The scum of New York in 4K

Taxi Driver (1976)

I got the chance to see the newly restored version of this in glorious 4K and it surely was a beauty. What's so special about 4K then? Well, as Finland is always quite late in the development, all but one of the digital projectors in Finnish theatres are 2K, though I think that's the case in many other countries as well. 2K is a bit bigger than your full HD resolution, 4K is twice as much, so you can watch it on a huge screen quite close and still won't spot the pixels. The thing however is that the only 4K projector in Finland at the moment is at the National Film Archive's theatre and it's a small one with only about 60 seats, so the screen is quite small as well. So the resolution didn't shine through as much as it could have. At first I was a bit worried if the picture would have been over processed to give it an unnatural face lift, but luckily that wasn't the case. It looks like the very first film print of the movie probably looked. The grainy characteristic of the film stock is still there and it still looks gritty as it is supposed to, only it's clean of dirt and the colors are bright again. So definitely it looked stunning. Enough of the pixels and on to the movie itself. I actually have no idea what to say about it that hasn't been said already a million times. It's one of the best movies ever made and one of those movies that are considered as general knowledge. Anyone who likes to watch movies should already have seen it. This was probably my sixth or seventh time I saw it and I must say it hadn't lost a bit of it's power and actually I noticed even some new nuances in it. That's what makes a brilliant movie, you can experience it again. I mean you can of course watch a movie many times, but only a few movies you can experience again even though you know every shot by heart. It's a master class on direction, the cast is superb, the music is absolutely brilliant and the mood is just unbeatable. A true classic and one of the best movies ever made. If you haven't seen it yet, don't tell anyone to avoid embarrasment and go see it as soon as possible.
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