Having influenced acclaimed movies such as Drive, Nightcrawler, and Joker, a neo-noir classic directed by Martin Scorsese remains as memorable as ever. The movie was recently added to a free streaming platform’s library, giving a new generation of audiences the opportunity to check it out. The film put Scorsese on the map and turned Robert De Niro into a movie star. They went on to work together on half a dozen classics, with the latest being the Oscar-nominated true-crime epic Killers of the Flower Moon.
De Niro also played a key supporting role in Joker, which was originally supposed to be produced by Scorsese. Joker divided audiences, who likened it to Scorsese’s The King of Comedy, but earned a major fan in the form of Quentin Tarantino. This makes sense, given how massively Tarantino admires Scorsese’s second collaboration with Robert De Niro, after 1973’s Mean Streets.
Released in 1976, the film was written by Paul Schrader. It also featured Harvey Keitel — who worked with Tarantino on Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs — alongside Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, and Albert Brooks. The movie now holds a “Certified Fresh” 89% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, and is regarded as one of the greatest movies of all time, and a towering achievement in the New Hollywood movement.
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8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Classic Mystery Movie Are You? Every answer counts toward the verdict.
Four films that solve a mystery four completely different ways, from a comedy with three separate endings to a thriller told backwards. One of them has been describing you all along.
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01🕯Clue1985
02🪟Rear Window1954
03📦Se7en1995
04📸Memento2000
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Exhibit 01 of 08Film Night
What kind of film night are you after? Pick the one that sounds most like you
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Exhibit 02 of 08Character Witness
How would your friends describe you? Be honest
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Exhibit 03 of 08Whereabouts
What do you do when you are stuck at home? One answer only
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Exhibit 04 of 08The Twist
How do you react to a plot twist? Pick the closest answer
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Exhibit 05 of 08The Scene
Pick a room. No wrong answers here
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Exhibit 06 of 08Testimony
What is your memory like? Pick the closest answer
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Exhibit 07 of 08Closing Argument
How do you feel about endings? Think about the last film that got you
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Exhibit 08 of 08The Verdict
What should a mystery film do to you? Last one
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Case Closed Verdict Your Mystery Movie Is
🕯 Clue Jonathan Lynn · 1985 You are the most fun thing in the room, and you are not remotely in control of it.
Clue is a murder mystery built from a board game, played at farce speed by one of the best comic ensembles ever assembled, and it refuses to commit to a single answer. That is you: loud, quick, impossible to plan around, and the reason anybody had a good time. Case Notes
You keep the energy up and the plan loose, and people have a much better evening because of
it.
Three different endings were sent to different cinemas in 1985, so the answer depended on
which screen you walked into.
It flopped completely, found its audience on video, and went back into cinemas for its
fortieth anniversary with the endings randomised again.
Your flaw is that chaos is excellent company and a terrible plan.
Chaotic Quick Sociable Unserious
🪟 Rear Window Alfred Hitchcock · 1954 You watch, and you notice the thing everybody else walks past.
Hitchcock trapped James Stewart in one room with a broken leg and a view of his neighbours, and built an entire thriller out of a man looking out of a window and being right. You are the one who clocks the detail nobody announced, and you are usually correct before you can prove it. Case Notes
You are quietly the most observant person in your circle and you notice changes before
anybody mentions them.
The courtyard was one of the largest sets ever built at Paramount, with thirty-one
apartments and working plumbing.
It was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director and is still taught as the
cleanest thriller ever constructed.
Your risk is that watching and doing something about it are not the same, and you know it.
Observant Patient Curious Detached
📦 Se7en David Fincher · 1995 You take things on, and you do not put them down.
Fincher made a serial killer film where the detectives are losing the entire time, shot it so dark the studio complained, and refused to change an ending that everybody told him would sink the film. You have that same refusal in you, and it has cost you more than you let on. Case Notes
You are the one who keeps going after everybody else has accepted it cannot be solved.
New Line wanted a different ending and Brad Pitt reportedly refused to make the film without
the one they shot.
It turned Fincher from the director who had a bad time on Alien 3 into the defining thriller
director of his generation.
Your weakness is that carrying something this long does real damage, and you are usually the
last to notice.
Relentless Serious Principled Haunted
📸 Memento Christopher Nolan · 2000 Nobody can quite follow your thinking, and you get there anyway.
Nolan told the story backwards, so the audience knows as little as the man at the centre of it does, and the whole film becomes an argument about how much of what you believe you simply decided to believe. You arrive at the right answer by a route nobody else would have taken. Case Notes
You work things out sideways, and explaining the route takes longer than the answer did.
It was nominated for Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing in 2002 and won neither,
which still annoys people.
It cost around nine million dollars, made over five times that, and built the career that
led to everything after.
Your flaw is trusting your own version of events slightly more than the evidence supports.
Lateral Private Analytical Unreadable
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Clue
Rear Window
Se7en
Memento
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Here’s Where You Can Watch the Neo-Noir Classic for Free
We’re talking, of course, about Taxi Driver. Now ranked 143rd on IMDb’s list of the top 250 movies of all time, Taxi Driver follows a lonely man (De Niro) who prowls the streets of New York and turns into a vigilante after witnessing a young girl (Foster) being preyed upon. Produced on a reported budget of less than $2 million, the movie made around $30 million at the box office and caused an uproar over its violence.
Scorsese famously butted heads with the studio over the graphic content, and had to make changes to the final sequence in order to avoid an X rating. Taxi Driver remains etched in infamy for having influenced criminals and producing one of the most memorable quotes in film history: “You talkin’ to me?” In his non-fiction book “Cinema Speculation,” Tarantino called it “the greatest first-person character study ever committed to film.”
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