![]() ![]() ![]() 14, 2011) – Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release Oscar winner® Martin Scorsese’s (Best Director, The Departed, 2006) classic of modern cinema, Taxi Driver, on April 5, 2011–for the first time on Blu-ray Disc–in celebration of the landmark film’s 35th anniversary. It will truly be a sight for sore eyes when Taxi Driver hits the shelves on Blu-ray April 5th. In addition to the restoration this version of Taxi Driver will also be fully loaded with special features including the Scorsese/Schrader audio commentary that has only ever been available on the laserdisc edition. What will truly separate this release from all the others that have come before is that SPHE has gone to the source and restored the film in 4K from the original camera negative. In the film, Rourke is Harry Angel, a down-and-out Brooklyn detective who is hired by the mysterious Louis Cyphre (De Niro) to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite on an odyssey that will take Angel through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo in this cult thriller that is at once eerily thrilling, darkly sensual, and completely unforgettable.Oh yes, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is finally bringing Taxi Driver to the Blu-ray format this April! Taxi Driver is considered one of the best character studies and even one of the best films of all time. Subscribe HERE to the FREE Media Play News Daily Newsletter! Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Parker ( Mississippi Burning), Angel Heart stars two-time Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro ( The Godfather Part II, Raging Bull), Primetime Emmy nominee Lisa Bonet (TV’s “The Cosby Show,” High Fidelity, Enemy of the State), Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke ( The Wrestler, Sin City, The Expendables), and Oscar and Primetime Emmy nominee Charlotte Rampling ( 45 Years, Swimming Pool, Melancholia). Writer-director Alan Parker’s 1987 psychological horror-thriller Angel Heart will arrive July 12 for the first time ever on 4K Ultra HD plus Blu-ray plus digital Steelbook from Lionsgate, exclusively at Best Buy. Angel Heart ‘Angel Heart’ 4K Steelbook Due July 12 Exclusively at Best Buy ![]()
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