Critics' Pics: Selections from AFI and Sight & Sound
Travis Bickle: an anti-hero's anti-hero. Experience the unsettling on-screen alchemy of Scorsese and Schrader's first cinematic collaboration.
Winner of the prestigious Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival (1976) and nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Taxi Driver stars Robert De Niro in Martin Scorsese's classic film of a psychotic New York cabbie driven to violence by loneliness and desperation. Co-starring Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, and Cybill Shepherd. [114 min; crime, drama; English and Spanish with English subtitles]
"The blend of Schrader's script, Scorsese's direction, and De Niro's performance is both riveting and unnerving. A film that will stay with you forever." — William Thomas, Empire
"Scorsese's seductive, dreamlike imagery and Schrader's voiceover narration draw the audience into Bickle's head and reveal the world through his eyes, which see only ugliness and filth." — Scott Tobias, The A.V. Club
"Like any genuine nightmare, Taxi Driver induces terror because its hideousness grows out of pure, if awful, human truth." — Frank Rich, New York Post
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