Egyptian Theatre (Venue Partner)
6712 Hollywood Blvd
323.466.3456
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Poster-Taxi Driver
- When
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Saturday Feb 25 (7:30pm)
- Where
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Directions: The Egyptian Theatre is just east of Highland Avenue between Las Palmas Avenue and McCadden Place. Metro Stop: Hollywood & Highland
- Price
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$7-11
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“Martin Scorsese's masterwork of messianic naivety and existential angst, Taxi Driver (1976) features an end-of-the-road Robert De Niro in his true star turn. A roiling diary-entry diatribe against modern depravity, the film documents Travis Bickle's (De Niro) 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 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 visceral in their perverse paranoia.”
Jason Jude Chan, Flavorpill
Taxi Driver, 1976, 113 min. Director Martin Scorsese's classic film is still as potent as ever. Cabbie Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro's seminal pistol-packing, insomniac loner) drives through the open sewer that is mid-1970s Manhattan with its pimps (Harvey Keitel), hookers (Jodie Foster), politicos (Cybill Shepherd and Albert Brooks) and other scummy creatures of the neon wilderness. With a ferocious script by Paul Schrader. (dcp)
