Taxi Driver Two (1987)
Movie
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.
Directed By : George Barber
Status : Released
Released : Jan 1, 1987
Length : 7 minutes
Cast
Crew
- Director : George Barber
- Editor : George Barber
- Writer : George Barber
- Producer : Maria C. Dolores
- Producer : Peter Fowler
- Executive Producer : Colin MacCabe
- Music : Arabella Bedini