"All the animals come out at night."

Rating: 10/10 (1 July 2010)

A lonely Vietnam veteran (Robert De Niro) becomes a New York taxi driver and allows the violence and squalor around him to explode in his mind. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won the Palme d'Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.
Taxi Driver is the epitome of the sordid realism of the 1970s, this unlovely but brilliantly made film haunts the mind and paints a most vivid picture of a hell on earth. Bernard Herrmann's haunting, almost slurred music captures the desolate mood to perfection. The film gained notoriety when John Hinckley, Jr. confessed that it was his obsession with Foster's role that made him attempt to assassinate Ronald Reagan in 1981.