Taxi Driver
1976 | Crime | USA | Directed by Martin Scorsese
Overview
Travis Bickle drives nights through steam and rain and hates what he sees. De Niro gaunt journal, the mirror monologue improvised, a mohawk finale of violence Scorsese shot like a pressure valve releasing. Won the top prize at Cannes. Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader made loneliness murderous, warping the vigilante genre into character study. Bernard Herrmann final score: saxophone and venom.
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