Pepa Bednář), Zdena Studenková (Gábina Bednářová), Květa Fialová (grandmother), Jan Faltýnek (taxi-driver), Zuzana Gutheisová (Dášenka), Marta Buchtíková (Kačenka), Václav Korda (Míša), Cyril Křupala (Pepíno), Lukáš Pelánek (Matýsek), Marek Dvořák (Bertík)
Court was last seen by a taxi driver who dropped her in Throop, Dorset at her sister's house.
Jonny Jakobsen (born 17 November 1963) is a Swedish former Bubblegum dance/eurodance singer better known under his fictitious identity as Indian taxi driver Dr.
Gachot's season was curtailed by a two-month prison sentence, for spraying CS gas at a taxi driver in London.
After football, Gagner worked several different jobs, including as a taxi driver, security guard, and substitute teacher, before deciding to make use of his college degree in commercial art.
The EP's second song, "Taxi Driver", is from the band's third album, Self Destruction Blues, and was also released on the "Love's An Injection" EP and single.
Taxi driver Jim (Verno) befriends Ruritanian child King Ludwig while the latter is on a visit to London.
It is a collection of five vignettes, taking place during the same night, concerning the temporary bond formed between taxi driver and passenger in five cities: Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome, and Helsinki.
While working as a cleaner at Brisbane City Hall he applied for, but failed to get, a taxi driver's licence and the family moved to Melbourne where he got a job as a gardener.
Guests during the series run not only included professional musicians such as Bud & Travis, Frank D'Rone and Ray Eberle, but amateur performers such as Father Clayton Barclay (a harpsichord player), Wally Keep (a singing taxi driver), Vince Lovallo (a singing blacksmith) and Bobby Swartz (ventriloquist, operating his dummy Elmer).
Detective Emilien's wife, Petra, has just announced that she's pregnant and taxi driver Daniel (Samy Naceri) is in the midst of a relationship crisis.
After these events he's fired, but luckily for him, his friend Daniel (Samy Naceri) helps him one more time by telling him the location where the criminal is located, having been the taxi driver who drove him after he left the police station, not knowing he was a criminal.
Vinny Durand (Joe Spinell) is a New York City taxi driver who is obsessed with the international cult actress Jana Bates (Caroline Munro), who is known as the "queen of horror films".
Detective John Russo (Ben Gazzara) attempts to cheat on his girlfriend, country singer Christy Miller (Colleen Camp), with a blonde taxi driver he calls Sam (Patti Hansen), with the connivance of his colleague Arthur Brodsky (Blaine Novak).
When a taxi driver scares the mugger off by firing a revolver, the boy runs into heavy traffic on Avenida Presidente Vargas and is violently killed when he is hit by a city bus.
Born and raised in Moss Side and Salford, trained in Drama and Performing Arts at City College Manchester in 1990, Dwyer-Lynch has appeared in numerous television and theatre productions, merging both serious roles—such as "Gloucester" in Shakespeare's King Lear—to his best known comedic nice guy role in Coronation Street as Patrick Tussell the taxi-driver working for Steve McDonald (2002–2005).
A Catholic taxi driver was killed in Carrickfergus and two Protestants mistaken for Catholics were shot dead in Newtownabbey.
However, the Volkswagen Beetle kept being the Mexican taxi driver favorite, until, in 2002, a decree emerged under the mandate of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, then Mexico City's governor.
The characters include Nikolai, a Russian taxi driver (Yakov Smirnoff, whose catchphrase provided the show's title), Laslo (a retired Hungarian doctor), Ali (a Pakistani), Robert (the son of a deposed African king), Maria (the housekeeper working for a rich Beverly Hills family), Victor (a Hispanic in love with Maria) and Yung Hee (a shy Chinese woman).
Like a number of other reviewers, Kuper complains that Bawer's book is poorly documented: "Any source will do: Bawer cites Bat Ye'or, an Amsterdam taxi driver, a woman in a Swedish bar, or often no source at all."