Taxi Driver | 50th Anniversary Screening
TAXI DRIVER
(Taxi Driver – 50th Anniversary Screening | in English with Hungarian subtitles)
Color, subtitled, American film, 110 min, 1976
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd
***Not recommended for viewers under 18.***
Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), a Vietnam War veteran, works the night shift as a taxi driver in New York City. Withdrawn, violent, and misanthropic, he is unable to process the horrors of the war. He wards off insomnia by driving, yet he cannot escape his obsessive thoughts. He also struggles to relate to women; his first date with Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), a campaign worker for a senator, ends awkwardly. He fails to persuade Iris (Jodie Foster), a child prostitute, to leave the streets and return to her parents.
He finds the violence surrounding him increasingly intolerable—a force he cannot combat with words, only with violence of his own. He buys weapons, determined to embody the image of a relentless, solitary hero for one final act...
Schedule
SCREENING TIME:
Monday, September 14 at 9:00 PM
Ticket price: 2,900 HUF
Tickets are not for assigned seats; seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Doors open approximately 5 minutes before the screening.
Tickets:
1) On-site: weekdays 3:00 PM – 9:00 PM,
weekends 1:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Bem Cinema
In January 2016, the 108-year-old Bem Cinema will reopen its doors to the public, in a new way never seen before in Hungary: as a cinema of cult and classic films (no harm!), or as the educated French say (if you know your English): as a "repertory cinema".
