He'll get you away faster than anyone else on wheels. Ryan O'Neal plays the driver - an ... more
ice-cool getaway ace for hire by whoever can afford his crash course skills. Bruce Dern is the detective - a man obsessed with arresting the speed demon at any cos...
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The time is the present. The Driver (Ryan O'Neal) is the best wheel man for hire. His work ... more
in driving getaway cars are exhibitions in excellence, works of art. The Detective (Bruce Dern) is the top cop of the force. Nobody he tracks down ever eludes him. Except the Driver.As the Driver pulls off another job, the Detective lays in wait for him. But the Driver has already planted his alibi, and is one step ahead of him. Through his operative, the Connection (Ronee Blakely), he hires the mysterious young woman, the Player (Isabelle Adjani), to lead the Detective astray.
Driving his bus through Buckfast-fuelled turf wars like a giant lint-roller attracting all ... more
the mank and dirt the city has to offer, life isn't easy for a Glasgow night bus driver. This title provides an insight into a bizarre underworld of villainy and madness and tells stories and illustrations of a Glasgow.
Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen ... more
years. So she leaves everything behind her transforms herself into a laughing garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime. But her search for adventure sex and the obsessional experience takes on a far darker significance as she heads on a journey of self-destruction. Infinity and eternity attend Lise's last terrible day in an unnamed southern city as she meets her fate.
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The delivery of two three four or even five drugs in the same syringe is now considered ... more
routine practice. A continuous subcutaneous infusion is an effective method of drug administration that is particularly suited to palliative care when other routes are inappropriate. Palliative care patients frequently have multiple symptoms that require the use of numerous drugs; as the patient's condition deteriorates the oral route is often no longer suitable and the syringe driver ensures continued symptom control. This route increases patient comfort as it avoids the need for repeated injections plasma concentration levels of drugs remain constant and it maintains the patient's sense of independence. There have been several developments in this field since the first edition of this book was published including new devices and drugs. The compatibility data are greatly expanded covering an extensive list of drug combinations. The book consists of four chapters. The first chapter provides an overview of syringe drivers and continuous subcutaneous infusions including detailed set up information.The second chapter provides detailed referenced information about drugs that are likely to be delivered via a continuous subcutaneous infusion. The third chapter concentrates on the use of continuous subcutaneous infusions to control specific symptoms. Finally an extensive list of compatibility tables is located in the fourth chapter.
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Following in the curmudgeonly footsteps of "One Grump or Two" "The Grumpy Driver's ... more
Handbook" is a celebration of all that is miserable and tedious on the road. Driving brings out the worst in even the most mild mannered individual and so a book on the worst habits in motoring and the 'joys' of car ownership is the natural gift for the career grump. Spurred on by endless roadworks coned-off lanes BMW drivers white van men speed cameras lunatic cyclists rude taxi drivers and kamikazi motorcyclists the grump has an ocean of opportunity for expression. "The Grumpy Driver's Handbook" (including "The Highway Grump") tackles the evils of lane swappers caravan owners bumper huggers rubber neckers light jumpers hard shoulder cruisers sleeping policemen and speaking policemen.
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This title is a very special one for the real railway enthusiast. Come to the driver's can ... more
and watch three different railway lines from the point of view of the engine driver. Watch him with his work and enjoy the marvellous sounds of these steam engines. With each of the three engines you have a technical description, a map of the route and a slide show as well. This first title covers three different types of steam engines built around 1900.
Production Year: 1977 - Action/Adventure - Director: Clint Eastwood - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring:Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney
Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
Action/Adventure - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Jack Ging, Marla Heasley, Lance Legault, Melinda Culea, Mr T, Dwight Schultz, Dirk Benedict, George Peppard, Carl Franklin
Production Year: 1964 - Action/Adventure - Director: Cyril Endfield - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring:Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green
Advantages: Incredible direction, performances and writing. Disadvantages: None.
A loose remake of John Ford's The Searchers, Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver tells the tale of Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro in an iconic, legendary, career-defining performance), a Vietnam veteran serving as a night-shift cabbie on the streets of New York City. An unhinged, socially inept loner, Travis, having been rejected by the woman he has fallen in love - or lust - with, attempts first to assassinate the presidential candidate for whom said woman was working, and then to rescue from a life of prostitution a 13 year old girl by the name of Iris.
Alongside the likes of Abel Ferrara's Driller Killer, Walter Hill's The Warriors and Scorsese's own Mean Streets, Taxi Driver helped to cement in the public imagination the image of New York as a dangerous, sin-sodden, nocturnal netherworld populated primarily by pimps, hustlers, hookers ...
Advantages: Scorsese, De Niro, Hermann, Schrader, Chapman Disadvantages: None.
Martin Scorsese's TAXI DRIVER was released in 1976 and for me, like millions of film buffs, is the greatest film ever made, elevated above every character study since through its fevered, paranoid, stark and unforgettable imagery of one man's vision of hell on earth, an entirely plausible New York.
Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle is a "cabbie" by night, insomniac by day. With long drawn-out nights looking through his windshield at New York's famous steaming sewers, rain-slicked filthy streets and glaring neon lights, and only his deteriorating thoughts for companionship, an alienated Travis learns to detest his surrounding world and those who decay it, working through his boiling contempt as he takes the truly detestable people of his city ("whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies") to their destinations. When ...
Charles_Strickland 22.09.2006 (28.07.2007)
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I played this not long after playing GTA3 as I was hoping for something of a similar style. Bad mistake to make.
Driver is exactly what is says. It's purely driving to certain points to complete your mission. You should generally avoid the police as chances are you will be speeding and they're far from easy to shake. The most disappointing thing is that although you're told what the mission is you don't see much story even in the shoddy cutscenes and it doesn't even feel like you're taking part in one.
Driver consists of you driving from one point to another then back. That is repeated throughout the entire game and it never changes, it's completely and utterly mundane. At the time I played it the graphics were very poor, at the time of release I have no idea how good those graphics would be considered to be.
Overall ...
CloudRuler 13.09.2008
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A brilliantly contrived battle of wits between a highly professional get-away driver and an obsessive cop.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT; TECHNICOLOR DISTRIBUTION SERVICES, WARNER HOME VIDEO; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date
23/10/2006, 19/04/2004
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
OPTD 0646, D 038191
Barcode
5060034576990, 7321900381918
Cinematographer
Philip H. Lathrop
Director of Photography
Philip H. Lathrop
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
8 page booklet with a biog about the film, Original Artwork Illustrations, Walter Hill filmography
Aspect Ratio
1.85 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby Digital, Mono
Dubbing Sound
Mono English
DVD Description
Ryan O'Neal stars as THE DRIVER, a conniving and talented getaway driver, and Bruce Dern as the corrupt police detective obsessed with capturing him. With breathtaking car chases and a terrific climax, this is a simple and thrilling cat and mouse game. The two single-minded characters, with otherwise bleak lives, must perpetually out-smart the other in this lean, clever and compelling thriller.
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