Taxi Driver Two

Taxi Driver Two

0 | 1987-01-01 |

This revolves around Tim West, an advertising executive who is developing a Channel 4 programme on cooking for terrorists. Disillusioned by the hyper-reality of the media world, he joins Robert de Niro evening classes, but also falls under the pastoral influence of Johnny Morris. From the opening images of night-time, car-ridden streets accompanied by languorous sax on the soundtrack, through to the sub-Chandleresque voice-over narration, Taxi Driver II strikes you with its clever knowingness. But it's more than just a clever nod in the direction of contemporary film noir, just as it's more than an incestuous joke at the expense of the London based media world: it's a telling comment on the contemporary media culture of postmodernism.

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George Barber Director
George Barber Editor
George Barber Writer
Maria C. Dolores Producer
Peter Fowler Producer
Colin MacCabe Executive Producer
Arabella Bedini Music

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