Taxi Driver Two (1987)
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.
Director: George Barber
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Nathan Aris as |
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Roderick Coyne as |
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Richard Edwards as |
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Dominic Hawksley as |
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Johnny Morris as Self |
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Steve O'Dowell as |
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Neil Packham as |
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Nick Teare as |
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Baz Van Dam as |
| Directing | George Barber | Director |
| Editing | George Barber | Editor |
| Writing | George Barber | Writer |
| Production | Maria C. Dolores | Producer |
| Production | Peter Fowler | Producer |
| Production | Colin MacCabe | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Arabella Bedini | Music |