SESSION: Sunday 27th September at 7pm



Taxi Driver – 50th Anniversary

(1976, dir. Martin Scorsese, w/ Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd)

Travis Bickle is an ex-Marine and Vietnam War veteran living in New York City. As he suffers from insomnia, he spends his time working as a taxi driver at night, watching porn movies at seedy cinemas during the day, or thinking about how the world, New York in particular, has deteriorated into a cesspool. He's a loner who has strong opinions about what is right and wrong with mankind. For him, the one bright spot in New York humanity is Betsy, a worker on the presidential nomination campaign of Senator Charles Palantine. He becomes obsessed with her. After an incident with her, he believes he has to do whatever he needs to make the world a better place in his opinion. One of his priorities is to be the savior for Iris, a twelve-year-old runaway and prostitute who he believes wants out of the profession and under the thumb of her pimp and lover Matthew. (IMDB)

FILM INFO 4.14.14.14.1(IMDB rating)

The Passenger

(1975, dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, w/ Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry)

The Passenger will start at approximately 9:20pm, and finish at approximately 11:32pm.

A journalist researching a documentary in the Sahara Desert meets a gunrunner who dies suddenly. When the journalist notices that they have a similar appearance, he assumes the recently deceased's identity and accepts the consequences that it brings. (IMDB)

FILM INFO 3.83.83.83.8(IMDB rating)