Arclight Hollywood
6360 Sunset Blvd
323.464.4226
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Taxi Driver
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Monday Jan 14, 2008 (8pm)
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$11
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Martin Scorsese's masterwork of messianic naivety and existential angst, Taxi Driver features an end-of-the-road Robert De Niro in his true star turn. A roiling diary-entry diatribe against modern day depravity, the film documents Travis Bickle's (De Niro) newfound fury at New York's filth and his daily descent into a would-be Wilkes Booth. Up to its baroque climax, everything about Scorsese's watershed seems stressed with a pressing and primitive passion, from his adroit direction to De Niro's undeniably awesome assumption of everyman alienation. A simmering symphony drummed up by Bernard Hermann and the verité visuals of the contaminated megacity are persuasively visceral in their paranoid and perverse prettiness.
