1976 1h 53m Martin Scorsese

Taxi Driver

Name: Taxi Driver
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 1976
Rating: 8.2
Cast: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel

★ 8.2 IMDb

Drama Crime

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.

Writer Paul Schrader

Cast Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel

Music Bernard Herrmann

Essays and Criticism

On this film

Taxi Driver by Brad Westcott, Reverse Shot Hell on Wheels by Jonathan Rosenbaum

On Martin Scorsese

Scorsese’s Men: Melancholia and the Mob by Chris Long, Cineaste Hollywood’s New Yorker: The Making of Martin Scorsese by Michael Meneghetti, Screening the Past Martin Scorsese: ‘What is it about us as human beings that allows for… by Sophie Monks Kaufman, Little White Lies

In conversation with other films

American Cinema and the Psychotic Holocaust Survivor by Marat Grinberg, Cineaste Movie Poster of the Week: “Khrustalyov, My Car!” and the Posters of Andrzej Klimowski by Adrian Curry, MUBI Notebook

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