Jodie Foster
Alicia Christian Foster, better known as Jodie Foster (born November 19, 1962), is an American actor, film director and producer.
Foster began acting in commercials at 3 years old, and her first significant role came in the 1976 film Taxi Driver as the preteen prostitute, Iris, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Read the rest of this entry »
Albert Brooks
Albert Brooks (born July 22, 1947) is an American actor, writer, comedian and director. He received an Academy Award nomination in 1987 for his role in Broadcast News. His voice acting credits include as Marlin, the clownfish father in Finding Nemo and as a recurring guest voice actor for The Simpsons on TV, and in The Simpsons Movie. Read the rest of this entry »
Cybill Shepherd
Cybill Lynne Shepherd (born February 18, 1950) is an American actress, singer and former fashion model.
Her best known roles include starring as Jacy in The Last Picture Show, Maddie Hayes in Moonlighting, as Cybill Sheridan in Cybill, as Betsy in Taxi Driver and as Phyllis Kroll in The L Word. She recently starred in the [...]
Ford’s Epic of Honor
Warner Bros.
Director–John Ford
Starring John Wayne, Vera Miles
Westerns 119 min
John Ford’s 1956 classic was a stunning fable (from a script by Frank Nugent) about the American West as breeding ground for codes of honor and moral madness alike. John Wayne gives the performance of his life as an Indian fighter so bent with hatred that the [...]
The Cad
Independent
Director–Rene Clement
Starring Alain Delon, Bill Kearns, Marie Laforet
Thriller 118 min
Is it a coincidence that recent re-releases of great films from the past (Belle de Jour, Taxi Driver, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) are concurrent with increasing evidence that hardly anyone in this country remembers how to make a great film anymore?
Taxi Singer
Director–Ulu Grosbard
Starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Mare Winningham
Drama 117 min
Jennifer Jason Leigh inspires memories of Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver and Raging Bull with her fearless performances in this Ulu Grosbard (True Confessions) film about a talentless junkie who cannot free herself of a jealous fixation with her singing-songwriting sister (Mare Winningham).
Taxi Driver (1976)
Some time back to spend or not 2 seconds, and enter the world of dreams. other hand, costs us a lot of power to turn off the brain for the day tomorrow. Before this attack the question is: What tackle insomnia?
Counting sheep, reading a good book, or turn on the TV is what [...]
Mel’s Quiet Artistry
Director–Richard Donner
Starring Julia Roberts, Mel Gibson
Action 135 min
Jerry (Mel Gibson) is a chattering New York taxi driver who buttonholes unsuspecting passengers with off-the-wall theories about one government plot or another: How those odd-looking new $100 bills carry monitors that track the movements of citizens,
The Hard Road to Grace
Paramount
Director–Martin Scorsese
Starring John Goodman, Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, Ving Rhames
Drama 118 min
All films deal with conflict, and most films portray characters who suffer in varying degrees for various reasons. But rarely do films explore suffering itself as a human experience, as a passage through which determined people can be reborn, clearheaded and blessedly unafflicted.
A Trip to Hell
Columbia
Director–Joel Schumacher
Starring Catherine Keener, Joaquin Phoenix, Nicolas Cage
Drama Thriller 123 min
Andrew Kevin Walker’s bold script for the 1995 film Se7en was extremely well-served by David Fincher’s penetrating, visionary direction. A perfect marriage of fantastic gimmick and mesmerizing fatalism, Se7en was the true ’90s heir to Alfred Hitchock’s Psycho: a film noir that led us down [...]
