Sony Pictures Home Entertainment are plucking Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver starring Robert De Niro out of their Columbia Classics Volume 2 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray box set and giving it an individual release on June 25th. Unlike the box set, this separate release that fans have been waiting for will come in a SteelBook case.
Everything else about this release is identical to what was offered in the Columbia Classics Volume 2 4K UHD set. Here’s a recap of what that entailed across two discs.
4K ULTRA HD DISC
- Restored from the original camera negative, presented in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision
- English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio + mono DTS-HD
- Special Features:
- Making Taxi Driver Documentary
- Storyboard to Film Comparisons with Martin Scorsese Introduction
- Animated Photo Galleries
- 20th Anniversary Re-Release Trailer
BLU-RAY DISC
- Feature presented in high definition, sourced from the 4K master
- English 5.1
- Special Features:
- 40-Minute Taxi Driver Q&A featuring Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster and Many More Recorded Live at the Beacon Theatre in New York City at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival
- Commentary with Director Martin Scorsese and Writer Paul Schrader Recorded by the Criterion Collection
- Commentaries by Writer Paul Schrader and by Professor Robert Kolker
- Martin Scorsese on Taxi Driver
- Influence and Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
- Producing Taxi Driver
- God’s Lonely Man
- Taxi Driver Stories
- Travis’ New York
- Travis’ New York Locations
- Theatrical Trailer
For those keeping track, after Taxi Driver on 4K UHD arrives there are only two titles left from the Columbia Classics Volume 2 that need individual releases: The Social Network and Stripes.
