Taxi Driver (1976)

Essential Viewing

USA

Feature Film
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Paul Schrader
Cinematographer: Michael Chapman
Composer: Bernard Herrmann
Cast: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle, Martin Scorsese

Scorsese’s brilliant masterpiece, following an emotionally disturbed social misfit through the streets of nocturnal New York, is, with Herrmann’s final and perhaps greatest score and De Niro’s incredible performance, a violently insightful portrait of loneliness and isolation. Iain.Stott