Film
Taxi Driver
- 2PM
- 7PM
In Travis Bickle—the increasingly unhinged cabbie on a crusade to “wash all the scum off the streets” of 1970s New York City—Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro created a chilling, disturbingly relevant portrait of white rage, racist-misogynist right-wing backlash, and toxic masculinity in the post-Nixon-era. The film’s undiminished power to shock is enhanced by the nightmare expressionism of its hallucinatory imagery.
Introduction by series programmer Ashley Clark
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