Picture: Nothing, not even reading about the film’s meticulous 4K restoration, could have prepared me for how absolutely astounding Taxi Driver looks on Blu-ray.

Eventually coming to the conclusion that somebody – namely himself – needs to clean it up. As he searches for his place in the world, driving through the night, Travis becomes more and more repulsed by the filth that litters the streets and people who inhabit it. De Niro gives an astonishing performance as Travis Bickle, a chronic insomniac and rather aimless Vietnam War veteran who gets a job driving a cab in New York in an effort to break out of his lonely existence. Which is quite something when you consider that this 1976 masterpiece had to beat out Raging Bull and Goodfellas for that particular honour. Taxi Driver remains the highpoint of Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro many cinematic collaborations. Following on from our exclusive interview with Sony Pictures’ film restoration guru Grover Crisp, today we’re taking a look at the upcoming Blu-ray release of one of the films he recently worked on – Martin Scorsese’s controversial ’70s classic Taxi Driver.

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