As Ebert put it, Taxi Driver is “a hell, from the opening shot of a cab emerging from stygian clouds of steam to the climactic killing scene in which the camera finally looks straight down.”
Everything’s extraordinary—De Niro, Foster, Shepherd; Chapman’s chemtones & POV shots; Herrmann’s phenomenal score; and Schrader’s script that distills a moment in American history into the story of a damaged and lost individual.
Plus, the 50th Anniversary 4K Restoration is gorgeous.
Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese, 1976.
Watched at the Metropol theater on October 19, 2026, in its original language.