Taxi Driver
Saturday 21st March 4:00 PM - Theatre By The Lake
Director:Martin Scorsese
Cert:18 Year: 1976 Length:114mins
Country:US
Focus on 1976
Jodie Foster Retrospective
In the 50th Anniversary year of its release and as part of the Jodie Foster retrospective at KFF 2026, Taxi Driver continues to inspire, cause controversy and be on Greatest Films of All Time lists.
Starring Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle, the eponymous taxi driver and an insomniac Vietnam War veteran. 12 year-old Jodie Foster is cast as Iris, a prostitute, who encounters Travis along with many other characters on his mission to clean up the streets of 1970s New York, where he plies his trade.
Winner of the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival 1976.
Critics
“Taxi Driver is so volatile it nearly explodes from the screen. Under Martin Scorsese's brilliant direction, it works a dramatic tension that is inescapable, carefully, systematically straitjacketing its audience in the problems of its central character.”
Tickets
Tickets and Passes are now on sale with exclusive Priority Booking for Festival Pass holders and Keswick Film Club Members. Individual Festival Tickets for non Keswick Film Club members will go on sale on 12 February.
Passes and Priority Booking now available from the Alhambra
Trailer
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