Taxi Driver

Wed, Apr 26

7:30 pm Selects

Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights (meaning arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating, the movie starts after midnite)!

TAXI DRIVER is a terrifying portrait on the edge of madness. Selected and introduced by Kasra Farahani (director of TILT at Tribeca Film Festival 2017).

Director: Martin Scorsese Run Time: 113 min. Format: DCP Rating: R Release Year: 1976

Starring: Albert Brooks, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster, Robert De Niro

TAXI DRIVER is a terrifying portrait on the edge of madness.

Adrift in New York City after the Vietnam War, socially awkward loner Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) takes up a job prowling the city’s streets as a taxi driver to deal with his insomnia. Exposed to no one but a rogues gallery of pimps, hustlers and perverts, Travis begins seeing the world as putrid and in need of cleansing. Through awkward, fumbling attempts at romance, Travis isolates himself further, leaving him alone to mull over his obsessions: guns, a phony presidential candidate, and a roughed-up underage prostitute.

Martin Scorsese’s masterwork, Taxi Driver is a brute of a film, one that scrapes characters from the gutter of New York City and rakes them out into the sun to see how they react. Essential on every level.

In celebration of the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and its Midnight selection of horror, thriller, and cult cinema, Nitehawk and Tribeca have collaborated on a three-night retrospective series of influential Midnight films chosen by genre filmmakers debuting new films at Tribeca. Kevin Phillips (SUPER DARK TIMES), Kasra Farahani (THE GOOD NEIGHBOR), and Justin Benson & Aaron Morehead (RESOLUTION, SPRING) have selected their favorite classic Midnight movies for special Nitehawk presentations during this year’s Tribeca Film Festival.