Considering how fine the Martin Scorsese-approved Blu-ray looks, it’s worth asking what, if anything, had been done to supplement Taxi Driver‘s somewhat inevitable 40th-anniversary release — and so it’s fitting that the 1976 classic hasn’t been given a new coating for some 2016 showings. Along with a preview, Screen Daily offers word that the traveling tour that begins in Austria and Switzerland this month “will take place from the 2011 digital restoration of the film carried out by Sony Pictures, following a full 4K workflow from the original camera negative under the guidance of Martin Scorsese and Michael Chapman.”
All of which only means that those who want to see the Taxi Driver they know and love in a theater (and those who aren’t 35mm purists) should have an opportunity — supposing it comes their way. Theatrical and festival showings are to hit other sections of Europe, Australia, and Latin America this year, the U.K. may be getting a look in 2017, and the rest has yet to be unveiled, or perhaps yet to so much as be planned. If you’re local to these spots, consider this a notice.
See the preview and poster below, along with a TODAY segment about the cast’s reunion below:
