Friday Night Freak Show – Taxi Driver
5906 W Vliet St
Milwaukee
Wisconsin 53208
WMSE 91.7FM and The Times Cinema are teaming up to bring you Martin Scorsese’s TAXI DRIVER, featuring an unforgettable tour-de-force performance by Robert De Niro. Doors and DJ spin at 8PM. Film at 9PM. All tickets are $5.
There has never been a more depraved antihero than Travis Bickle, the cab-driving sociopath with a gun fetish and a hatred for scum. Throughout the film, he stalks New York City’s 42nd Street district, catching matinee screenings of porno flicks and struggling to connect with another soul in the wretched insect-hive that was ‘70s Manhattan.
The seedy script from Paul Schrader (ROLLING THUNDER, OBSESSION, AMERICAN GIGOLO) and the direction from a young Scorsese create the definitive portrait of New York City as the center of sleaze, a city bubbling up with the kind wretched characters and establishments that would give Satan heartburn. DeNiro’s Bickle is a brilliant portrait of extreme alienation; the score from legendary composer Bernard Herrmann – his last – is perfect; Michael Chapman’s camerawork makes sidewalks look subterranean.